Mary (Polly) Prince
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Mary (Polly) Prince was the wife of American mathematician and navigator Nathaniel Bowditch, known primarily through her association with his life and work in early 19th-century New England.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary (Polly) Prince canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T235597 — 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: Mary (Polly) Prince Context triple: [Nathaniel Bowditch, spouse, Mary (Polly) Prince]
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A.
Sarah Osborne
Sarah Osborne was one of the first women accused of witchcraft during the 1692 Salem witch trials in colonial Massachusetts.
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B.
Margaret
Margaret is a feminine given name of Greek origin, traditionally associated with the meaning "pearl" and widely used in English-speaking countries.
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C.
Abigail
Abigail is a feminine given name of Hebrew origin meaning "my father is joy," historically popular in English-speaking countries.
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D.
Elizabeth Eldridge
Elizabeth Eldridge was the wife of Salem Village minister Samuel Parris, associated with the period of the Salem witch trials in late 17th-century Massachusetts.
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E.
Tituba
Tituba was an enslaved woman of Indigenous and African descent whose accusations and testimony helped ignite the Salem witch trials in 1692.
- 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: Mary (Polly) Prince Target entity description: Mary (Polly) Prince was the wife of American mathematician and navigator Nathaniel Bowditch, known primarily through her association with his life and work in early 19th-century New England.
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A.
Sarah Osborne
Sarah Osborne was one of the first women accused of witchcraft during the 1692 Salem witch trials in colonial Massachusetts.
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B.
Margaret
Margaret is a feminine given name of Greek origin, traditionally associated with the meaning "pearl" and widely used in English-speaking countries.
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C.
Abigail
Abigail is a feminine given name of Hebrew origin meaning "my father is joy," historically popular in English-speaking countries.
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D.
Elizabeth Eldridge
Elizabeth Eldridge was the wife of Salem Village minister Samuel Parris, associated with the period of the Salem witch trials in late 17th-century Massachusetts.
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E.
Tituba
Tituba was an enslaved woman of Indigenous and African descent whose accusations and testimony helped ignite the Salem witch trials in 1692.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical figure
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person ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Prince ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Mary ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| nickname | Polly ⓘ |
| notableFor | association with Nathaniel Bowditch ⓘ |
| placeOfResidence | Massachusetts ⓘ |
| residence | New England ⓘ |
| spouse | Nathaniel Bowditch ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation |
mathematician
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navigator ⓘ |
| 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: Mary (Polly) Prince Description of subject: Mary (Polly) Prince was the wife of American mathematician and navigator Nathaniel Bowditch, known primarily through her association with his life and work in early 19th-century New England.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.