Elizabeth Shewell
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Elizabeth Shewell was the wife of Anglo-American painter Benjamin West and a member of a prominent Philadelphia Quaker family in the 18th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Elizabeth Shewell canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3172254 — 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: Elizabeth Shewell Context triple: [Benjamin West, spouse, Elizabeth Shewell]
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A.
Elizabeth Minshull
Elizabeth Minshull was the third wife and later-life caretaker of the English poet John Milton, whom she married in 1663.
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B.
Bronwen Maddox
Bronwen Maddox is a British journalist and policy analyst who has held prominent leadership roles in UK public policy and media organizations.
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C.
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.
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D.
Anne Heywood
Anne Heywood is a British actress known for her film and television roles from the 1950s through the 1970s, often portraying strong, complex female characters.
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E.
Elizabeth Alington
Elizabeth Alington was a British aristocrat and the wife of Conservative politician and former UK Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home.
- 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: Elizabeth Shewell Target entity description: Elizabeth Shewell was the wife of Anglo-American painter Benjamin West and a member of a prominent Philadelphia Quaker family in the 18th century.
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A.
Elizabeth Minshull
Elizabeth Minshull was the third wife and later-life caretaker of the English poet John Milton, whom she married in 1663.
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B.
Bronwen Maddox
Bronwen Maddox is a British journalist and policy analyst who has held prominent leadership roles in UK public policy and media organizations.
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C.
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.
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D.
Anne Heywood
Anne Heywood is a British actress known for her film and television roles from the 1950s through the 1970s, often portraying strong, complex female characters.
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E.
Elizabeth Alington
Elizabeth Alington was a British aristocrat and the wife of Conservative politician and former UK Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical figure
ⓘ
human ⓘ human ⓘ painter ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Benjamin West
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Philadelphia ⓘ Quakerism in Pennsylvania ⓘ
surface form:
Quakers in Pennsylvania
|
| birthPlace | Springfield, Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 18th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | British America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Anglo-American ⓘ |
| familyName | Shewell ⓘ |
| givenName | Elizabeth ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Quakerism in Pennsylvania
ⓘ
surface form:
Philadelphia Quaker community
|
| movement | Neoclassicism ⓘ |
| notableFamily | Shewell family ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Penn's Treaty with the Indians
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The Death of General Wolfe by Benjamin West ⓘ
surface form:
The Death of General Wolfe
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| occupation | painter ⓘ |
| religion |
Religious Society of Friends
ⓘ
surface form:
Quakerism
|
| residence | Philadelphia ⓘ |
| spouse |
Benjamin West
ⓘ
Elizabeth Shewell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation | painter ⓘ |
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: Elizabeth Shewell Description of subject: Elizabeth Shewell was the wife of Anglo-American painter Benjamin West and a member of a prominent Philadelphia Quaker family in the 18th century.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.