Sophronia Smith
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Sophronia Smith was an early 19th-century American woman best known as the older sister of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sophronia Smith canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1968922 — 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: Sophronia Smith Context triple: [Joseph Smith, sibling, Sophronia Smith]
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A.
Samantha Winslow
Samantha Winslow is an American photographer and the wife of renowned film composer John Williams.
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B.
Evelyn Wade
Evelyn Wade was the wife of British mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, known primarily in relation to his personal and intellectual life.
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C.
Emily Sargent
Emily Sargent was a British artist and watercolorist, best known for her landscapes and for being part of the culturally prominent Sargent family.
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D.
Sarah Cloyce
Sarah Cloyce was a woman accused during the Salem witch trials, known for being the sister of fellow accused Rebecca Nurse and for later helping to challenge the legitimacy of the proceedings.
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E.
Sophia Jesty
Sophia Jesty is an American woman known for being one of the plaintiffs challenging Tennessee’s ban on same-sex marriage in the landmark case Tanco v. Haslam.
- 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: Sophronia Smith Target entity description: Sophronia Smith was an early 19th-century American woman best known as the older sister of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement.
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A.
Samantha Winslow
Samantha Winslow is an American photographer and the wife of renowned film composer John Williams.
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B.
Evelyn Wade
Evelyn Wade was the wife of British mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, known primarily in relation to his personal and intellectual life.
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C.
Emily Sargent
Emily Sargent was a British artist and watercolorist, best known for her landscapes and for being part of the culturally prominent Sargent family.
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D.
Sarah Cloyce
Sarah Cloyce was a woman accused during the Salem witch trials, known for being the sister of fellow accused Rebecca Nurse and for later helping to challenge the legitimacy of the proceedings.
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E.
Sophia Jesty
Sophia Jesty is an American woman known for being one of the plaintiffs challenging Tennessee’s ban on same-sex marriage in the landmark case Tanco v. Haslam.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
19th-century American woman
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | American ⓘ |
| familyName | Smith ⓘ |
| givenName | Sophronia ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the older sister of Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | United States of America ⓘ |
| relative | Joseph Smith ⓘ |
| religiousContext |
Latter Day Saint movement
ⓘ
linked to:
Latter-day Saint movement churches
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| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| sibling | Joseph Smith ⓘ |
| timePeriod | early 19th century ⓘ |
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: Sophronia Smith Description of subject: Sophronia Smith was an early 19th-century American woman best known as the older sister of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.