Cordelia Cole Butler
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Cordelia Cole Butler was the wife of American lawyer, abolitionist, and university founder Ovid Butler, and a member of the prominent Butler family of Indiana.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cordelia Cole Butler canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11804052 — 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 Cole Butler Context triple: [Ovid Butler, spouse, Cordelia Cole Butler]
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A.
Cordelia Knott
Cordelia Knott was an American entrepreneur and restaurateur who helped transform her family’s berry stand and fried chicken restaurant into the famed Southern California theme park Knott’s Berry Farm.
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B.
Cordelia Scaife May
Cordelia Scaife May was an American heiress and philanthropist known for her substantial Mellon family inheritance and for funding influential anti-immigration and population control organizations.
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C.
Cordelia Naismith
Cordelia Naismith is the intelligent, principled starship captain and later political leader who serves as the central protagonist in Lois McMaster Bujold’s early Vorkosigan Saga novels.
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D.
Cordelia Fisher
Cordelia Fisher was a member of the prominent Fisher family connected to British intellectual and social circles in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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E.
Elizabeth McCord
Elizabeth McCord is the principled and pragmatic U.S. Secretary of State at the center of the political drama series "Madam Secretary," known for her diplomatic skill and moral conviction.
- 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 Cole Butler Target entity description: Cordelia Cole Butler was the wife of American lawyer, abolitionist, and university founder Ovid Butler, and a member of the prominent Butler family of Indiana.
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A.
Cordelia Knott
Cordelia Knott was an American entrepreneur and restaurateur who helped transform her family’s berry stand and fried chicken restaurant into the famed Southern California theme park Knott’s Berry Farm.
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B.
Cordelia Scaife May
Cordelia Scaife May was an American heiress and philanthropist known for her substantial Mellon family inheritance and for funding influential anti-immigration and population control organizations.
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C.
Cordelia Naismith
Cordelia Naismith is the intelligent, principled starship captain and later political leader who serves as the central protagonist in Lois McMaster Bujold’s early Vorkosigan Saga novels.
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D.
Cordelia Fisher
Cordelia Fisher was a member of the prominent Fisher family connected to British intellectual and social circles in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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E.
Elizabeth McCord
Elizabeth McCord is the principled and pragmatic U.S. Secretary of State at the center of the political drama series "Madam Secretary," known for her diplomatic skill and moral conviction.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family
ⓘ
human ⓘ human ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Butler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Cordelia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMember |
Cordelia Cole Butler
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ovid Butler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | Butler family of Indiana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | abolitionism ⓘ |
| name | Cordelia Cole Butler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableRelative | Ovid Butler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | founding of Butler University ⓘ |
| occupation | lawyer ⓘ |
| residence |
Indiana
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Indiana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse |
Cordelia Cole Butler
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ovid Butler 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: Cordelia Cole Butler Description of subject: Cordelia Cole Butler was the wife of American lawyer, abolitionist, and university founder Ovid Butler, and a member of the prominent Butler family of Indiana.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.