Province of Delaware
E19537
The Province of Delaware was a British colonial territory in North America that later became the U.S. state of Delaware.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Delaware | 113 |
| Delaware, United States | 8 |
| State of Delaware | 7 |
| Delaware (U.S. state) | 2 |
| Province of Delaware canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T84642 — 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: Province of Delaware Context triple: [New Netherland, successorState, Province of Delaware]
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A.
Province of New Jersey
The Province of New Jersey was a British colonial territory in North America that later became the U.S. state of New Jersey.
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B.
Province of New Hampshire
The Province of New Hampshire was a British colonial territory in North America that later became the U.S. state of New Hampshire and was one of the original Thirteen Colonies.
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C.
Maryland
Maryland is a Mid-Atlantic U.S. state known for its Chesapeake Bay shoreline, colonial history, and proximity to the nation’s capital.
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D.
Province of South Carolina
The Province of South Carolina was a British colonial territory in North America that later became the U.S. state of South Carolina and played a significant role in the economic and political life of the southern colonies.
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E.
Province of North Carolina
The Province of North Carolina was a British colonial territory in North America that later became the U.S. state of North Carolina.
- 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: Province of Delaware Target entity description: The Province of Delaware was a British colonial territory in North America that later became the U.S. state of Delaware.
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A.
Province of New Jersey
The Province of New Jersey was a British colonial territory in North America that later became the U.S. state of New Jersey.
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B.
Province of New Hampshire
The Province of New Hampshire was a British colonial territory in North America that later became the U.S. state of New Hampshire and was one of the original Thirteen Colonies.
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C.
Maryland
Maryland is a Mid-Atlantic U.S. state known for its Chesapeake Bay shoreline, colonial history, and proximity to the nation’s capital.
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D.
Province of South Carolina
The Province of South Carolina was a British colonial territory in North America that later became the U.S. state of South Carolina and played a significant role in the economic and political life of the southern colonies.
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E.
Province of North Carolina
The Province of North Carolina was a British colonial territory in North America that later became the U.S. state of North Carolina.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Province of Delaware Description of subject: The Province of Delaware was a British colonial territory in North America that later became the U.S. state of Delaware.
Referenced by (131)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Delaware
this entity surface form:
Delaware
this entity surface form:
Delaware
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Delaware
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State of Delaware
this entity surface form:
Delaware
this entity surface form:
State of Delaware
this entity surface form:
Delaware
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Delaware
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Delaware
this entity surface form:
Delaware
subject surface form:
Samuel Francis Du Pont
this entity surface form:
Delaware
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Delaware
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Delaware
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Delaware
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State of Delaware
this entity surface form:
Delaware
subject surface form:
New Castle, Delaware
this entity surface form:
Delaware
this entity surface form:
Delaware
this entity surface form:
State of Delaware
this entity surface form:
Delaware
this entity surface form:
Delaware
this entity surface form:
Delaware
this entity surface form:
Delaware
this entity surface form:
State of Delaware
this entity surface form:
Delaware
this entity surface form:
Delaware
this entity surface form:
Delaware
this entity surface form:
Delaware
this entity surface form:
Delaware
this entity surface form:
Delaware