May Poetter
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May Poetter was an American educator and arts advocate best known as a co-founder of the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), a prominent private art and design university.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| May Poetter canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10697707 — 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: May Poetter Context triple: [Savannah College of Art and Design, founder, May Poetter]
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A.
Anne Schaefer
Anne Schaefer was an American silent film actress active in the early 20th century, appearing in numerous productions during the 1910s and 1920s.
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B.
Mary Haas
Mary Haas was an influential American linguist renowned for her work on Native American languages and for training a generation of field linguists in the Boasian tradition.
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C.
Diana Pokorny
Diana Pokorny is a film producer best known for her work on the fantasy adventure movie "Inkheart."
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D.
Elizabeth Paepcke
Elizabeth Paepcke was an American philanthropist and cultural visionary who, with her husband Walter, played a central role in transforming Aspen, Colorado into an international center for arts, ideas, and intellectual dialogue.
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E.
Paula Lutze
Paula Lutze was the wife of Viktor Lutze, a high-ranking Nazi official and head of the Sturmabteilung (SA) in Nazi Germany.
- 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: May Poetter Target entity description: May Poetter was an American educator and arts advocate best known as a co-founder of the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), a prominent private art and design university.
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A.
Anne Schaefer
Anne Schaefer was an American silent film actress active in the early 20th century, appearing in numerous productions during the 1910s and 1920s.
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B.
Mary Haas
Mary Haas was an influential American linguist renowned for her work on Native American languages and for training a generation of field linguists in the Boasian tradition.
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C.
Diana Pokorny
Diana Pokorny is a film producer best known for her work on the fantasy adventure movie "Inkheart."
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D.
Elizabeth Paepcke
Elizabeth Paepcke was an American philanthropist and cultural visionary who, with her husband Walter, played a central role in transforming Aspen, Colorado into an international center for arts, ideas, and intellectual dialogue.
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E.
Paula Lutze
Paula Lutze was the wife of Viktor Lutze, a high-ranking Nazi official and head of the Sturmabteilung (SA) in Nazi Germany.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
art and design school
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arts advocate ⓘ educator ⓘ human ⓘ private university ⓘ university founder ⓘ |
| affiliation | Savannah College of Art and Design ⓘ |
| coFounded | Savannah College of Art and Design ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
art education
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higher education administration ⓘ |
| hasFounder | May Poetter ⓘ |
| knownFor | co-founding the Savannah College of Art and Design ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity |
Savannah, Georgia
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linked to:
Savannah
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| movement | arts advocacy in higher education ⓘ |
| notableWork | development of Savannah College of Art and Design ⓘ |
| occupation |
arts advocate
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college administrator ⓘ educator ⓘ |
| roleAt |
administrator at Savannah College of Art and Design
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co-founder of Savannah College of Art and Design ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Savannah, Georgia
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linked to:
Savannah
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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: May Poetter Description of subject: May Poetter was an American educator and arts advocate best known as a co-founder of the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), a prominent private art and design university.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
May Poetter