Nellie Bly
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Nellie Bly was a pioneering American journalist and investigative reporter famed for her undercover exposés and record-setting trip around the world in 72 days.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nellie Bly canonical | 21 |
| Elizabeth Cochran (Nellie Bly) | 1 |
| Nellie Bly bibliography | 1 |
| Nelly Bly | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T274493 — 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: Nellie Bly Context triple: [Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York City, hasBurial, Nellie Bly]
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A.
Briton Hadden
Briton Hadden was an American journalist and co-founder of Time magazine, instrumental in shaping modern news reporting and magazine journalism.
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B.
Katherine Tupper Brown
Katherine Tupper Brown was an American woman best known as the wife of U.S. Army General and statesman George C. Marshall, supporting his military and diplomatic career during and after World War II.
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C.
Jane Belson
Jane Belson was a British barrister best known as the wife of author Douglas Adams.
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D.
Mary Louise Bell
Mary Louise Bell was the first wife of renowned physicist Richard Feynman, whom he married after the death of his childhood sweetheart Arline Greenbaum.
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E.
Mary Lee Woods
Mary Lee Woods was a British mathematician and computer scientist who worked on early computers at Ferranti and was the mother of World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee.
- 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: Nellie Bly Target entity description: Nellie Bly was a pioneering American journalist and investigative reporter famed for her undercover exposés and record-setting trip around the world in 72 days.
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A.
Briton Hadden
Briton Hadden was an American journalist and co-founder of Time magazine, instrumental in shaping modern news reporting and magazine journalism.
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B.
Katherine Tupper Brown
Katherine Tupper Brown was an American woman best known as the wife of U.S. Army General and statesman George C. Marshall, supporting his military and diplomatic career during and after World War II.
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C.
Jane Belson
Jane Belson was a British barrister best known as the wife of author Douglas Adams.
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D.
Mary Louise Bell
Mary Louise Bell was the first wife of renowned physicist Richard Feynman, whom he married after the death of his childhood sweetheart Arline Greenbaum.
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E.
Mary Lee Woods
Mary Lee Woods was a British mathematician and computer scientist who worked on early computers at Ferranti and was the mother of World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
feminist
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human ⓘ investigative reporter ⓘ journalist ⓘ suffragist ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Elizabeth Cochran Seaman
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Elizabeth Jane Cochrane ⓘ |
| birthName | Elizabeth Jane Cochran ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York City
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surface form:
Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York, United States
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| causeOfDeath | pneumonia ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1864-05-05 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1922-01-27 ⓘ |
| dateOfMarriage | 1895 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
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surface form:
Indiana Normal School (Indiana University of Pennsylvania predecessor)
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| employer |
New York World
ⓘ
Pittsburgh Dispatch ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Irish American ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
investigative journalism
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muckraking ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasInfluenced |
investigative reporting practices
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women in journalism ⓘ |
| inspiredBy |
Around the World in Seventy-Two Days
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surface form:
Around the World in Eighty Days
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| knownFor |
exposé of conditions at Blackwell's Island Insane Asylum
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record-setting trip around the world in 72 days ⓘ undercover investigative journalism ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
helped prompt reforms in mental health institutions
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one of the first female investigative reporters in the United States ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Around the World in Seventy-Two Days
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Six Months in Mexico ⓘ Ten Days in a Mad-House ⓘ |
| occupation |
journalist
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reporter ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Cochran's Mills, Pennsylvania, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
New York City
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surface form:
New York City, New York, United States
|
| pseudonym | Nellie Bly ⓘ |
| publisherOf |
New York World
ⓘ
surface form:
The New York World (travel series)
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| residence |
New York City
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surface form:
New York City, New York, United States
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ⓘ
surface form:
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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| spouse | Robert Seaman ⓘ |
| subjectOf | biographies about Nellie Bly ⓘ |
| tripDuration | 72 days ⓘ |
| tripEndDate | 1890-01-25 ⓘ |
| tripStartDate | 1889-11-14 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Nellie Bly Description of subject: Nellie Bly was a pioneering American journalist and investigative reporter famed for her undercover exposés and record-setting trip around the world in 72 days.
Referenced by (24)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Nelly Bly
this entity surface form:
Elizabeth Cochran (Nellie Bly)
subject surface form:
Cochran's Mills, Pennsylvania
subject surface form:
Cochran's Mills, Pennsylvania
this entity surface form:
Nellie Bly bibliography