Vivian
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Vivian "Buster" Burey Marshall was a civil rights activist and the first wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Vivian canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T623884 — 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: Vivian Context triple: [Vivian "Buster" Burey Marshall, givenName, Vivian]
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A.
Vivian Shapiro
Vivian Shapiro is an American psychologist and academic known for her work in developmental and clinical psychology, and as the wife of former Princeton University president Harold T. Shapiro.
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B.
Maxine
Maxine is a character featured in the film "Once Again."
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C.
Bernice
Bernice is a feminine given name most notably borne by Bernice King, the daughter of civil rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King.
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D.
Linda
Linda is a feminine given name of Germanic origin that became widely used in English-speaking countries in the 20th century.
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E.
Patricia
Patricia is a feminine given name of Latin origin, commonly used in English-speaking countries.
- 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: Vivian Target entity description: Vivian "Buster" Burey Marshall was a civil rights activist and the first wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.
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A.
Vivian Shapiro
Vivian Shapiro is an American psychologist and academic known for her work in developmental and clinical psychology, and as the wife of former Princeton University president Harold T. Shapiro.
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B.
Maxine
Maxine is a character featured in the film "Once Again."
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C.
Bernice
Bernice is a feminine given name most notably borne by Bernice King, the daughter of civil rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King.
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D.
Linda
Linda is a feminine given name of Germanic origin that became widely used in English-speaking countries in the 20th century.
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E.
Patricia
Patricia is a feminine given name of Latin origin, commonly used in English-speaking countries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
civil rights activist
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| ethnicGroup |
African American
ⓘ
linked to:
Black Americans
|
| familyName | Burey ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | civil rights ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Vivian ⓘ |
| knownFor | supporting NAACP legal campaigns through her husband ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married to Thurgood Marshall ⓘ |
| marriageType | first wife of Thurgood Marshall ⓘ |
| movement | American civil rights movement ⓘ |
| nickname | Buster ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the first wife of Thurgood Marshall
ⓘ
civil rights activism ⓘ |
| notableRelative | Thurgood Marshall ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| residence |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| spouse |
Thurgood Marshall
ⓘ
Vivian "Buster" Burey Marshall ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation |
U.S. Supreme Court Justice
ⓘ
linked to:
Supreme Court justices
civil rights lawyer ⓘ lawyer ⓘ |
| supportedWorkOf | Thurgood Marshall ⓘ |
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: Vivian Description of subject: Vivian "Buster" Burey Marshall was a civil rights activist and the first wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.