Sarah Story
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Sarah Story was the wife of 17th-century Puritan minister and theologian John Cotton, associated with early colonial New England.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sarah Story canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T911229 — 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: Sarah Story Context triple: [John Cotton, spouse, Sarah Story]
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A.
Patience Holt
Patience Holt was the wife of Sir Richard Arkwright, the pioneering English inventor and industrialist of the early textile factory system.
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B.
Mary Corinna Putnam
Mary Corinna Putnam was a pioneering American physician and medical researcher, recognized as one of the first women to earn a medical degree in the United States and a leading advocate for women in medicine.
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C.
Mary Tayloe Lloyd
Mary Tayloe Lloyd was an American woman from a prominent Maryland family best known as the wife of Francis Scott Key, author of the U.S. national anthem.
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D.
Frances Appleton
Frances Appleton was the second wife of American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, remembered as his muse and a member of the prominent Boston Appleton family.
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E.
Elizabeth Flanagan
Elizabeth Flanagan was the wife of C. Everett Koop, the prominent U.S. Surgeon General known for his influential public health advocacy.
- 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: Sarah Story Target entity description: Sarah Story was the wife of 17th-century Puritan minister and theologian John Cotton, associated with early colonial New England.
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A.
Patience Holt
Patience Holt was the wife of Sir Richard Arkwright, the pioneering English inventor and industrialist of the early textile factory system.
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B.
Mary Corinna Putnam
Mary Corinna Putnam was a pioneering American physician and medical researcher, recognized as one of the first women to earn a medical degree in the United States and a leading advocate for women in medicine.
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C.
Mary Tayloe Lloyd
Mary Tayloe Lloyd was an American woman from a prominent Maryland family best known as the wife of Francis Scott Key, author of the U.S. national anthem.
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D.
Frances Appleton
Frances Appleton was the second wife of American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, remembered as his muse and a member of the prominent Boston Appleton family.
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E.
Elizabeth Flanagan
Elizabeth Flanagan was the wife of C. Everett Koop, the prominent U.S. Surgeon General known for his influential public health advocacy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical figure
ⓘ
person ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
John Cotton
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Puritan ministers ⓘ early colonial New England ⓘ |
| centuryOfMarriage | 17th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English people ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| historicalContext | early English colonization of North America ⓘ |
| historicalRegion | Massachusetts Bay Colony ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| lifeInvolves | migration between England and New England ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| marriedToOccupation | Puritan minister ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of Puritan minister John Cotton ⓘ |
| occupation | homemaker ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
England
ⓘ
New England ⓘ |
| religiousAffiliation | Puritanism ⓘ |
| religiousContext |
English Puritanism
ⓘ
linked to:
Puritanism
|
| socialRole | minister’s wife ⓘ |
| spouse | John Cotton ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation | theologian ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 17th century ⓘ |
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: Sarah Story Description of subject: Sarah Story was the wife of 17th-century Puritan minister and theologian John Cotton, associated with early colonial New England.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
New England clergyman John Cotton