Joseph Howland
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Joseph Howland was a 17th-century New England colonist, known primarily as a son of Mayflower passenger John Howland and a member of the early Plymouth Colony community.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Joseph Howland canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1068644 — 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: Joseph Howland Context triple: [John Howland, child, Joseph Howland]
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A.
James R. Osgood
James R. Osgood was a prominent 19th-century American publisher known for his influential role in the Boston literary scene and for publishing works by major authors of his time.
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B.
George C. Perkins
George C. Perkins was an American politician and businessman who served as the 14th governor of California and later as a U.S. Senator.
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C.
George A. Perkins
George A. Perkins was an American lawyer best known as a founding partner of the prominent U.S. law firm Perkins Coie.
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D.
Jabez Howland
Jabez Howland was a colonial New England settler and son of Mayflower passenger John Howland, known for owning one of the oldest surviving houses in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
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E.
Charles Emerson
Charles Emerson was a 19th-century American lawyer and lecturer, best known as the intellectually gifted but short-lived younger brother of transcendentalist writer Ralph Waldo Emerson.
- 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: Joseph Howland Target entity description: Joseph Howland was a 17th-century New England colonist, known primarily as a son of Mayflower passenger John Howland and a member of the early Plymouth Colony community.
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A.
James R. Osgood
James R. Osgood was a prominent 19th-century American publisher known for his influential role in the Boston literary scene and for publishing works by major authors of his time.
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B.
George C. Perkins
George C. Perkins was an American politician and businessman who served as the 14th governor of California and later as a U.S. Senator.
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C.
George A. Perkins
George A. Perkins was an American lawyer best known as a founding partner of the prominent U.S. law firm Perkins Coie.
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D.
Jabez Howland
Jabez Howland was a colonial New England settler and son of Mayflower passenger John Howland, known for owning one of the oldest surviving houses in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
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E.
Charles Emerson
Charles Emerson was a 19th-century American lawyer and lecturer, best known as the intellectually gifted but short-lived younger brother of transcendentalist writer Ralph Waldo Emerson.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
New England colonist
ⓘ
person ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 17th century ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Plymouth Colony ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English colonists in North America ⓘ |
| familyName | Howland ⓘ |
| father | John Howland ⓘ |
| givenName | Joseph ⓘ |
| hasAncestor |
Elizabeth Tilley
ⓘ
John Howland ⓘ Pilgrims ⓘ
surface form:
Mayflower passengers
|
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| mother | Elizabeth Tilley ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a son of Mayflower passenger John Howland
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membership in the early Plymouth Colony community ⓘ |
| partOf | early Plymouth Colony community ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Plymouth Colony ⓘ |
| relative |
Elizabeth Tilley
ⓘ
John Howland ⓘ |
| religion |
Protestant Christianity
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surface form:
Protestantism
Puritanism ⓘ |
| residence |
New England
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Plymouth Colony ⓘ |
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: Joseph Howland Description of subject: Joseph Howland was a 17th-century New England colonist, known primarily as a son of Mayflower passenger John Howland and a member of the early Plymouth Colony community.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.