Harriet Tubman
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Underground Railroad conductor
Union Army spy
abolitionist
civil rights activist
human
nurse
suffragist
Harriet Tubman was an American abolitionist and former enslaved woman who became a leading conductor on the Underground Railroad, guiding many enslaved people to freedom and later serving as a spy and nurse for the Union during the Civil War.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Harriet Tubman canonical | 55 |
| General Moses (Harriet Tubman) | 2 |
| Harriet Tubman (symbolic recognition) | 1 |
| Harriet Tubman Davis | 1 |
| She Persisted: Harriet Tubman | 1 |
| Tubman | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2363539 — 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: Harriet Tubman Context triple: [American abolitionist movement, notableFigure, Harriet Tubman]
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A.
Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth was a formerly enslaved African American abolitionist and women’s rights advocate best known for her powerful “Ain’t I a Woman?” speech and her tireless activism for racial and gender equality.
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B.
Harriet Hilliard
Harriet Hilliard was an American singer and actress best known as the wife and performing partner of Ozzie Nelson and for her long-running role on the radio and television series "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet."
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C.
Anna Murray Douglass
Anna Murray Douglass was an African American abolitionist and the first wife of Frederick Douglass, who played a crucial role in his escape from slavery and supported his activism throughout their marriage.
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D.
Mary Alice Herold
Mary Alice Herold is known primarily as the sister of David Herold, one of the conspirators involved in the assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
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E.
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass was a formerly enslaved African American abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman whose autobiographies became foundational works in American and African American literature.
- 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: Harriet Tubman Target entity description: Harriet Tubman was an American abolitionist and former enslaved woman who became a leading conductor on the Underground Railroad, guiding many enslaved people to freedom and later serving as a spy and nurse for the Union during the Civil War.
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A.
Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth was a formerly enslaved African American abolitionist and women’s rights advocate best known for her powerful “Ain’t I a Woman?” speech and her tireless activism for racial and gender equality.
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B.
Harriet Hilliard
Harriet Hilliard was an American singer and actress best known as the wife and performing partner of Ozzie Nelson and for her long-running role on the radio and television series "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet."
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C.
Anna Murray Douglass
Anna Murray Douglass was an African American abolitionist and the first wife of Frederick Douglass, who played a crucial role in his escape from slavery and supported his activism throughout their marriage.
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D.
Mary Alice Herold
Mary Alice Herold is known primarily as the sister of David Herold, one of the conspirators involved in the assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
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E.
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass was a formerly enslaved African American abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman whose autobiographies became foundational works in American and African American literature.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
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: Harriet Tubman Description of subject: Harriet Tubman was an American abolitionist and former enslaved woman who became a leading conductor on the Underground Railroad, guiding many enslaved people to freedom and later serving as a spy and nurse for the Union during the Civil War.
Referenced by (61)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Harriet Tubman
subject linked to:
National Historic Sites in New York
linked to: Harriet Tubman
linked to: Harriet Tubman
subject linked to:
Combahee River, South Carolina
linked to: Harriet Tubman
linked to: Harriet Tubman