Harriet Amanda Rector
E274925
Harriet Amanda Rector was the wife of Confederate general and postwar Dallas mayor William L. Cabell and a member of a prominent 19th-century Southern family.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Harriet Amanda Rector canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2182290 — 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: Harriet Amanda Rector Context triple: [William L. Cabell, spouse, Harriet Amanda Rector]
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A.
Harriet Pitt
Harriet Pitt was an 18th-century British actress and the daughter of statesman William Pitt the Elder.
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B.
Harriet Pitt
Harriet Pitt was an 18th-century British actress known for her work on the London stage and as the mother of actor and playwright Charles Dibdin the younger.
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C.
Henrietta Edwards
Henrietta Edwards was the wife of American inventor Eli Whitney, known for his creation of the cotton gin.
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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.
Henrietta Thompson
Henrietta Thompson was the mother of British Army officer General James Wolfe, famed for his victory at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham during the Seven Years' War.
- 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: Harriet Amanda Rector Target entity description: Harriet Amanda Rector was the wife of Confederate general and postwar Dallas mayor William L. Cabell and a member of a prominent 19th-century Southern family.
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A.
Harriet Pitt
Harriet Pitt was an 18th-century British actress and the daughter of statesman William Pitt the Elder.
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B.
Harriet Pitt
Harriet Pitt was an 18th-century British actress known for her work on the London stage and as the mother of actor and playwright Charles Dibdin the younger.
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C.
Henrietta Edwards
Henrietta Edwards was the wife of American inventor Eli Whitney, known for his creation of the cotton gin.
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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.
Henrietta Thompson
Henrietta Thompson was the mother of British Army officer General James Wolfe, famed for his victory at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham during the Seven Years' War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (18)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Confederate States of America
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Dallas, Texas political community ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White American ⓘ |
| familyName | Rector ⓘ |
| givenName |
Amanda
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Harriet ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| memberOf |
19th-century Southern elite
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Rector family ⓘ |
| notableFor |
association with post–Civil War civic life in Dallas, Texas
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being wife of Confederate general William L. Cabell ⓘ |
| relative | William L. Cabell ⓘ |
| residence | Dallas, Texas ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | William L. Cabell ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 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: Harriet Amanda Rector Description of subject: Harriet Amanda Rector was the wife of Confederate general and postwar Dallas mayor William L. Cabell and a member of a prominent 19th-century Southern family.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.