Augusta Tabor
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Augusta Tabor was a 19th-century American pioneer and philanthropist in Colorado, known for her role in the early mining communities and as the first wife of silver magnate Horace Tabor.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Augusta Tabor canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2388200 — 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: Augusta Tabor Context triple: [Horace Tabor, spouse, Augusta Tabor]
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A.
Leontine Drinkard
Leontine Drinkard was a member of the prominent Warwick–Houston musical family, known as the matriarchal lineage behind singers like Cissy Houston and Whitney Houston.
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B.
Idabel Thompkins
Idabel Thompkins is a spirited, tomboyish young girl in Truman Capote’s novel "Other Voices, Other Rooms," known for her fierce independence and close friendship with the protagonist.
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C.
Lydia Gardner Happer
Lydia Gardner Happer was the wife of U.S. Army General Maxwell D. Taylor, a prominent military leader and diplomat of the mid-20th century.
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D.
Della Mae Jones
Della Mae Jones was the woman who married Robert Stroud, the infamous "Birdman of Alcatraz," during his imprisonment.
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E.
Baby Suggs
Baby Suggs is a formerly enslaved spiritual matriarch in Toni Morrison’s novel "Beloved," known for preaching self-love and healing to her Black community.
- 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: Augusta Tabor Target entity description: Augusta Tabor was a 19th-century American pioneer and philanthropist in Colorado, known for her role in the early mining communities and as the first wife of silver magnate Horace Tabor.
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A.
Leontine Drinkard
Leontine Drinkard was a member of the prominent Warwick–Houston musical family, known as the matriarchal lineage behind singers like Cissy Houston and Whitney Houston.
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B.
Idabel Thompkins
Idabel Thompkins is a spirited, tomboyish young girl in Truman Capote’s novel "Other Voices, Other Rooms," known for her fierce independence and close friendship with the protagonist.
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C.
Lydia Gardner Happer
Lydia Gardner Happer was the wife of U.S. Army General Maxwell D. Taylor, a prominent military leader and diplomat of the mid-20th century.
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D.
Della Mae Jones
Della Mae Jones was the woman who married Robert Stroud, the infamous "Birdman of Alcatraz," during his imprisonment.
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E.
Baby Suggs
Baby Suggs is a formerly enslaved spiritual matriarch in Toni Morrison’s novel "Beloved," known for preaching self-love and healing to her Black community.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American pioneer
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Colorado pioneer ⓘ human ⓘ philanthropist ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | European American ⓘ |
| familyName | Tabor ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
charitable work
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community development ⓘ |
| givenName | Augusta ⓘ |
| knownFor |
supporting civic and charitable causes in Colorado
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supporting mining communities in Colorado ⓘ |
| lifestyle | pioneer life in 19th-century American West ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married to Horace Tabor (historically) ⓘ |
| movement |
Old West
ⓘ
surface form:
American frontier
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| notableFor |
being first wife of silver magnate Horace Tabor
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philanthropy in Colorado ⓘ role in early Colorado mining communities ⓘ |
| occupation |
businesswoman
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homesteader ⓘ philanthropist ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Colorado
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Denver, Colorado ⓘ Leadville, Colorado ⓘ |
| residence |
Territory of Colorado
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surface form:
Colorado Territory
Denver, Colorado ⓘ Leadville, Colorado ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Horace Tabor ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 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: Augusta Tabor Description of subject: Augusta Tabor was a 19th-century American pioneer and philanthropist in Colorado, known for her role in the early mining communities and as the first wife of silver magnate Horace Tabor.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Ballad of Baby Doe