Cordelia Whewell
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Cordelia Whewell was the wife of 19th-century English polymath and philosopher William Whewell, known primarily through her marriage into his intellectual and academic circle.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cordelia Whewell canonical | 1 |
| Janet Whewell | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T203888 — 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: Cordelia Whewell Context triple: [William Whewell, spouse, Cordelia Whewell]
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A.
Mary Horner Lyell
Mary Horner Lyell was a 19th-century British conchologist and scientific illustrator who collaborated closely with her geologist husband Charles Lyell on his research and travels.
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B.
Marianne Stanley
Marianne Stanley is an American basketball coach and former player best known for her long career in women’s college and professional basketball, including a stint as a WNBA head coach.
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C.
Emma Darwin
Emma Darwin was an English woman best known as the devoted wife and first cousin of naturalist Charles Darwin, who supported his scientific work and managed their large family.
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D.
Elizabeth Darwin
Elizabeth Darwin is a member of the Darwin family, likely a descendant or relative of the naturalist Charles Darwin.
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E.
Margaret Maskelyne
Margaret Maskelyne was the wife of British colonial figure Robert Clive and a member of a prominent 18th-century English family that included the Astronomer Royal Nevil Maskelyne.
- 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: Cordelia Whewell Target entity description: Cordelia Whewell was the wife of 19th-century English polymath and philosopher William Whewell, known primarily through her marriage into his intellectual and academic circle.
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A.
Mary Horner Lyell
Mary Horner Lyell was a 19th-century British conchologist and scientific illustrator who collaborated closely with her geologist husband Charles Lyell on his research and travels.
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B.
Marianne Stanley
Marianne Stanley is an American basketball coach and former player best known for her long career in women’s college and professional basketball, including a stint as a WNBA head coach.
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C.
Emma Darwin
Emma Darwin was an English woman best known as the devoted wife and first cousin of naturalist Charles Darwin, who supported his scientific work and managed their large family.
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D.
Elizabeth Darwin
Elizabeth Darwin is a member of the Darwin family, likely a descendant or relative of the naturalist Charles Darwin.
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E.
Margaret Maskelyne
Margaret Maskelyne was the wife of British colonial figure Robert Clive and a member of a prominent 18th-century English family that included the Astronomer Royal Nevil Maskelyne.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (7)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| memberOf | William Whewell’s intellectual and academic circle ⓘ |
| notableFor | marriage to William Whewell ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | William Whewell ⓘ |
| 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: Cordelia Whewell Description of subject: Cordelia Whewell was the wife of 19th-century English polymath and philosopher William Whewell, known primarily through her marriage into his intellectual and academic circle.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Janet Whewell