Cotton Mather Smith
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Cotton Mather Smith was an American Congregational minister and influential religious figure in colonial and early post-Revolutionary Connecticut.
All labels observed (1)
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| Cotton Mather Smith canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T16896676 — 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: Cotton Mather Smith Context triple: [John Cotton Smith, father, Cotton Mather Smith]
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A.
Elisha Williams
Elisha Williams was an 18th-century American clergyman, lawyer, and educator who served as a prominent early leader of Yale College.
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B.
Hosea Ballou
Hosea Ballou was a prominent 19th-century American Universalist theologian and minister whose writings and preaching helped shape and popularize Universalist doctrine in the United States.
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C.
Samuel Hopkins
Samuel Hopkins was an 18th-century American Congregationalist theologian known for developing a rigorous Calvinist system later called Hopkinsianism, which became a central strand of New England theology.
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D.
Samuel Hopkins
Samuel Hopkins was an American Revolutionary War officer and early Kentucky statesman after whom the city of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, is named.
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E.
Rufus Sewall
Rufus Sewall is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the Sewall surname.
- 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: Cotton Mather Smith Target entity description: Cotton Mather Smith was an American Congregational minister and influential religious figure in colonial and early post-Revolutionary Connecticut.
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A.
Elisha Williams
Elisha Williams was an 18th-century American clergyman, lawyer, and educator who served as a prominent early leader of Yale College.
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B.
Hosea Ballou
Hosea Ballou was a prominent 19th-century American Universalist theologian and minister whose writings and preaching helped shape and popularize Universalist doctrine in the United States.
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C.
Samuel Hopkins
Samuel Hopkins was an American Revolutionary War officer and early Kentucky statesman after whom the city of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, is named.
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D.
Samuel Hopkins
Samuel Hopkins was an 18th-century American Congregationalist theologian known for developing a rigorous Calvinist system later called Hopkinsianism, which became a central strand of New England theology.
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E.
Rufus Sewall
Rufus Sewall is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the Sewall surname.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
John Cotton Smith (as Governor of Connecticut)