Abigail Sherman
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Abigail Sherman was the wife of prominent New England clergyman Samuel Willard in colonial Massachusetts.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Abigail Sherman canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12931421 — 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: Abigail Sherman Context triple: [Samuel Willard, spouse, Abigail Sherman]
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A.
Abigail Wade
Abigail Wade is a person notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the surname Wade.
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B.
Abigail Brooks
Abigail Brooks was a 19th-century American woman best known as the wife of Charles Francis Adams Sr. and the mother of Civil War officer and railroad executive Charles Francis Adams Jr., belonging to the prominent Adams political family.
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C.
Abigail Kendall
Abigail Kendall is the daughter of Nobel Prize–winning American physicist Henry Way Kendall.
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D.
Abigail Johnson
Abigail Johnson is an American billionaire businesswoman who serves as the CEO of Fidelity Investments, one of the largest asset management firms in the world.
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E.
Abigail Hopkins
Abigail Hopkins is a British singer-songwriter and actress, known both for her own creative work and as the daughter of acclaimed actor Sir Anthony Hopkins.
- 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: Abigail Sherman Target entity description: Abigail Sherman was the wife of prominent New England clergyman Samuel Willard in colonial Massachusetts.
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A.
Abigail Wade
Abigail Wade is a person notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the surname Wade.
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B.
Abigail Brooks
Abigail Brooks was a 19th-century American woman best known as the wife of Charles Francis Adams Sr. and the mother of Civil War officer and railroad executive Charles Francis Adams Jr., belonging to the prominent Adams political family.
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C.
Abigail Kendall
Abigail Kendall is the daughter of Nobel Prize–winning American physicist Henry Way Kendall.
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D.
Abigail Johnson
Abigail Johnson is an American billionaire businesswoman who serves as the CEO of Fidelity Investments, one of the largest asset management firms in the world.
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E.
Abigail Hopkins
Abigail Hopkins is a British singer-songwriter and actress, known both for her own creative work and as the daughter of acclaimed actor Sir Anthony Hopkins.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical figure
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person ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
New England clergy
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Samuel Willard ⓘ |
| country | Colonial America ⓘ |
| familyName | Sherman ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Abigail ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of New England clergyman Samuel Willard ⓘ |
| occupation | clergyman's wife ⓘ |
| region | New England ⓘ |
| religiousContext | Puritanism ⓘ |
| residence |
Massachusetts Bay Colony
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colonial Massachusetts ⓘ |
| spouse | Samuel Willard ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation | clergyman ⓘ |
| spouseOf | Samuel Willard ⓘ |
| spouseRegion | New England ⓘ |
| timePeriod | colonial era ⓘ |
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: Abigail Sherman Description of subject: Abigail Sherman was the wife of prominent New England clergyman Samuel Willard in colonial Massachusetts.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.