Julia Ward
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Julia Ward was an American poet, author, and social activist best known for writing the lyrics to "The Battle Hymn of the Republic."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Julia Ward canonical | 2 |
| Julia Ward Williams Garnet | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T438723 — 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: Julia Ward Context triple: [Julia Ward Howe, birthName, Julia Ward]
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Margaret Kemble Gage
Margaret Kemble Gage was an American-born socialite of the colonial era, best known as the wife of British General Thomas Gage and for later speculation that she may have secretly warned American patriots of British military plans before the Revolutionary War.
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B.
Mary Ingersoll
Mary Ingersoll was the wife of American mathematician and navigator Nathaniel Bowditch, known primarily through her association with his life and work in early 19th-century New England.
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C.
Harriet Brackett Spence Lowell
Harriet Brackett Spence Lowell was the mother of American poet and critic James Russell Lowell and a member of the prominent Lowell family of New England.
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D.
Mary Harris Thompson
Mary Harris Thompson was a pioneering American physician and surgeon who founded Chicago’s first hospital for women and children and became one of the earliest prominent female surgeons in the United States.
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E.
Esther Stoddard Edwards
Esther Stoddard Edwards was the daughter of prominent American theologian Jonathan Edwards and a member of the influential Edwards-Stoddard New England clerical family.
- 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: Julia Ward Target entity description: Julia Ward was an American poet, author, and social activist best known for writing the lyrics to "The Battle Hymn of the Republic."
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A.
Margaret Kemble Gage
Margaret Kemble Gage was an American-born socialite of the colonial era, best known as the wife of British General Thomas Gage and for later speculation that she may have secretly warned American patriots of British military plans before the Revolutionary War.
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B.
Mary Ingersoll
Mary Ingersoll was the wife of American mathematician and navigator Nathaniel Bowditch, known primarily through her association with his life and work in early 19th-century New England.
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C.
Harriet Brackett Spence Lowell
Harriet Brackett Spence Lowell was the mother of American poet and critic James Russell Lowell and a member of the prominent Lowell family of New England.
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D.
Mary Harris Thompson
Mary Harris Thompson was a pioneering American physician and surgeon who founded Chicago’s first hospital for women and children and became one of the earliest prominent female surgeons in the United States.
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E.
Esther Stoddard Edwards
Esther Stoddard Edwards was the daughter of prominent American theologian Jonathan Edwards and a member of the influential Edwards-Stoddard New England clerical family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Julia Ward Description of subject: Julia Ward was an American poet, author, and social activist best known for writing the lyrics to "The Battle Hymn of the Republic."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.