Lucy Burns
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Lucy Burns was a prominent American suffragist and political activist who co-founded the National Woman's Party and played a key role in securing women's right to vote in the United States.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lucy Burns canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2166389 — 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: Lucy Burns Context triple: [National Woman's Party, foundedBy, Lucy Burns]
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A.
Alice Paul
Alice Paul was a prominent American suffragist and women’s rights activist who played a key role in securing the 19th Amendment and later authored the Equal Rights Amendment.
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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.
Carrie Chapman Catt
Carrie Chapman Catt was a prominent American suffragist and peace activist who led the campaign for women’s right to vote and served as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
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D.
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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E.
Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony was a pioneering American social reformer and leading figure in the women’s suffrage movement who played a crucial role in the fight for women’s right to vote.
- 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: Lucy Burns Target entity description: Lucy Burns was a prominent American suffragist and political activist who co-founded the National Woman's Party and played a key role in securing women's right to vote in the United States.
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A.
Alice Paul
Alice Paul was a prominent American suffragist and women’s rights activist who played a key role in securing the 19th Amendment and later authored the Equal Rights Amendment.
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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.
Carrie Chapman Catt
Carrie Chapman Catt was a prominent American suffragist and peace activist who led the campaign for women’s right to vote and served as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
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D.
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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E.
Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony was a pioneering American social reformer and leading figure in the women’s suffrage movement who played a crucial role in the fight for women’s right to vote.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
feminist
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human ⓘ political activist ⓘ suffragist ⓘ |
| advocatedFor | Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Holy Cross Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York, United States ⓘ |
| closeCollaborator | Alice Paul ⓘ |
| coFounded |
Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage
ⓘ
National Woman's Party ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1879-07-28 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1966-12-22 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Packer Collegiate Institute
ⓘ
Humboldt University of Berlin ⓘ
surface form:
University of Berlin
University of Oxford ⓘ Vassar College ⓘ Yale University ⓘ |
| familyName | Burns ⓘ |
| fullName | Lucy Burns self-link ⓘ |
| givenName | Lucy ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-founding the National Woman's Party
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leadership in the American women's suffrage movement ⓘ organizing the Silent Sentinels protests ⓘ picketing the White House for women's suffrage ⓘ |
| memberOf |
National Woman's Party
ⓘ
Women's Social and Political Union ⓘ |
| movement |
first-wave feminism
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women's suffrage movement in the United States ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
arrest and imprisonment for suffrage protests
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imprisonment at Occoquan Workhouse ⓘ participation in the 1917 White House pickets ⓘ |
| notableWork | organizing suffrage parades and demonstrations in Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| occupation |
political activist
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suffragist ⓘ teacher ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States
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surface form:
Brooklyn, New York, United States
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| placeOfDeath |
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States
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surface form:
Brooklyn, New York, United States
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| politicalGoal | securing women's right to vote in the United States ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| residence |
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States
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surface form:
Brooklyn, New York, United States
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| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| usedMethod |
civil disobedience
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hunger strike ⓘ nonviolent protest ⓘ |
| workedAs | English teacher at Erasmus Hall High School ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Lucy Burns Description of subject: Lucy Burns was a prominent American suffragist and political activist who co-founded the National Woman's Party and played a key role in securing women's right to vote in the United States.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
National Woman's Party