Cora Crane
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Cora Crane was an American writer, journalist, and proprietor of a Jacksonville, Florida brothel, best known for her long-term relationship with author Stephen Crane and her vivid reportage from the Spanish-American War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cora Crane canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T838706 — 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: Cora Crane Context triple: [Stephen Crane, partner, Cora Crane]
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A.
Mary Lee Hartford
Mary Lee Hartford was the second wife of American actor and producer Douglas Fairbanks Jr., known primarily for her marriage into the prominent Fairbanks family.
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B.
Sarah Cloyce
Sarah Cloyce was a woman accused during the Salem witch trials, known for being the sister of fellow accused Rebecca Nurse and for later helping to challenge the legitimacy of the proceedings.
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C.
Lydia Winters
Lydia Winters is a prominent executive and public figure at Mojang Studios, best known for her role in shaping and representing the Minecraft brand.
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D.
Mary Lee Ware
Mary Lee Ware was an American philanthropist and patron of science best known for financing Harvard University’s famous Blaschka Glass Models of Plants (the “Glass Flowers”).
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E.
Cora
Cora is the surname of Alex Cora, a former Major League Baseball infielder and current manager known for leading the Boston Red Sox.
- 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: Cora Crane Target entity description: Cora Crane was an American writer, journalist, and proprietor of a Jacksonville, Florida brothel, best known for her long-term relationship with author Stephen Crane and her vivid reportage from the Spanish-American War.
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A.
Mary Lee Hartford
Mary Lee Hartford was the second wife of American actor and producer Douglas Fairbanks Jr., known primarily for her marriage into the prominent Fairbanks family.
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B.
Sarah Cloyce
Sarah Cloyce was a woman accused during the Salem witch trials, known for being the sister of fellow accused Rebecca Nurse and for later helping to challenge the legitimacy of the proceedings.
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C.
Lydia Winters
Lydia Winters is a prominent executive and public figure at Mojang Studios, best known for her role in shaping and representing the Minecraft brand.
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D.
Mary Lee Ware
Mary Lee Ware was an American philanthropist and patron of science best known for financing Harvard University’s famous Blaschka Glass Models of Plants (the “Glass Flowers”).
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E.
Cora
Cora is the surname of Alex Cora, a former Major League Baseball infielder and current manager known for leading the Boston Red Sox.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
brothel keeper
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human ⓘ journalist ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Cora Howarth
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Cora Stewart ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Jacksonville red-light district
ⓘ
Stephen Crane ⓘ |
| basedIn | Jacksonville, Florida ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | self-employed ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
journalism
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literature ⓘ war correspondence ⓘ |
| genre |
journalism
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non-fiction ⓘ war reportage ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married (to Donald William Stewart, de facto partner of Stephen Crane) ⓘ |
| name | Cora Crane self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being Stephen Crane’s companion at the time of his death
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long-term relationship with Stephen Crane ⓘ ownership and management of a Jacksonville brothel ⓘ vivid reportage from the Spanish–American War ⓘ |
| notableWork |
journalistic reportage from Cuba
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war correspondence from the Spanish–American War ⓘ |
| occupation |
brothel keeper
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journalist ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| partner | Stephen Crane ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Cuba
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Jacksonville, Florida ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | United States of America ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Badenweiler, Germany ⓘ |
| residence |
Florida
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Jacksonville, Florida ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| significantEvent | Spanish–American War ⓘ |
| spouse |
Donald Stewart
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surface form:
Donald William Stewart
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| wroteAbout |
Spanish–American War
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life in brothels and red-light districts ⓘ |
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: Cora Crane Description of subject: Cora Crane was an American writer, journalist, and proprietor of a Jacksonville, Florida brothel, best known for her long-term relationship with author Stephen Crane and her vivid reportage from the Spanish-American War.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.