Elizabeth Jennings Ames
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Elizabeth Jennings Ames was the wife of American inventor Elias Howe, known for his pioneering work on the sewing machine.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Elizabeth Jennings Ames canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12935384 — 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 Jennings Ames Context triple: [Elias Howe, spouse, Elizabeth Jennings Ames]
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A.
Mary Coffin Ware
Mary Coffin Ware, later known as Mary Ware Dennett, was an American suffragist, sex education reformer, and advocate for birth control and civil liberties in the early 20th century.
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B.
Sarah Ballard
Sarah Ballard was the mother of renowned Victorian-era Shakespearean actress Ellen Terry.
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C.
Abigail Chase
Abigail Chase is a fictional historian and archivist who becomes a key ally and love interest to treasure hunter Benjamin Franklin Gates in the "National Treasure" film series.
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D.
Rebecca Chase
Rebecca Chase is a fictional character from the television series "NCIS," known primarily as one of Leroy Jethro Gibbs' ex-wives.
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E.
Judith Randolph
Judith Randolph was a member of the prominent Randolph family of Virginia’s planter aristocracy in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
- 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 Jennings Ames Target entity description: Elizabeth Jennings Ames was the wife of American inventor Elias Howe, known for his pioneering work on the sewing machine.
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A.
Mary Coffin Ware
Mary Coffin Ware, later known as Mary Ware Dennett, was an American suffragist, sex education reformer, and advocate for birth control and civil liberties in the early 20th century.
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B.
Sarah Ballard
Sarah Ballard was the mother of renowned Victorian-era Shakespearean actress Ellen Terry.
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C.
Abigail Chase
Abigail Chase is a fictional historian and archivist who becomes a key ally and love interest to treasure hunter Benjamin Franklin Gates in the "National Treasure" film series.
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D.
Rebecca Chase
Rebecca Chase is a fictional character from the television series "NCIS," known primarily as one of Leroy Jethro Gibbs' ex-wives.
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E.
Judith Randolph
Judith Randolph was a member of the prominent Randolph family of Virginia’s planter aristocracy in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (8)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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United States of America ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of American inventor Elias Howe ⓘ |
| notableWork | pioneering work on the sewing machine ⓘ |
| occupation | inventor ⓘ |
| spouse | Elias Howe ⓘ |
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 Jennings Ames Description of subject: Elizabeth Jennings Ames was the wife of American inventor Elias Howe, known for his pioneering work on the sewing machine.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.