Mary Coffin Ware
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Mary Coffin Ware, later known as Mary Ware Dennett, was an American suffragist, sex education reformer, and advocate for birth control and civil liberties in the early 20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary Coffin Ware canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9835081 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mary Coffin Ware Context triple: [Mary Ware Dennett, birthName, Mary Coffin Ware]
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A.
Harriet Malvina Howe
Harriet Malvina Howe was the wife of Henry Wilson, the 18th vice president of the United States, and a 19th-century American political spouse.
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B.
Sarah Towne Cloyce
Sarah Towne Cloyce was a woman accused of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials, known for surviving the ordeal and later helping to restore the reputations of the condemned.
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C.
Mary Eliza Church
Mary Eliza Church was an African American civil rights activist, educator, and suffragist who became one of the first Black women in the United States to earn a college degree and a prominent leader in the fight against racial and gender discrimination.
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D.
Mary Baker Williams
Mary Baker Williams was the wife of American planter and politician Henry Middleton, a prominent figure in colonial and early United States history.
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E.
Maria Bissell Hotchkiss
Maria Bissell Hotchkiss was an American philanthropist best known for endowing and establishing the prestigious Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mary Coffin Ware Target entity description: Mary Coffin Ware, later known as Mary Ware Dennett, was an American suffragist, sex education reformer, and advocate for birth control and civil liberties in the early 20th century.
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A.
Harriet Malvina Howe
Harriet Malvina Howe was the wife of Henry Wilson, the 18th vice president of the United States, and a 19th-century American political spouse.
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B.
Sarah Towne Cloyce
Sarah Towne Cloyce was a woman accused of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials, known for surviving the ordeal and later helping to restore the reputations of the condemned.
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C.
Mary Eliza Church
Mary Eliza Church was an African American civil rights activist, educator, and suffragist who became one of the first Black women in the United States to earn a college degree and a prominent leader in the fight against racial and gender discrimination.
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D.
Mary Baker Williams
Mary Baker Williams was the wife of American planter and politician Henry Middleton, a prominent figure in colonial and early United States history.
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E.
Maria Bissell Hotchkiss
Maria Bissell Hotchkiss was an American philanthropist best known for endowing and establishing the prestigious Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
birth control activist
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civil liberties advocate ⓘ human ⓘ sex education reformer ⓘ suffragist ⓘ |
| activePeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Mary Ware Dennett ⓘ |
| areaOfActivism |
civil liberties in the United States
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freedom of speech ⓘ reproductive rights ⓘ women's rights ⓘ |
| birthName | Mary Coffin Ware ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
White American
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linked to:
Whites
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| familyName | Ware ⓘ |
| givenName | Mary ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement |
birth control movement
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civil liberties movement ⓘ sex education reform movement ⓘ women's suffrage movement ⓘ |
| notableFor |
advocacy of birth control in the United States
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campaigns for sex education reform ⓘ participation in the American suffrage movement ⓘ work for civil liberties ⓘ |
| occupation |
activist
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sex educator ⓘ suffragist ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | progressivism ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Mary Coffin Ware Description of subject: Mary Coffin Ware, later known as Mary Ware Dennett, was an American suffragist, sex education reformer, and advocate for birth control and civil liberties in the early 20th century.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.