Sarah Shelton
E150983
Sarah Shelton was the first wife of American Founding Father and orator Patrick Henry, with whom she had several children before her early death.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sarah Shelton canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1090763 — 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: Sarah Shelton Context triple: [Patrick Henry, spouse, Sarah Shelton]
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A.
Samantha Womack
Samantha Womack is a British actress and singer best known for her long-running role as Ronnie Mitchell in the BBC soap opera EastEnders.
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B.
Jennifer Utley
Jennifer Utley is the wife of former Major League Baseball second baseman Chase Utley and is known for her involvement in charitable and animal welfare initiatives.
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C.
Sarah Austin
Sarah Austin is the wife of John Barry, known primarily in relation to her marriage to the acclaimed film composer.
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D.
Anna Beth Sully
Anna Beth Sully was the first wife of silent film star Douglas Fairbanks, whom she married before his rise to Hollywood fame.
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E.
Emily Drinkard
Emily Drinkard, better known as Cissy Houston, is an American soul and gospel singer and the mother of Whitney Houston.
- 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: Sarah Shelton Target entity description: Sarah Shelton was the first wife of American Founding Father and orator Patrick Henry, with whom she had several children before her early death.
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A.
Samantha Womack
Samantha Womack is a British actress and singer best known for her long-running role as Ronnie Mitchell in the BBC soap opera EastEnders.
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B.
Jennifer Utley
Jennifer Utley is the wife of former Major League Baseball second baseman Chase Utley and is known for her involvement in charitable and animal welfare initiatives.
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C.
Sarah Austin
Sarah Austin is the wife of John Barry, known primarily in relation to her marriage to the acclaimed film composer.
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D.
Anna Beth Sully
Anna Beth Sully was the first wife of silent film star Douglas Fairbanks, whom she married before his rise to Hollywood fame.
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E.
Emily Drinkard
Emily Drinkard, better known as Cissy Houston, is an American soul and gospel singer and the mother of Whitney Houston.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical figure
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
United States Founding Fathers
ⓘ
surface form:
Founding Fathers of the United States
Patrick Henry ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
British America
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | British America ⓘ |
| familyName | Shelton ⓘ |
| givenName | Sarah ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | Colonial America ⓘ |
| historicalRegion | Thirteen Colonies ⓘ |
| lifeEvent |
died relatively young
ⓘ
married Patrick Henry in colonial Virginia ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the first wife of Patrick Henry
ⓘ
being the mother of several of Patrick Henry's children ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | several ⓘ |
| placeOfResidence |
Colony and Dominion of Virginia
ⓘ
surface form:
Colony of Virginia
Hanover County, Virginia ⓘ |
| relative | children of Patrick Henry and Sarah Shelton ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse |
Patrick Henry
ⓘ
Sarah Shelton self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| spouseNotableFor | being an American Founding Father ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation |
lawyer
ⓘ
orator ⓘ planter ⓘ politician ⓘ |
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: Sarah Shelton Description of subject: Sarah Shelton was the first wife of American Founding Father and orator Patrick Henry, with whom she had several children before her early death.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Patrick Henry