Cornelia Bell
E262025
Cornelia Bell was the wife of William Paterson, a Founding Father and early U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cornelia Bell canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2328088 — 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: Cornelia Bell Context triple: [William Paterson, spouse, Cornelia Bell]
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A.
Cornelia Connelly
Cornelia Connelly was a 19th-century American-born Roman Catholic nun and educator who founded the Society of the Holy Child Jesus, a religious congregation dedicated to the education and spiritual formation of young people.
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B.
Cornelia Tappen
Cornelia Tappen was the wife of George Clinton, a prominent early American politician who served as both Governor of New York and Vice President of the United States.
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C.
Cornelia Postuma
Cornelia Postuma was the posthumous daughter of the Roman dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla, belonging to the powerful patrician Cornelii family in the late Roman Republic.
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D.
Cornelia
Cornelia is a feminine given name of Latin origin, historically associated with several notable women in European history.
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E.
Lucy Taliaferro
Lucy Taliaferro was a member of the prominent Virginia Carter–Lee family, connected to early American planter and political society.
- 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: Cornelia Bell Target entity description: Cornelia Bell was the wife of William Paterson, a Founding Father and early U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice.
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A.
Cornelia Connelly
Cornelia Connelly was a 19th-century American-born Roman Catholic nun and educator who founded the Society of the Holy Child Jesus, a religious congregation dedicated to the education and spiritual formation of young people.
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B.
Cornelia Tappen
Cornelia Tappen was the wife of George Clinton, a prominent early American politician who served as both Governor of New York and Vice President of the United States.
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C.
Cornelia Postuma
Cornelia Postuma was the posthumous daughter of the Roman dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla, belonging to the powerful patrician Cornelii family in the late Roman Republic.
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D.
Cornelia
Cornelia is a feminine given name of Latin origin, historically associated with several notable women in European history.
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E.
Lucy Taliaferro
Lucy Taliaferro was a member of the prominent Virginia Carter–Lee family, connected to early American planter and political society.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of William Paterson ⓘ |
| positionHeldBySpouse |
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
ⓘ
Governor of New Jersey ⓘ United States Senator from New Jersey ⓘ |
| relativeByMarriage |
Founding Father William Paterson
ⓘ
linked to:
William Paterson
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| spouse | William Paterson ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation |
jurist
ⓘ
politician ⓘ |
| spouseOf | William Paterson ⓘ |
| spouseSignificantEvent | signer of the United States Constitution ⓘ |
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: Cornelia Bell Description of subject: Cornelia Bell was the wife of William Paterson, a Founding Father and early U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.