Crystal Eastman
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Crystal Eastman was an American lawyer, feminist, pacifist, and pioneering civil liberties advocate who played a key role in the early 20th-century progressive and suffrage movements.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Crystal Eastman canonical | 17 |
| Crystal Catherine Eastman | 1 |
| Max Eastman | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T78989 — 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: Crystal Eastman Context triple: [American Civil Liberties Union, foundedBy, Crystal Eastman]
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A.
Bettina Aptheker
Bettina Aptheker is an American political activist, feminist scholar, and professor known for her prominent role in the 1960s student movements and long-standing work in civil rights and social justice.
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B.
Sally Kornbluth
Sally Kornbluth is an American cell biologist and academic leader who became the 18th president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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C.
Maxine Singer
Maxine Singer is an American molecular biologist renowned for her pioneering work in genetics and for her leadership in shaping ethical guidelines for recombinant DNA research.
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D.
Marie Mosquini
Marie Mosquini was an American silent film actress best known for her work in Hal Roach comedies during the 1910s and 1920s.
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E.
Nora Stanton Blatch
Nora Stanton Blatch was a pioneering American civil engineer, architect, and women's rights activist who was among the first women in the United States to earn an engineering degree.
- 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: Crystal Eastman Target entity description: Crystal Eastman was an American lawyer, feminist, pacifist, and pioneering civil liberties advocate who played a key role in the early 20th-century progressive and suffrage movements.
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A.
Bettina Aptheker
Bettina Aptheker is an American political activist, feminist scholar, and professor known for her prominent role in the 1960s student movements and long-standing work in civil rights and social justice.
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B.
Sally Kornbluth
Sally Kornbluth is an American cell biologist and academic leader who became the 18th president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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C.
Maxine Singer
Maxine Singer is an American molecular biologist renowned for her pioneering work in genetics and for her leadership in shaping ethical guidelines for recombinant DNA research.
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D.
Marie Mosquini
Marie Mosquini was an American silent film actress best known for her work in Hal Roach comedies during the 1910s and 1920s.
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E.
Nora Stanton Blatch
Nora Stanton Blatch was a pioneering American civil engineer, architect, and women's rights activist who was among the first women in the United States to earn an engineering degree.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
civil liberties advocate
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feminist ⓘ human ⓘ lawyer ⓘ pacifist ⓘ suffragist ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | nephritis ⓘ |
| child |
Annis Fuller
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Jeffrey Fuller ⓘ |
| coFounded |
American Civil Liberties Union
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Feminist Alliance ⓘ National Woman's Party ⓘ The Liberator (magazine) ⓘ Women's International League for Peace and Freedom ⓘ
surface form:
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (U.S. section)
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1881-06-25 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1928-07-08 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Columbia University
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New York University School of Law ⓘ Vassar College ⓘ |
| familyName | Eastman ⓘ |
| father | Samuel Elijah Eastman ⓘ |
| fullName |
Crystal Eastman
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Crystal Catherine Eastman
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| givenName | Crystal ⓘ |
| knownFor | pioneering civil liberties advocacy in the United States ⓘ |
| mother | Annis Bertha Ford Eastman ⓘ |
| movement |
civil liberties movement
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peace movement ⓘ progressive movement ⓘ women's suffrage movement ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
early advocate of birth control and reproductive rights
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helped draft New York's first workers' compensation law ⓘ prominent advocate for the Equal Rights Amendment ⓘ |
| notableFor | linking feminism, pacifism, and socialism ⓘ |
| notableWork |
"Now We Can Begin" (1920 essay)
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co-founder of the American Civil Liberties Union ⓘ report on industrial accidents in New York (1909) ⓘ |
| occupation |
activist
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journalist ⓘ lawyer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Marlborough, Massachusetts
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surface form:
Marlborough, Massachusetts, United States
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| placeOfDeath | British Hospital for Mothers and Babies, London, England ⓘ |
| politicalIdeology | socialist feminism ⓘ |
| positionHeld | investigator for the New York State Commission on Employers' Liability and Causes of Industrial Accidents ⓘ |
| residence |
Greenwich Village Historic District
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surface form:
Greenwich Village, New York City
London, England ⓘ New York City ⓘ |
| sibling |
Crystal Eastman
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Max Eastman
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| spouse |
Wallace J. Benedict
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Walter Fuller ⓘ |
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: Crystal Eastman Description of subject: Crystal Eastman was an American lawyer, feminist, pacifist, and pioneering civil liberties advocate who played a key role in the early 20th-century progressive and suffrage movements.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Crystal Catherine Eastman
this entity surface form:
Max Eastman