Margarethe Cammermeyer
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Margarethe Cammermeyer is a retired U.S. Army colonel and nurse who became a prominent LGBTQ+ rights figure after being discharged for being a lesbian and successfully challenging the military’s ban on gay service members.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Margarethe Cammermeyer canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6125796 — 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: Margarethe Cammermeyer Context triple: [Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story, character, Margarethe Cammermeyer]
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A.
Margarete Gebhardt
Margarete Gebhardt was the wife of Austrian zoologist and Nobel Prize–winning ethologist Konrad Lorenz.
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B.
Margarete Weber
Margarete Weber was the wife of Albert Speer, the Nazi Germany architect and armaments minister.
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C.
Marie Meyer
Marie Meyer was the wife of the prominent German historian Eduard Meyer.
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D.
Amalie Rohe
Amalie Rohe was the mother of renowned modernist architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
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E.
Friederike Kempner
Friederike Kempner was a 19th-century German-Jewish poet and writer, often remembered for her socially engaged but stylistically ridiculed poetry.
- 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: Margarethe Cammermeyer Target entity description: Margarethe Cammermeyer is a retired U.S. Army colonel and nurse who became a prominent LGBTQ+ rights figure after being discharged for being a lesbian and successfully challenging the military’s ban on gay service members.
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A.
Margarete Gebhardt
Margarete Gebhardt was the wife of Austrian zoologist and Nobel Prize–winning ethologist Konrad Lorenz.
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B.
Margarete Weber
Margarete Weber was the wife of Albert Speer, the Nazi Germany architect and armaments minister.
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C.
Marie Meyer
Marie Meyer was the wife of the prominent German historian Eduard Meyer.
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D.
Amalie Rohe
Amalie Rohe was the mother of renowned modernist architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
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E.
Friederike Kempner
Friederike Kempner was a 19th-century German-Jewish poet and writer, often remembered for her socially engaged but stylistically ridiculed poetry.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
LGBT rights activist
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human ⓘ military officer ⓘ nurse ⓘ |
| advocatesFor |
equality for lesbian and gay service members
ⓘ
open military service for LGBTQ+ people ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Bronze Star Medal ⓘ |
| basedIn |
Washington State
ⓘ
linked to:
Washington State, United States
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| conflict | Vietnam War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Seattle University
ⓘ
University of Washington ⓘ |
| familyName | Cammermeyer ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
LGBT rights
ⓘ
nursing ⓘ |
| genre | autobiography ⓘ |
| givenName |
Margarethe
ⓘ
linked to:
Margarete
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| hasActivity | public speaking on LGBTQ+ issues and military policy ⓘ |
| hasCause | repeal of bans on gay and lesbian military service ⓘ |
| hasEthnicGroup |
Norwegian American
ⓘ
linked to:
Norwegian Americans
|
| hasOccupation | author ⓘ |
| hasReligion | Lutheranism ⓘ |
| hasSpouse | Diane Divelbess ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
Norwegian ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | colonel ⓘ |
| movement |
LGBT rights movement
ⓘ
gay rights movement ⓘ |
| name | Margarethe Cammermeyer ⓘ |
| notableFor |
advocacy for LGBTQ+ service members
ⓘ
being discharged from the U.S. Army for being a lesbian ⓘ being reinstated into the National Guard after successful legal challenge ⓘ challenging the U.S. military ban on gay service members ⓘ publicly coming out while serving as a high-ranking military nurse ⓘ |
| notableWork | Serving in Silence ⓘ |
| occupation |
LGBT rights activist
ⓘ
military officer ⓘ nurse ⓘ |
| participantIn | legal challenge to U.S. military policies on homosexual service members ⓘ |
| placeOfResidence |
Washington State
ⓘ
linked to:
Washington State, United States
|
| politicalActivity | ran for public office in Washington State ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Chief Nurse of the Washington State National Guard ⓘ |
| residence | Whidbey Island ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| sexualOrientation | lesbian ⓘ |
| subjectOf | Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Margarethe Cammermeyer Description of subject: Margarethe Cammermeyer is a retired U.S. Army colonel and nurse who became a prominent LGBTQ+ rights figure after being discharged for being a lesbian and successfully challenging the military’s ban on gay service members.
Referenced by (2)
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