Elizabeth Thorn
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Elizabeth Thorn was a German-born caretaker of Evergreen Cemetery in Gettysburg who became notable for burying numerous soldiers after the Battle of Gettysburg while six months pregnant.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Elizabeth Thorn canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6620920 — 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 Thorn Context triple: [Evergreen Cemetery, hasNotableBurials, Elizabeth Thorn]
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A.
Rowena Morrill
Rowena Morrill was an influential American science fiction and fantasy artist renowned for her vivid, imaginative book and magazine cover illustrations.
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B.
Charlotte Garrigue
Charlotte Garrigue was an American-born woman who became the wife of Czechoslovakia’s first president, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, and an influential figure in his intellectual and political life.
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C.
Elizabeth Barker
Elizabeth Barker was the wife of Mayflower passenger and early Plymouth Colony leader Edward Winslow, making her part of the first generation of English settlers in New England.
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D.
Silverthorn
Silverthorn is a residential neighbourhood in the former city of York, now part of Toronto, Ontario, known for its hilly streets and diverse community.
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E.
Katherine Thorn
Katherine Thorn is a central character in the 1976 horror film "The Omen," portrayed as the adoptive mother of the sinister child Damien.
- 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 Thorn Target entity description: Elizabeth Thorn was a German-born caretaker of Evergreen Cemetery in Gettysburg who became notable for burying numerous soldiers after the Battle of Gettysburg while six months pregnant.
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A.
Rowena Morrill
Rowena Morrill was an influential American science fiction and fantasy artist renowned for her vivid, imaginative book and magazine cover illustrations.
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B.
Charlotte Garrigue
Charlotte Garrigue was an American-born woman who became the wife of Czechoslovakia’s first president, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, and an influential figure in his intellectual and political life.
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C.
Elizabeth Barker
Elizabeth Barker was the wife of Mayflower passenger and early Plymouth Colony leader Edward Winslow, making her part of the first generation of English settlers in New England.
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D.
Silverthorn
Silverthorn is a residential neighbourhood in the former city of York, now part of Toronto, Ontario, known for its hilly streets and diverse community.
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E.
Katherine Thorn
Katherine Thorn is a central character in the 1976 horror film "The Omen," portrayed as the adoptive mother of the sinister child Damien.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cemetery caretaker
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person ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| buried |
Confederate soldiers at Gettysburg
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Union soldiers at Gettysburg ⓘ hundreds of soldiers after the Battle of Gettysburg ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Germany ⓘ |
| employer | Evergreen Cemetery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | German ⓘ |
| familyName | Thorn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Elizabeth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMonument | monument to Elizabeth Thorn at Evergreen Cemetery ⓘ |
| notableFor |
burying soldiers after the Battle of Gettysburg
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caretaking Evergreen Cemetery during and after the Battle of Gettysburg ⓘ |
| occupation |
caretaker
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sexton ⓘ |
| participatedIn | aftermath of the Battle of Gettysburg ⓘ |
| placeOfBurial | Evergreen Cemetery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
caretaker of Evergreen Cemetery
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sexton of Evergreen Cemetery ⓘ |
| relative | Peter Thorn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Gettysburg, Pennsylvania NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| significantEvent | buried numerous soldiers while six months pregnant ⓘ |
| spouse | Peter Thorn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
historical accounts of the Battle of Gettysburg aftermath
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local Gettysburg commemorations ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Evergreen Cemetery
NERFINISHED
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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 Thorn Description of subject: Elizabeth Thorn was a German-born caretaker of Evergreen Cemetery in Gettysburg who became notable for burying numerous soldiers after the Battle of Gettysburg while six months pregnant.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.