Coffin
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Coffin is a surname of English origin borne by various notable individuals, including American clergyman and social activist William Sloane Coffin.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Coffin canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5379868 — 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: Coffin Context triple: [William Sloane Coffin, familyName, Coffin]
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A.
Toten
Toten is a traditional rural district in eastern Norway known for its agriculture and scenic landscape, located within Innlandet county.
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B.
The Grave
"The Grave" is a 1961 episode of the anthology television series The Twilight Zone, featuring a tense Western ghost story about a lawman who must confront the vengeful spirit of an outlaw he failed to capture alive.
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C.
The Grave
The Grave is a long meditative poem by Scottish poet Robert Blair, often cited as a key work of the 18th-century Graveyard school for its somber reflections on death and mortality.
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D.
Office of the Dead
The Office of the Dead is a traditional set of prayers in the Roman Catholic liturgy, recited for the souls of the deceased, especially in connection with funerals and All Souls’ Day.
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E.
The Ghost
The Ghost is the spectral apparition of Hamlet’s deceased father in Shakespeare’s tragedy, whose revelations set the play’s revenge plot in motion.
- 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: Coffin Target entity description: Coffin is a surname of English origin borne by various notable individuals, including American clergyman and social activist William Sloane Coffin.
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A.
Toten
Toten is a traditional rural district in eastern Norway known for its agriculture and scenic landscape, located within Innlandet county.
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B.
The Grave
The Grave is a long meditative poem by Scottish poet Robert Blair, often cited as a key work of the 18th-century Graveyard school for its somber reflections on death and mortality.
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C.
The Grave
"The Grave" is a 1961 episode of the anthology television series The Twilight Zone, featuring a tense Western ghost story about a lawman who must confront the vengeful spirit of an outlaw he failed to capture alive.
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D.
Office of the Dead
The Office of the Dead is a traditional set of prayers in the Roman Catholic liturgy, recited for the souls of the deceased, especially in connection with funerals and All Souls’ Day.
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E.
The Ghost
The Ghost is the spectral apparition of Hamlet’s deceased father in Shakespeare’s tragedy, whose revelations set the play’s revenge plot in motion.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
surname ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Pulitzer Prize for Poetry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Union Theological Seminary
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Yale University ⓘ |
| familyName | Coffin ⓘ |
| givenName |
Sloane
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
William ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Charles A. Coffin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Henry Sloane Coffin NERFINISHED ⓘ Levi Coffin NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert P. T. Coffin NERFINISHED ⓘ Tristram Coffin NERFINISHED ⓘ William Sloane Coffin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement |
American civil rights movement
ⓘ
surface form:
civil rights movement
peace movement ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Underground Railroad conductor
ⓘ
anti–Vietnam War activism ⓘ civil rights activism ⓘ early settler of Nantucket ⓘ first president of General Electric ⓘ |
| occupation |
Christian minister
ⓘ
abolitionist ⓘ businessman ⓘ clergyman ⓘ industrialist ⓘ poet ⓘ settler ⓘ social activist ⓘ theologian ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
chaplain of Yale University
ⓘ
senior minister of Riverside Church ⓘ |
| religion |
Christianity
ⓘ
Protestant Christianity ⓘ
surface form:
Protestantism
|
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: Coffin Description of subject: Coffin is a surname of English origin borne by various notable individuals, including American clergyman and social activist William Sloane Coffin.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.