Mary Sue Coleman
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Mary Sue Coleman is an American chemist and academic leader best known for serving as president of the University of Michigan and the University of Iowa and for her influential role in higher education policy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary Sue Coleman canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4220686 — 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 Sue Coleman Context triple: [American Council on Education Distinguished Service Award, hasRecipient, Mary Sue Coleman]
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A.
Mary Grace Slattery
Mary Grace Slattery was the first wife of American playwright Arthur Miller, whom he married before achieving his major theatrical success.
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B.
Elizabeth Reaser
Elizabeth Reaser is an American actress best known for her roles in the Twilight film series and the television drama Grey's Anatomy.
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C.
Mary Margaret Farabee
Mary Margaret Farabee was a Texas cultural leader and philanthropist best known for co-founding the Texas Book Festival to promote literature and support libraries.
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D.
Jane Burnham
Jane Burnham is the disaffected teenage daughter in the film "American Beauty," whose strained family relationships and search for identity reflect the movie’s critique of suburban life.
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E.
Margaret C. Etter
Margaret C. Etter was an influential American chemist and crystallographer known for pioneering work in hydrogen bonding and crystal engineering.
- 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 Sue Coleman Target entity description: Mary Sue Coleman is an American chemist and academic leader best known for serving as president of the University of Michigan and the University of Iowa and for her influential role in higher education policy.
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A.
Mary Grace Slattery
Mary Grace Slattery was the first wife of American playwright Arthur Miller, whom he married before achieving his major theatrical success.
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B.
Elizabeth Reaser
Elizabeth Reaser is an American actress best known for her roles in the Twilight film series and the television drama Grey's Anatomy.
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C.
Mary Margaret Farabee
Mary Margaret Farabee was a Texas cultural leader and philanthropist best known for co-founding the Texas Book Festival to promote literature and support libraries.
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D.
Jane Burnham
Jane Burnham is the disaffected teenage daughter in the film "American Beauty," whose strained family relationships and search for identity reflect the movie’s critique of suburban life.
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E.
Margaret C. Etter
Margaret C. Etter was an influential American chemist and crystallographer known for pioneering work in hydrogen bonding and crystal engineering.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic administrator
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chemist ⓘ educator ⓘ human ⓘ university president ⓘ |
| academicDegree |
PhD in biochemistry
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bachelor's degree in chemistry ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
American Chemical Society awards (various local and national honors)
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linked to:
ACS National Awards in Chemistry
Election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ⓘ Election to the National Academy of Medicine ⓘ |
| boardMemberOf |
Dow Chemical Company
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Johnson & Johnson ⓘ Merck & Co. ⓘ United Way of Washtenaw County ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Grinnell College
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ⓘ |
| employer |
University of Iowa
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University of Kentucky ⓘ University of Michigan ⓘ University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ⓘ |
| familyName | Coleman ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
chemistry
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higher education administration ⓘ |
| givenName | Mary ⓘ |
| memberOf |
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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American Association for the Advancement of Science ⓘ Association of American Universities ⓘ National Academy of Medicine ⓘ |
| name | Mary Sue Coleman ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
first woman president of the University of Iowa
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first woman president of the University of Michigan ⓘ |
| notableWork |
advocacy for affirmative action in higher education
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expansion of research and biomedical facilities at the University of Michigan ⓘ leadership during the Michigan affirmative action Supreme Court cases ⓘ leadership in higher education policy ⓘ |
| occupation |
academic
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chemist ⓘ professor ⓘ university president ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Interim President of the University of Michigan
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President of the Association of American Universities ⓘ President of the University of Iowa ⓘ President of the University of Michigan ⓘ Provost of the University of New Mexico ⓘ Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Programs at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ⓘ Vice President for Research at the University of Iowa ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
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 Sue Coleman Description of subject: Mary Sue Coleman is an American chemist and academic leader best known for serving as president of the University of Michigan and the University of Iowa and for her influential role in higher education policy.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.