Shippen
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Shippen is the surname of Peggy Shippen, a prominent Loyalist figure best known as the wife and co-conspirator of American Revolutionary War traitor Benedict Arnold.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shippen canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2478280 — 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: Shippen Context triple: [Peggy Shippen, familyName, Shippen]
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A.
Sooner Schooner
The Sooner Schooner is a covered wagon pulled by ponies that serves as the University of Oklahoma’s iconic game-day mascot, symbolizing the state’s pioneer and land run heritage.
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B.
Breezy Lovejoy
Breezy Lovejoy is the former stage name of American singer, rapper, drummer, and producer Anderson .Paak, used earlier in his music career.
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C.
Yankee Clipper
Yankee Clipper was the Apollo 12 command and service module spacecraft that carried astronauts to lunar orbit during NASA’s second Moon-landing mission.
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D.
Bluejacket
Bluejacket is the nickname and mascot representing the athletic teams and student body of Hibbing High School in Minnesota.
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E.
Evergreen Marine
Evergreen Marine is a major Taiwanese container shipping company known for operating one of the world’s largest fleets of container vessels.
- 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: Shippen Target entity description: Shippen is the surname of Peggy Shippen, a prominent Loyalist figure best known as the wife and co-conspirator of American Revolutionary War traitor Benedict Arnold.
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A.
Sooner Schooner
The Sooner Schooner is a covered wagon pulled by ponies that serves as the University of Oklahoma’s iconic game-day mascot, symbolizing the state’s pioneer and land run heritage.
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B.
Breezy Lovejoy
Breezy Lovejoy is the former stage name of American singer, rapper, drummer, and producer Anderson .Paak, used earlier in his music career.
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C.
Yankee Clipper
Yankee Clipper was the Apollo 12 command and service module spacecraft that carried astronauts to lunar orbit during NASA’s second Moon-landing mission.
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D.
Bluejacket
Bluejacket is the nickname and mascot representing the athletic teams and student body of Hibbing High School in Minnesota.
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E.
Evergreen Marine
Evergreen Marine is a major Taiwanese container shipping company known for operating one of the world’s largest fleets of container vessels.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family name
ⓘ
historical figure ⓘ person ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Margaret "Peggy" Shippen
ⓘ
linked to:
Peggy Shippen
Margaret Shippen ⓘ
linked to:
Peggy Shippen
|
| associatedWith |
British Army officer John André
ⓘ
linked to:
John André
|
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| dateOfBirth | 1760-07-11 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1804-08-24 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | American ⓘ |
| familyName | Shippen ⓘ |
| father | Edward Shippen IV ⓘ |
| genreOfActivity | political intrigue ⓘ |
| givenName | Margaret ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | American Revolutionary era ⓘ |
| household | Arnold family ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| marriageDate | 1779-04-08 ⓘ |
| mother | Margaret Francis ⓘ |
| movement | Loyalism ⓘ |
| notableEvent | involvement in the West Point treason plot ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Loyalist sympathies during the American Revolutionary War
ⓘ
role as wife and co-conspirator of Benedict Arnold ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 5 ⓘ |
| occupation | socialite ⓘ |
| participatedIn | American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
ⓘ
linked to:
Philadelphia
|
| placeOfDeath | London, England ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | Loyalist ⓘ |
| religion |
Anglicanism
ⓘ
linked to:
Anglicanism (broadly)
|
| residence |
London, England
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ⓘ
linked to:
Philadelphia
|
| roleInEvent | co-conspirator in Benedict Arnold's plot to surrender West Point ⓘ |
| socialClass | upper class ⓘ |
| spouse | Benedict Arnold ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Margaret Shippen
ⓘ
linked to:
Peggy Shippen
Peggy Shippen ⓘ |
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: Shippen Description of subject: Shippen is the surname of Peggy Shippen, a prominent Loyalist figure best known as the wife and co-conspirator of American Revolutionary War traitor Benedict Arnold.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.