Catharine Jones
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Catharine Jones was the wife of prominent early 19th-century New York politician and governor DeWitt Clinton.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Catharine Jones canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1505696 — 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: Catharine Jones Context triple: [DeWitt Clinton, spouse, Catharine Jones]
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A.
Catherine Macmillan
Catherine Macmillan was the daughter of former British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and the wife of Conservative politician Julian Amery, placing her at the center of mid-20th-century British political life.
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B.
Elizabeth Donkin
Elizabeth Donkin was the wife of British acting governor Sir Rufane Donkin, in whose memory the South African city of Port Elizabeth was named.
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C.
Katharine Tait
Katharine Tait is a British writer and teacher best known as the daughter of philosopher Bertrand Russell and for her memoir about growing up in his unconventional, secular household.
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D.
Catherine Compton
Catherine Compton was a British aristocrat and the mother of Spencer Perceval, the only British prime minister to have been assassinated.
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E.
Clarissa Luard
Clarissa Luard was a British literary editor and arts administrator known for her work supporting contemporary writers and for her marriage to novelist Salman Rushdie.
- 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: Catharine Jones Target entity description: Catharine Jones was the wife of prominent early 19th-century New York politician and governor DeWitt Clinton.
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A.
Catherine Macmillan
Catherine Macmillan was the daughter of former British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and the wife of Conservative politician Julian Amery, placing her at the center of mid-20th-century British political life.
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B.
Elizabeth Donkin
Elizabeth Donkin was the wife of British acting governor Sir Rufane Donkin, in whose memory the South African city of Port Elizabeth was named.
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C.
Katharine Tait
Katharine Tait is a British writer and teacher best known as the daughter of philosopher Bertrand Russell and for her memoir about growing up in his unconventional, secular household.
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D.
Catherine Compton
Catherine Compton was a British aristocrat and the mother of Spencer Perceval, the only British prime minister to have been assassinated.
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E.
Clarissa Luard
Clarissa Luard was a British literary editor and arts administrator known for her work supporting contemporary writers and for her marriage to novelist Salman Rushdie.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (8)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of New York politician DeWitt Clinton ⓘ |
| residence | New York ⓘ |
| spouse | DeWitt Clinton ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation | politician ⓘ |
| spousePositionHeld | Governor of New York ⓘ |
| timePeriod | early 19th 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: Catharine Jones Description of subject: Catharine Jones was the wife of prominent early 19th-century New York politician and governor DeWitt Clinton.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.