Katherine Rogers
E17741
Katherine Rogers was the mother of John Harvard, the English clergyman whose bequest helped found Harvard College in colonial Massachusetts.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Katherine Rogers canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5274 — 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: Katherine Rogers Context triple: [John Harvard, mother, Katherine Rogers]
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A.
Ann Sadler
Ann Sadler was the wife of John Harvard, the English clergyman and benefactor after whom Harvard University is named.
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B.
Katherine Puening
Katherine Puening, better known as Kitty Oppenheimer, was a German-born American biologist and former Communist Party member who became the wife and close confidante of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer.
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C.
Emma Savage Rogers
Emma Savage Rogers was the wife of William Barton Rogers, the 19th-century American geologist and founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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D.
Katherine Oppenheimer
Katherine Oppenheimer was an American biologist and former Communist Party member best known as the politically controversial wife of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer during the Manhattan Project era.
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E.
Melba Phillips
Melba Phillips was an influential American physicist and educator known for her work in theoretical physics and for coauthoring the Oppenheimer–Phillips process in nuclear physics.
- 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: Katherine Rogers Target entity description: Katherine Rogers was the mother of John Harvard, the English clergyman whose bequest helped found Harvard College in colonial Massachusetts.
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A.
Ann Sadler
Ann Sadler was the wife of John Harvard, the English clergyman and benefactor after whom Harvard University is named.
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B.
Katherine Puening
Katherine Puening, better known as Kitty Oppenheimer, was a German-born American biologist and former Communist Party member who became the wife and close confidante of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer.
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C.
Emma Savage Rogers
Emma Savage Rogers was the wife of William Barton Rogers, the 19th-century American geologist and founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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D.
Katherine Oppenheimer
Katherine Oppenheimer was an American biologist and former Communist Party member best known as the politically controversial wife of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer during the Manhattan Project era.
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E.
Melba Phillips
Melba Phillips was an influential American physicist and educator known for her work in theoretical physics and for coauthoring the Oppenheimer–Phillips process in nuclear physics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
college
ⓘ
human ⓘ human ⓘ mother ⓘ |
| child | John Harvard ⓘ |
| country |
Colonial Massachusetts
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linked to:
Province of Massachusetts Bay
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| countryOfCitizenship |
Kingdom of England
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Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Massachusetts Bay Colony ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the mother of John Harvard
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bequest that helped found Harvard College ⓘ |
| notableRelative | John Harvard ⓘ |
| occupation | clergyman ⓘ |
| residence | England ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
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: Katherine Rogers Description of subject: Katherine Rogers was the mother of John Harvard, the English clergyman whose bequest helped found Harvard College in colonial Massachusetts.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.