Penelope Pelham
E245697
Penelope Pelham was the wife of Josiah Winslow, a colonial governor of Plymouth Colony in 17th-century New England.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Penelope Pelham canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2211332 — 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: Penelope Pelham Context triple: [Josiah Winslow, spouse, Penelope Pelham]
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A.
Mrs. Blair
Mrs. Blair is a minor character in the play "Inherit the Wind," representing one of the townspeople caught up in the controversy over the teaching of evolution.
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B.
Fanny Robarts
Fanny Robarts is a central fictional character in Anthony Trollope’s novel "Framley Parsonage," depicted as the sensible and devoted wife of the ambitious clergyman Mark Robarts.
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C.
Mary Hartman
Mary Hartman is the neurotic, overwhelmed housewife protagonist of the satirical 1970s American soap opera parody "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman."
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D.
Margalo Gillmore
Margalo Gillmore was an English-born American stage and film actress known for her sophisticated supporting roles in Broadway productions and classic Hollywood films of the mid-20th century.
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E.
Penelope Lapham
Penelope Lapham is a central character in William Dean Howells's realist novel "The Rise of Silas Lapham," known for her intelligence, moral integrity, and complex romantic entanglements within a socially ambitious Boston family.
- 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: Penelope Pelham Target entity description: Penelope Pelham was the wife of Josiah Winslow, a colonial governor of Plymouth Colony in 17th-century New England.
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A.
Mrs. Blair
Mrs. Blair is a minor character in the play "Inherit the Wind," representing one of the townspeople caught up in the controversy over the teaching of evolution.
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B.
Fanny Robarts
Fanny Robarts is a central fictional character in Anthony Trollope’s novel "Framley Parsonage," depicted as the sensible and devoted wife of the ambitious clergyman Mark Robarts.
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C.
Mary Hartman
Mary Hartman is the neurotic, overwhelmed housewife protagonist of the satirical 1970s American soap opera parody "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman."
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D.
Margalo Gillmore
Margalo Gillmore was an English-born American stage and film actress known for her sophisticated supporting roles in Broadway productions and classic Hollywood films of the mid-20th century.
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E.
Penelope Lapham
Penelope Lapham is a central character in William Dean Howells's realist novel "The Rise of Silas Lapham," known for her intelligence, moral integrity, and complex romantic entanglements within a socially ambitious Boston family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical figure
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person ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | England ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of Plymouth Colony governor Josiah Winslow ⓘ |
| relativeByMarriage | Edward Winslow ⓘ |
| residence |
New England
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Plymouth Colony ⓘ |
| spouse | Josiah Winslow ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 17th century ⓘ |
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: Penelope Pelham Description of subject: Penelope Pelham was the wife of Josiah Winslow, a colonial governor of Plymouth Colony in 17th-century New England.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.