Elizabeth Wells
E250543
Elizabeth Wells was the wife of American Founding Father and revolutionary leader Samuel Adams.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Elizabeth Wells canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T728885 — 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: Elizabeth Wells Context triple: [Samuel Adams, spouse, Elizabeth Wells]
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A.
Sarah Pierpont Edwards
Sarah Pierpont Edwards was an 18th-century American religious figure and diarist known for her deep piety, influential role in the First Great Awakening, and partnership in ministry with theologian Jonathan Edwards.
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B.
Elizabeth Coombs Adams
Elizabeth Coombs Adams was a member of the prominent Adams family of early American political life, known as the daughter of Thomas Boylston Adams and granddaughter of President John Adams.
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C.
Lydia Gardner Happer
Lydia Gardner Happer was the wife of U.S. Army General Maxwell D. Taylor, a prominent military leader and diplomat of the mid-20th century.
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D.
Elizabeth C. Ware
Elizabeth C. Ware was a benefactor whose financial support helped make possible the creation or acquisition of the renowned Blaschka Glass Models of Plants.
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E.
Emily Warren
Emily Warren was an American engineer and women’s rights advocate best known for her crucial role in overseeing the completion of the Brooklyn Bridge in the late 19th century.
- 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: Elizabeth Wells Target entity description: Elizabeth Wells was the wife of American Founding Father and revolutionary leader Samuel Adams.
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A.
Sarah Pierpont Edwards
Sarah Pierpont Edwards was an 18th-century American religious figure and diarist known for her deep piety, influential role in the First Great Awakening, and partnership in ministry with theologian Jonathan Edwards.
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B.
Elizabeth Coombs Adams
Elizabeth Coombs Adams was a member of the prominent Adams family of early American political life, known as the daughter of Thomas Boylston Adams and granddaughter of President John Adams.
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C.
Lydia Gardner Happer
Lydia Gardner Happer was the wife of U.S. Army General Maxwell D. Taylor, a prominent military leader and diplomat of the mid-20th century.
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D.
Elizabeth C. Ware
Elizabeth C. Ware was a benefactor whose financial support helped make possible the creation or acquisition of the renowned Blaschka Glass Models of Plants.
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E.
Emily Warren
Emily Warren was an American engineer and women’s rights advocate best known for her crucial role in overseeing the completion of the Brooklyn Bridge in the late 19th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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United States of America ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a Founding Father of the United States
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being the wife of American Founding Father Samuel Adams ⓘ role in the American Revolution ⓘ |
| occupation |
political philosopher
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politician ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Governor of Massachusetts ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse |
Elizabeth Wells
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Samuel Adams ⓘ |
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: Elizabeth Wells Description of subject: Elizabeth Wells was the wife of American Founding Father and revolutionary leader Samuel Adams.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Elizabeth Wells