Dorothy May
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Dorothy May was the first wife of Mayflower passenger and Plymouth Colony governor William Bradford, remembered for her tragic death by drowning shortly after arriving in America in 1620.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dorothy May canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T423035 — 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: Dorothy May Context triple: [William Bradford, spouse, Dorothy May]
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A.
Dorothy Revier
Dorothy Revier was an American silent and early sound film actress known for her roles in adventure and drama films of the 1920s and 1930s.
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B.
Dorothy Cotton
Dorothy Cotton was a prominent civil rights activist and educator who served as the education director for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and worked closely with Martin Luther King Jr.
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C.
Dorothy Price Vanderpool
Dorothy Price Vanderpool was the second wife of self-improvement pioneer Dale Carnegie, known for supporting and helping manage his professional and literary legacy.
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D.
Ruth Snyder
Ruth Snyder was an American woman infamously executed in 1928 for the murder of her husband, a case that became notorious due to a secretly photographed image of her electrocution published in the press.
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E.
Betty Irene Whitaker
Betty Irene Whitaker is the wife of Intel co-founder and philanthropist Gordon E. Moore and a partner in his philanthropic endeavors.
- 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: Dorothy May Target entity description: Dorothy May was the first wife of Mayflower passenger and Plymouth Colony governor William Bradford, remembered for her tragic death by drowning shortly after arriving in America in 1620.
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A.
Dorothy Revier
Dorothy Revier was an American silent and early sound film actress known for her roles in adventure and drama films of the 1920s and 1930s.
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B.
Dorothy Cotton
Dorothy Cotton was a prominent civil rights activist and educator who served as the education director for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and worked closely with Martin Luther King Jr.
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C.
Dorothy Price Vanderpool
Dorothy Price Vanderpool was the second wife of self-improvement pioneer Dale Carnegie, known for supporting and helping manage his professional and literary legacy.
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D.
Ruth Snyder
Ruth Snyder was an American woman infamously executed in 1928 for the murder of her husband, a case that became notorious due to a secretly photographed image of her electrocution published in the press.
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E.
Betty Irene Whitaker
Betty Irene Whitaker is the wife of Intel co-founder and philanthropist Gordon E. Moore and a partner in his philanthropic endeavors.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English woman
ⓘ
Mayflower passenger ⓘ historical person ⓘ |
| arrivalYearInAmerica | 1620 ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Mayflower
ⓘ
Plymouth Colony ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | drowning ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | England ⓘ |
| historicalEra | early 17th century ⓘ |
| name | Dorothy May ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the first wife of William Bradford
ⓘ
her death by drowning shortly after arriving in America in 1620 ⓘ |
| occupation | governor of Plymouth Colony ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Plymouth Harbor ⓘ |
| rememberedFor | tragic death by drowning after arrival in America ⓘ |
| spouse |
Dorothy May
ⓘ
William Bradford ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation | governor of Plymouth Colony ⓘ |
| spouseRole | Mayflower passenger ⓘ |
| yearOfDeath | 1620 ⓘ |
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: Dorothy May Description of subject: Dorothy May was the first wife of Mayflower passenger and Plymouth Colony governor William Bradford, remembered for her tragic death by drowning shortly after arriving in America in 1620.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.