Judy Shepard
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Judy Shepard is an American LGBTQ+ rights activist and co-founder of the Matthew Shepard Foundation, established in memory of her son Matthew Shepard after his 1998 hate-crime murder.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Judy Shepard canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7112235 — 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: Judy Shepard Context triple: [Matthew Shepard, hasMother, Judy Shepard]
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A.
JoAnn Mueller
JoAnn Mueller is best known as the former wife of longtime Los Angeles Lakers owner Jerry Buss.
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B.
Sharon Weston Broome
Sharon Weston Broome is an American politician who serves as the mayor-president of Baton Rouge and is known as the first African American woman to hold this position.
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C.
Patricia Haines
Patricia Haines was a British actress known for her television and film roles in the 1950s and 1960s.
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D.
Martha Raddatz
Martha Raddatz is an American journalist and television news anchor best known as ABC News’ chief global affairs correspondent and a prominent moderator of U.S. political debates.
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E.
Marian Shields Robinson
Marian Shields Robinson is the mother of former First Lady Michelle Obama and grandmother of Malia and Sasha Obama, known for living in the White House during Barack Obama’s presidency to help care for her granddaughters.
- 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: Judy Shepard Target entity description: Judy Shepard is an American LGBTQ+ rights activist and co-founder of the Matthew Shepard Foundation, established in memory of her son Matthew Shepard after his 1998 hate-crime murder.
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A.
JoAnn Mueller
JoAnn Mueller is best known as the former wife of longtime Los Angeles Lakers owner Jerry Buss.
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B.
Sharon Weston Broome
Sharon Weston Broome is an American politician who serves as the mayor-president of Baton Rouge and is known as the first African American woman to hold this position.
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C.
Patricia Haines
Patricia Haines was a British actress known for her television and film roles in the 1950s and 1960s.
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D.
Martha Raddatz
Martha Raddatz is an American journalist and television news anchor best known as ABC News’ chief global affairs correspondent and a prominent moderator of U.S. political debates.
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E.
Marian Shields Robinson
Marian Shields Robinson is the mother of former First Lady Michelle Obama and grandmother of Malia and Sasha Obama, known for living in the White House during Barack Obama’s presidency to help care for her granddaughters.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American activist
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LGBT rights activist ⓘ human ⓘ |
| advocatesFor |
LGBTQ+ equality
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anti-bullying policies ⓘ hate-crime legislation ⓘ |
| child | Matthew Shepard ⓘ |
| coFounderOf | Matthew Shepard Foundation ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Matthew Shepard Foundation ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
LGBT rights
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human rights ⓘ |
| foundedInMemoryOf | Matthew Shepard ⓘ |
| genre | memoir ⓘ |
| hasActivity |
lecturing at colleges and universities
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testifying before legislators on hate-crime laws ⓘ |
| hasAward | honorary degrees from various universities ⓘ |
| hasRelative |
Dennis Shepard
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Matthew Shepard ⓘ |
| hasRole |
board member of the Matthew Shepard Foundation
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president of the Matthew Shepard Foundation ⓘ |
| hasSpeakingFocus |
LGBTQ+ youth
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hate crimes ⓘ tolerance and acceptance ⓘ |
| inspired | support for the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act ⓘ |
| knownFor |
advocacy following the murder of her son Matthew Shepard
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public speaking on LGBTQ+ issues ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement |
LGBT rights movement
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human rights movement ⓘ |
| name | Judy Shepard ⓘ |
| notableEvent | public advocacy after the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard ⓘ |
| notableFor | LGBTQ+ rights advocacy ⓘ |
| notableWork |
The Meaning of Matthew
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The Meaning of Matthew: My Son’s Murder in Laramie, and a World Transformed ⓘ |
| occupation | activist ⓘ |
| placeOfResidence |
Colorado
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Wyoming ⓘ |
| positionHeld | executive director of the Matthew Shepard Foundation ⓘ |
| spouse | Dennis Shepard ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
documentaries about Matthew Shepard
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interviews on LGBTQ+ rights ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Judy Shepard Description of subject: Judy Shepard is an American LGBTQ+ rights activist and co-founder of the Matthew Shepard Foundation, established in memory of her son Matthew Shepard after his 1998 hate-crime murder.
Referenced by (6)
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