Clara Lemlich
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Clara Lemlich was a Ukrainian-born American labor organizer and suffragist best known for leading the 1909 New York shirtwaist workers’ strike and becoming a key figure in the early 20th-century labor movement.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Clara Lemlich canonical | 5 |
| Clara Lemlich Shavelson | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1788786 — 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: Clara Lemlich Context triple: [International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, notableLeader, Clara Lemlich]
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A.
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was a prominent early 20th-century American labor leader, feminist, and organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World known as “The Rebel Girl.”
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B.
Lucy Parsons
Lucy Parsons was a prominent American labor organizer, radical socialist and anarchist known for her fiery oratory and activism on behalf of workers, the poor, and political prisoners in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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C.
May Wolf Reuther
May Wolf Reuther was the wife and close partner of influential American labor leader Walter Reuther, supporting his work in the United Auto Workers and broader social justice movements.
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D.
Rosika Schwimmer
Rosika Schwimmer was a Hungarian-born feminist, pacifist, and suffragist who became an influential international peace activist in the early 20th century.
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E.
Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman was a prominent early 20th-century anarchist, feminist, and political activist known for her radical writings and speeches on social justice, free speech, and workers’ rights.
- 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: Clara Lemlich Target entity description: Clara Lemlich was a Ukrainian-born American labor organizer and suffragist best known for leading the 1909 New York shirtwaist workers’ strike and becoming a key figure in the early 20th-century labor movement.
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A.
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was a prominent early 20th-century American labor leader, feminist, and organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World known as “The Rebel Girl.”
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B.
Lucy Parsons
Lucy Parsons was a prominent American labor organizer, radical socialist and anarchist known for her fiery oratory and activism on behalf of workers, the poor, and political prisoners in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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C.
May Wolf Reuther
May Wolf Reuther was the wife and close partner of influential American labor leader Walter Reuther, supporting his work in the United Auto Workers and broader social justice movements.
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D.
Rosika Schwimmer
Rosika Schwimmer was a Hungarian-born feminist, pacifist, and suffragist who became an influential international peace activist in the early 20th century.
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E.
Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman was a prominent early 20th-century anarchist, feminist, and political activist known for her radical writings and speeches on social justice, free speech, and workers’ rights.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
feminist
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human ⓘ immigrant ⓘ labor organizer ⓘ political activist ⓘ suffragist ⓘ trade unionist ⓘ |
| advocatedFor |
better wages for garment workers
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consumer rights ⓘ safer working conditions ⓘ shorter working hours ⓘ women's right to vote ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1886-03-28 ⓘ |
| birthName | Clara Lemlich self-link ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Gorodok, Podolia Governorate, Russian Empire
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present-day Horodok, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Russian Empire
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United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1982-07-12 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | New York City ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Jews
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surface form:
Jewish people
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| familyName |
Erlikh
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surface form:
Lemlich
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| fieldOfWork |
labor rights
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women's rights ⓘ workers' education ⓘ |
| fullName |
Clara Lemlich
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Clara Lemlich Shavelson
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| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Clara ⓘ |
| immigratedTo | New York City ⓘ |
| knownAs |
Clara Lemlich
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surface form:
Clara Lemlich Shavelson
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| knownForEvent | Uprising of the 20,000 ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
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Yiddish ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Communist Party USA
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International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union ⓘ National Women’s Trade Union League of America ⓘ
surface form:
Women's Trade Union League
|
| movement |
labor movement
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socialist movement ⓘ women's suffrage movement ⓘ |
| notableFor |
involvement in the American suffrage movement
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leadership in the 1909 New York shirtwaist workers’ strike ⓘ organizing women garment workers ⓘ role in the early 20th-century labor movement ⓘ |
| occupation |
labor organizer
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social worker ⓘ suffragist ⓘ union organizer ⓘ |
| politicalIdeology | socialism ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| residence |
The Bronx
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surface form:
Bronx, New York
New York City ⓘ |
| spouse | Joe Shavelson ⓘ |
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: Clara Lemlich Description of subject: Clara Lemlich was a Ukrainian-born American labor organizer and suffragist best known for leading the 1909 New York shirtwaist workers’ strike and becoming a key figure in the early 20th-century labor movement.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Clara Lemlich Shavelson
this entity surface form:
Clara Lemlich Shavelson