Baby Doe Tabor
E261865
Baby Doe Tabor was an American socialite and former miner’s wife whose dramatic rise and fall from wealth during the Colorado silver boom made her a legendary figure of Western folklore.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Baby Doe | 1 |
| Baby Doe Tabor canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2388199 — 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: Baby Doe Tabor Context triple: [Horace Tabor, spouse, Baby Doe Tabor]
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A.
Jimmie Gumm
Jimmie Gumm is a member of the Gumm family, known primarily as a sibling of Mary Jane Gumm, part of the family connected to entertainer Judy Garland.
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B.
Stump of Jesse
The Stump of Jesse is a Christian symbolic motif representing the humble origins and prophetic lineage of Jesus Christ from Jesse, the father of King David.
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C.
Maggie
Maggie is a common diminutive form of the given name Margaret, often used as a familiar or affectionate nickname.
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D.
Sadie
Sadie is a feminine given name commonly used as a diminutive form of Sara or Sarah.
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E.
Sadie
"Sadie" is a song by Joanna Newsom from her debut album *The Milk-Eyed Mender*, noted for its intricate harp accompaniment and poetic, emotionally rich lyrics.
- 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: Baby Doe Tabor Target entity description: Baby Doe Tabor was an American socialite and former miner’s wife whose dramatic rise and fall from wealth during the Colorado silver boom made her a legendary figure of Western folklore.
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A.
Jimmie Gumm
Jimmie Gumm is a member of the Gumm family, known primarily as a sibling of Mary Jane Gumm, part of the family connected to entertainer Judy Garland.
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B.
Stump of Jesse
The Stump of Jesse is a Christian symbolic motif representing the humble origins and prophetic lineage of Jesus Christ from Jesse, the father of King David.
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C.
Maggie
Maggie is a common diminutive form of the given name Margaret, often used as a familiar or affectionate nickname.
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D.
Sadie
Sadie is a feminine given name commonly used as a diminutive form of Sara or Sarah.
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E.
Sadie
"Sadie" is a song by Joanna Newsom from her debut album *The Milk-Eyed Mender*, noted for its intricate harp accompaniment and poetic, emotionally rich lyrics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
folk figure
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human ⓘ socialite ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Leadville mining district
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Matchless Mine ⓘ |
| birthName | Elizabeth Bonduel McCourt ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | exposure to cold ⓘ |
| child |
Lillie Tabor
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Silver Dollar Tabor ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1854-09-25 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1935-03-07 ⓘ |
| deathPlaceCharacteristic | found frozen in her cabin at the Matchless Mine ⓘ |
| era |
Old West
ⓘ
surface form:
American Old West
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| ethnicGroup | Irish American ⓘ |
| familyName | Tabor ⓘ |
| givenName | Elizabeth ⓘ |
| influenced | American Western folklore ⓘ |
| knownFor |
living in poverty at the Matchless Mine after losing her fortune
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marriage to silver magnate Horace Tabor ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | widowed ⓘ |
| movement |
Colorado silver boom
ⓘ
surface form:
Colorado Silver Boom society
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| name | Elizabeth McCourt Tabor ⓘ |
| nickname |
Baby Doe Tabor
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Baby Doe
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| notableCharacteristic | symbol of boom-and-bust fortunes in the American West ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
Colorado silver boom
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collapse of silver prices in 1893 ⓘ |
| notableFor |
dramatic rise and fall from wealth during the Colorado silver boom
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role in Western American folklore ⓘ |
| occupation |
miner’s wife
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socialite ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Oshkosh, Wisconsin ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Leadville, Colorado ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| residence |
Denver, Colorado
ⓘ
Leadville, Colorado ⓘ Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse |
Harvey Doe
ⓘ
Horace Tabor ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
numerous biographies
ⓘ
The Ballad of Baby Doe (opera) ⓘ
surface form:
opera "The Ballad of Baby Doe"
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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: Baby Doe Tabor Description of subject: Baby Doe Tabor was an American socialite and former miner’s wife whose dramatic rise and fall from wealth during the Colorado silver boom made her a legendary figure of Western folklore.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Baby Doe