Desire Howland
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Desire Howland was a 17th-century New England colonist, known as the daughter of Mayflower passenger John Howland and a member of early Plymouth Colony society.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Desire Howland canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1068638 — 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: Desire Howland Context triple: [John Howland, child, Desire Howland]
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A.
Catharine Clinton Howland
Catharine Clinton Howland was the wife of prominent American architect Richard Morris Hunt and a member of the influential Howland family of New York.
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B.
Rebecca Brien Howland
Rebecca Brien Howland was the first wife of James Roosevelt I and the mother of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s half-brother, James Roosevelt Roosevelt.
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C.
Catherine Lyman Delano
Catherine Lyman Delano was a member of the prominent Delano family of New York, related to Sara Ann Delano and thus part of the extended family circle of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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D.
Elizabeth Cabot
Elizabeth Cabot is the namesake of the Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Directorship at the Harvard Art Museums, reflecting her significant association with and support for the institution.
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E.
Sara Ann Delano
Sara Ann Delano was an American socialite and the mother of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- 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: Desire Howland Target entity description: Desire Howland was a 17th-century New England colonist, known as the daughter of Mayflower passenger John Howland and a member of early Plymouth Colony society.
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A.
Catharine Clinton Howland
Catharine Clinton Howland was the wife of prominent American architect Richard Morris Hunt and a member of the influential Howland family of New York.
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B.
Rebecca Brien Howland
Rebecca Brien Howland was the first wife of James Roosevelt I and the mother of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s half-brother, James Roosevelt Roosevelt.
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C.
Catherine Lyman Delano
Catherine Lyman Delano was a member of the prominent Delano family of New York, related to Sara Ann Delano and thus part of the extended family circle of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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D.
Elizabeth Cabot
Elizabeth Cabot is the namesake of the Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Directorship at the Harvard Art Museums, reflecting her significant association with and support for the institution.
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E.
Sara Ann Delano
Sara Ann Delano was an American socialite and the mother of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
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: Desire Howland Description of subject: Desire Howland was a 17th-century New England colonist, known as the daughter of Mayflower passenger John Howland and a member of early Plymouth Colony society.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Mayflower passenger John Howland
subject linked to:
Mayflower passenger Elizabeth Tilley