Reese Happersett
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Reese Happersett was the Missouri election official who denied Virginia Minor the right to register to vote, becoming the named defendant in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court women’s suffrage case Minor v. Happersett.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Reese Happersett canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9894939 — 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: Reese Happersett Context triple: [Virginia Minor women’s suffrage case, hasMainParty, Reese Happersett]
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A.
Anna Belknap
Anna Belknap is an American actress best known for playing Detective Lindsay Monroe on the television series CSI: NY.
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B.
Eliza Wilson
Eliza Wilson was the wife of influential British journalist and economist Walter Bagehot, connected to Victorian intellectual and political circles.
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C.
Jane Jefferson
Jane Jefferson was the daughter of Thomas Jefferson and Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson who died in early childhood and is known primarily through her connection to the Jefferson family.
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D.
Mary Elizabeth Baird
Mary Elizabeth Baird was the mother of Ruth Bryan Owen, the pioneering American congresswoman and diplomat.
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E.
Marion Loretta Elwell Broderick
Marion Loretta Elwell Broderick is one of the twin daughters of American actress Sarah Jessica Parker and actor Matthew Broderick, born via surrogate in 2009.
- 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: Reese Happersett Target entity description: Reese Happersett was the Missouri election official who denied Virginia Minor the right to register to vote, becoming the named defendant in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court women’s suffrage case Minor v. Happersett.
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A.
Anna Belknap
Anna Belknap is an American actress best known for playing Detective Lindsay Monroe on the television series CSI: NY.
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B.
Eliza Wilson
Eliza Wilson was the wife of influential British journalist and economist Walter Bagehot, connected to Victorian intellectual and political circles.
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C.
Jane Jefferson
Jane Jefferson was the daughter of Thomas Jefferson and Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson who died in early childhood and is known primarily through her connection to the Jefferson family.
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D.
Mary Elizabeth Baird
Mary Elizabeth Baird was the mother of Ruth Bryan Owen, the pioneering American congresswoman and diplomat.
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E.
Marion Loretta Elwell Broderick
Marion Loretta Elwell Broderick is one of the twin daughters of American actress Sarah Jessica Parker and actor Matthew Broderick, born via surrogate in 2009.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
U.S. Supreme Court case
ⓘ
election official ⓘ person ⓘ women’s suffrage activist ⓘ |
| areaOfActivity |
election administration
ⓘ
voter registration ⓘ |
| associatedWith | women’s suffrage history in the United States ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| denied | Virginia Minor the right to register to vote ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| legalCase | Minor v. Happersett ⓘ |
| legalSubject |
voting rights
ⓘ
women’s suffrage ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the named defendant in Minor v. Happersett ⓘ |
| occupation | election official ⓘ |
| opposed | Virginia Minor’s attempt to register to vote ⓘ |
| participantIn |
Minor v. Happersett
ⓘ
Minor v. Happersett ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Missouri election official ⓘ |
| roleInEvent | defendant in Minor v. Happersett ⓘ |
| subjectHasRole |
Reese Happersett as defendant
ⓘ
Virginia Minor as plaintiff ⓘ
linked to:
Virginia Minor women’s suffrage case
|
| tookPlaceIn | Missouri ⓘ |
| workLocation | Missouri ⓘ |
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: Reese Happersett Description of subject: Reese Happersett was the Missouri election official who denied Virginia Minor the right to register to vote, becoming the named defendant in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court women’s suffrage case Minor v. Happersett.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.