Elizabeth Howland
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Elizabeth Howland was a colonial-era New England woman known primarily as a daughter of Mayflower passenger and Plymouth Colony settler John Howland.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Elizabeth Howland canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1068641 — 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: Elizabeth Howland Context triple: [John Howland, child, Elizabeth Howland]
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A.
Desire Howland
Desire Howland was a 17th-century New England colonist, known as the daughter of Mayflower passenger John Howland and a member of early Plymouth Colony society.
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B.
Mary Easty
Mary Easty was a respected Salem, Massachusetts woman who was falsely accused of witchcraft and executed during the 1692 Salem witch trials, later remembered for her dignified plea for justice.
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C.
Elizabeth Flanagan
Elizabeth Flanagan was the wife of C. Everett Koop, the prominent U.S. Surgeon General known for his influential public health advocacy.
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D.
Mary Scudder
Mary Scudder is the pious, dutiful young heroine of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel "The Minister’s Wooing," whose moral integrity and emotional struggles drive much of the story’s drama.
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E.
Myrtle Logue
Myrtle Logue was the wife of Australian speech therapist Lionel Logue, known for supporting him during his work with King George VI.
- 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: Elizabeth Howland Target entity description: Elizabeth Howland was a colonial-era New England woman known primarily as a daughter of Mayflower passenger and Plymouth Colony settler John Howland.
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A.
Desire Howland
Desire Howland was a 17th-century New England colonist, known as the daughter of Mayflower passenger John Howland and a member of early Plymouth Colony society.
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B.
Mary Easty
Mary Easty was a respected Salem, Massachusetts woman who was falsely accused of witchcraft and executed during the 1692 Salem witch trials, later remembered for her dignified plea for justice.
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C.
Elizabeth Flanagan
Elizabeth Flanagan was the wife of C. Everett Koop, the prominent U.S. Surgeon General known for his influential public health advocacy.
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D.
Mary Scudder
Mary Scudder is the pious, dutiful young heroine of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel "The Minister’s Wooing," whose moral integrity and emotional struggles drive much of the story’s drama.
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E.
Myrtle Logue
Myrtle Logue was the wife of Australian speech therapist Lionel Logue, known for supporting him during his work with King George VI.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
colonial American
ⓘ
person ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Plymouth Colony ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English colonist ⓘ |
| familyName | Howland ⓘ |
| father | John Howland ⓘ |
| givenName | Elizabeth ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| mother | Elizabeth Tilley ⓘ |
| notableFor | being a daughter of Mayflower passenger John Howland ⓘ |
| partOf | Howland family ⓘ |
| placeOfOrigin | Plymouth Colony ⓘ |
| relative |
Mayflower passenger Elizabeth Tilley
ⓘ
surface form:
Mayflower passenger Joan Hurst Tilley
Mayflower passenger John Tilley ⓘ |
| religion | Puritanism ⓘ |
| residence | New England ⓘ |
| sibling |
Desire Howland
ⓘ
Hannah Howland ⓘ Hope Howland ⓘ John Howland ⓘ
surface form:
Infant Howland
Isaac Howland ⓘ Jabez Howland ⓘ John Howland ⓘ
surface form:
John Howland Jr.
Joseph Howland ⓘ Lydia Howland ⓘ Mary Howland ⓘ Ruth Howland ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
New England Colonies
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surface form:
colonial era New England
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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: Elizabeth Howland Description of subject: Elizabeth Howland was a colonial-era New England woman known primarily as a daughter of Mayflower passenger and Plymouth Colony settler John Howland.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.