Anne Yale
E491200
Anne Yale was a daughter of Elihu Yale, the wealthy British-American merchant and philanthropist after whom Yale University is named.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Anne Yale canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5068157 — 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: Anne Yale Context triple: [Elihu Yale, child, Anne Yale]
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A.
Elizabeth Browne
Elizabeth Browne was the wife of the pioneering English physician William Harvey, known for his discovery of the circulation of blood.
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B.
Elizabeth Browne
Elizabeth Browne was the wife of Robert Rogers, the famed 18th-century American frontiersman and leader of Rogers' Rangers.
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C.
Margaret Best Royall
Margaret Best Royall was the wife of Kenneth C. Royall, a prominent American lawyer, U.S. Secretary of War, and the last U.S. Secretary of the Army.
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D.
Elizabeth Cabot
Elizabeth Cabot is the namesake of the Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Directorship at the Harvard Art Museums, reflecting her significant association with and support for the institution.
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E.
Catherine Littlefield
Catherine Littlefield was an American Revolutionary-era plantation manager and the wife of General Nathanael Greene, noted for her role in supporting the Continental Army and later being associated with the development of the cotton gin.
- 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: Anne Yale Target entity description: Anne Yale was a daughter of Elihu Yale, the wealthy British-American merchant and philanthropist after whom Yale University is named.
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A.
Elizabeth Browne
Elizabeth Browne was the wife of the pioneering English physician William Harvey, known for his discovery of the circulation of blood.
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B.
Elizabeth Browne
Elizabeth Browne was the wife of Robert Rogers, the famed 18th-century American frontiersman and leader of Rogers' Rangers.
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C.
Margaret Best Royall
Margaret Best Royall was the wife of Kenneth C. Royall, a prominent American lawyer, U.S. Secretary of War, and the last U.S. Secretary of the Army.
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D.
Elizabeth Cabot
Elizabeth Cabot is the namesake of the Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Directorship at the Harvard Art Museums, reflecting her significant association with and support for the institution.
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E.
Catherine Littlefield
Catherine Littlefield was an American Revolutionary-era plantation manager and the wife of General Nathanael Greene, noted for her role in supporting the Continental Army and later being associated with the development of the cotton gin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical figure
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human ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Yale University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child | Anne Yale NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | English ⓘ |
| father | Elihu Yale NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Anne Yale NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFamily | Yale family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | being a daughter of Elihu Yale, namesake of Yale University ⓘ |
| placeInFamily | daughter of Elihu Yale ⓘ |
| relative | Elihu Yale NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
early 18th century
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late 17th 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: Anne Yale Description of subject: Anne Yale was a daughter of Elihu Yale, the wealthy British-American merchant and philanthropist after whom Yale University is named.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.