Anna Murray Douglass
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Anna Murray Douglass was an African American abolitionist and the first wife of Frederick Douglass, who played a crucial role in his escape from slavery and supported his activism throughout their marriage.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Anna Murray Douglass canonical | 15 |
| Anna Murray | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T44719 — 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: Anna Murray Douglass Context triple: [Frederick Douglass, spouse, Anna Murray Douglass]
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A.
Harriet Jacobs
Harriet Jacobs was a formerly enslaved African American woman whose 1861 autobiography "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" became a landmark work in abolitionist literature and early Black feminist writing.
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B.
Isabel Wilkerson
Isabel Wilkerson is an American journalist and author best known for her acclaimed works on race and migration in the United States, including "The Warmth of Other Suns" and "Caste."
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C.
Coretta Scott King
Coretta Scott King was an American author, activist, and civil rights leader who played a key role in advancing racial and gender equality and preserving the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement.
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D.
Douglass
Douglass is a surname and given name most famously associated with Frederick Douglass, the 19th-century American abolitionist, writer, and orator.
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E.
Ann Dunham
Ann Dunham was an American anthropologist and development specialist best known as the mother of U.S. President Barack Obama.
- 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: Anna Murray Douglass Target entity description: Anna Murray Douglass was an African American abolitionist and the first wife of Frederick Douglass, who played a crucial role in his escape from slavery and supported his activism throughout their marriage.
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A.
Harriet Jacobs
Harriet Jacobs was a formerly enslaved African American woman whose 1861 autobiography "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" became a landmark work in abolitionist literature and early Black feminist writing.
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B.
Isabel Wilkerson
Isabel Wilkerson is an American journalist and author best known for her acclaimed works on race and migration in the United States, including "The Warmth of Other Suns" and "Caste."
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C.
Coretta Scott King
Coretta Scott King was an American author, activist, and civil rights leader who played a key role in advancing racial and gender equality and preserving the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement.
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D.
Douglass
Douglass is a surname and given name most famously associated with Frederick Douglass, the 19th-century American abolitionist, writer, and orator.
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E.
Ann Dunham
Ann Dunham was an American anthropologist and development specialist best known as the mother of U.S. President Barack Obama.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
African American
ⓘ
abolitionist ⓘ human ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Frederick Douglass’s North Star newspaper
ⓘ
American abolitionist movement ⓘ
surface form:
Rochester abolitionist community
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | African American ⓘ |
| familyName |
Douglass
ⓘ
Murray ⓘ |
| givenName | Anna ⓘ |
| knownAs |
Anna Douglass
ⓘ
Anna Murray Douglass ⓘ
surface form:
Anna Murray
|
| managed | Douglass household in Rochester ⓘ |
| marriedTo |
Douglass
ⓘ
surface form:
Frederick Douglass
|
| motherOf |
Annie Douglass
ⓘ
Lewis Henry Douglass ⓘ
surface form:
Charles Remond Douglass
Lewis Henry Douglass ⓘ
surface form:
Frederick Douglass Jr.
Lewis Henry Douglass ⓘ Rosetta Douglass ⓘ |
| movement | abolitionism ⓘ |
| notableFor |
assisting Frederick Douglass’s escape from slavery
ⓘ
being first wife of Frederick Douglass ⓘ hosting abolitionist visitors in her home ⓘ providing shelter to freedom seekers ⓘ supporting Frederick Douglass’s abolitionist work ⓘ |
| occupation | abolitionist ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Underground Railroad activities in Rochester ⓘ |
| religion | Methodism ⓘ |
| residence |
Baltimore
ⓘ
surface form:
Baltimore, Maryland
New Bedford, Massachusetts ⓘ Rochester ⓘ
surface form:
Rochester, New York
Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| roleInEvent |
arranged transportation for Frederick Douglass’s escape
ⓘ
planned logistics of Frederick Douglass’s escape ⓘ provided money for Frederick Douglass’s escape ⓘ provided sailor’s clothing for Frederick Douglass’s escape ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse |
Anna Murray Douglass
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
Douglass ⓘ
surface form:
Frederick Douglass
|
| supported |
Frederick Douglass’s newspaper publishing
ⓘ
Frederick Douglass’s public speaking career ⓘ |
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: Anna Murray Douglass Description of subject: Anna Murray Douglass was an African American abolitionist and the first wife of Frederick Douglass, who played a crucial role in his escape from slavery and supported his activism throughout their marriage.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Frederick Douglass
this entity surface form:
Anna Murray
this entity surface form:
Anna Murray
subject surface form:
Frederick Douglass