Mary Harris "Mother" Jones
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Mary Harris "Mother" Jones was a prominent Irish-born American labor and community organizer known for her fiery activism on behalf of miners, child workers, and the broader labor movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary Harris "Mother" Jones canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4521062 — 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: Mary Harris "Mother" Jones Context triple: [Appeal to Reason, notableContributor, Mary Harris "Mother" Jones]
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A.
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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B.
Mary Harris Thompson
Mary Harris Thompson was a pioneering American physician and surgeon who founded Chicago’s first hospital for women and children and became one of the earliest prominent female surgeons in the United States.
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C.
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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D.
Tamela Mann
Tamela Mann is an American gospel singer and actress renowned for her powerful vocals and award-winning inspirational music.
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E.
Lucy Burns
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.
- 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: Mary Harris "Mother" Jones Target entity description: Mary Harris "Mother" Jones was a prominent Irish-born American labor and community organizer known for her fiery activism on behalf of miners, child workers, and the broader labor movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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A.
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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B.
Mary Harris Thompson
Mary Harris Thompson was a pioneering American physician and surgeon who founded Chicago’s first hospital for women and children and became one of the earliest prominent female surgeons in the United States.
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C.
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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D.
Tamela Mann
Tamela Mann is an American gospel singer and actress renowned for her powerful vocals and award-winning inspirational music.
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E.
Lucy Burns
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Irish American
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human ⓘ labor organizer ⓘ political activist ⓘ trade unionist ⓘ |
| activeYears |
early 20th century
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late 19th century ⓘ |
| affiliation |
Industrial Workers of the World
NERFINISHED
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Socialist Party of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Mary G. Harris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
Illinois
NERFINISHED
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Mount Olive NERFINISHED ⓘ Union Miners Cemetery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Ireland
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1837-08-01 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1930-11-30 ⓘ |
| employer |
Knights of Labor
NERFINISHED
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United Mine Workers of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Harris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Mary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHonor | induction into the National Women's Hall of Fame ⓘ |
| inspired | naming of the magazine Mother Jones ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Children's Crusade march of 1903
NERFINISHED
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organizing during the Colorado Coalfield War ⓘ public speeches advocating militant unionism ⓘ support for the Paint Creek–Cabin Creek strike of 1912–1913 ⓘ |
| movement |
labor movement
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socialism in the United States ⓘ trade union movement ⓘ |
| nickname | Mother Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
advocacy for workers' rights
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campaigns against child labor ⓘ labor organizing among coal miners ⓘ organizing mine workers in the United States ⓘ |
| occupation |
dressmaker
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labor organizer ⓘ schoolteacher ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Cork
NERFINISHED
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County Cork NERFINISHED ⓘ Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Maryland
NERFINISHED
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Silver Spring NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| residence |
Chicago
NERFINISHED
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Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ Memphis NERFINISHED ⓘ Tennessee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | George E. Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectOf | Mother Jones (magazine) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Mary Harris "Mother" Jones Description of subject: Mary Harris "Mother" Jones was a prominent Irish-born American labor and community organizer known for her fiery activism on behalf of miners, child workers, and the broader labor movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Appeal to Reason