Lydia Howland
E229834
Lydia Howland was a daughter of Mayflower passenger John Howland, belonging to one of the early colonial families of Plymouth Colony.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lydia Howland canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1068642 — 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: Lydia Howland Context triple: [John Howland, child, Lydia Howland]
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A.
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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B.
Elizabeth Howland
Elizabeth Howland was a colonial-era New England woman known primarily as a daughter of Mayflower passenger and Plymouth Colony settler John Howland.
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C.
Mary Grace Slattery
Mary Grace Slattery was the first wife of American playwright Arthur Miller, whom he married before achieving his major theatrical success.
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D.
Elizabeth Reaser
Elizabeth Reaser is an American actress best known for her roles in the Twilight film series and the television drama Grey's Anatomy.
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E.
Emma T. Townsend
Emma T. Townsend was the wife of prominent American steel industry magnate and U.S. Steel co-founder Elbert H. Gary.
- 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: Lydia Howland Target entity description: Lydia Howland was a daughter of Mayflower passenger John Howland, belonging to one of the early colonial families of Plymouth Colony.
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A.
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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B.
Elizabeth Howland
Elizabeth Howland was a colonial-era New England woman known primarily as a daughter of Mayflower passenger and Plymouth Colony settler John Howland.
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C.
Mary Grace Slattery
Mary Grace Slattery was the first wife of American playwright Arthur Miller, whom he married before achieving his major theatrical success.
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D.
Elizabeth Reaser
Elizabeth Reaser is an American actress best known for her roles in the Twilight film series and the television drama Grey's Anatomy.
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E.
Emma T. Townsend
Emma T. Townsend was the wife of prominent American steel industry magnate and U.S. Steel co-founder Elbert H. Gary.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Mayflower passenger
ⓘ
Mayflower passenger ⓘ historical figure ⓘ human ⓘ |
| childOf |
Elizabeth Tilley
ⓘ
John Howland ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Plymouth Colony ⓘ |
| ethnicity | English colonist ⓘ |
| familyName | Howland ⓘ |
| givenName | Lydia ⓘ |
| hasFather | John Howland ⓘ |
| hasMother | Elizabeth Tilley ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Howland family
ⓘ
early colonial families of Plymouth Colony ⓘ |
| notableFamilyConnection | daughter of Mayflower passenger John Howland ⓘ |
| passengerOn |
Mayflower
ⓘ
Mayflower ⓘ |
| residence | Plymouth Colony ⓘ |
| spouse | Elizabeth Tilley ⓘ |
| timePeriod | early colonial period of New England ⓘ |
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: Lydia Howland Description of subject: Lydia Howland was a daughter of Mayflower passenger John Howland, belonging to one of the early colonial families of Plymouth Colony.
Referenced by (6)
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