Susan Cooley Bouchet
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Susan Cooley Bouchet was the mother of physicist Edward Alexander Bouchet, the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from an American university.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Susan Cooley Bouchet canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5953175 — 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: Susan Cooley Bouchet Context triple: [Edward Alexander Bouchet, mother, Susan Cooley Bouchet]
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A.
Clair Engle
Clair Engle was a mid-20th-century Democratic U.S. Senator from California known for his support of civil rights legislation, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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B.
Vivian Burey Marshall
Vivian Burey Marshall was the first wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and a civil rights supporter who played a key role in his early career.
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C.
Audrey Robinson Felt
Audrey Robinson Felt was the wife of former FBI Associate Director Mark Felt, who was later revealed to be the Watergate informant "Deep Throat."
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D.
Mary Sue Coleman
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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E.
Laura Ricketts
Laura Ricketts is an American attorney, co-owner of the Chicago Cubs, and prominent LGBTQ+ activist and political donor.
- 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: Susan Cooley Bouchet Target entity description: Susan Cooley Bouchet was the mother of physicist Edward Alexander Bouchet, the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from an American university.
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A.
Clair Engle
Clair Engle was a mid-20th-century Democratic U.S. Senator from California known for his support of civil rights legislation, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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B.
Vivian Burey Marshall
Vivian Burey Marshall was the first wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and a civil rights supporter who played a key role in his early career.
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C.
Audrey Robinson Felt
Audrey Robinson Felt was the wife of former FBI Associate Director Mark Felt, who was later revealed to be the Watergate informant "Deep Throat."
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D.
Mary Sue Coleman
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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E.
Laura Ricketts
Laura Ricketts is an American attorney, co-owner of the Chicago Cubs, and prominent LGBTQ+ activist and political donor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (22)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
mother ⓘ |
| child |
Alfred Bouchet
ⓘ
Charles Bouchet ⓘ Charles Henry Bouchet ⓘ
linked to:
Charles Bouchet
Edward Alexander Bouchet ⓘ Emily Bouchet ⓘ Fannie Bouchet ⓘ George Bouchet ⓘ William Bouchet ⓘ
linked to:
William Francis Bouchet
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
African American
ⓘ
linked to:
Black Americans
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| familyName | Bouchet ⓘ |
| givenName | Susan ⓘ |
| mother | Susan Cooley Bouchet ⓘ |
| notableFact | mother of the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from an American university ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the mother of physicist Edward Alexander Bouchet ⓘ |
| occupation | domestic worker ⓘ |
| religion | Methodism ⓘ |
| residence |
New Haven, Connecticut, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
New Haven, Connecticut
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| spouse | William Francis Bouchet ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation | Episcopal church sexton ⓘ |
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: Susan Cooley Bouchet Description of subject: Susan Cooley Bouchet was the mother of physicist Edward Alexander Bouchet, the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from an American university.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Susan Cooley Bouchet