Rebecca Greenleaf Webster
E305360
Rebecca Greenleaf Webster was the wife of American lexicographer Noah Webster and a member of the prominent Greenleaf family of Boston.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Rebecca Greenleaf Webster canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1723018 — 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: Rebecca Greenleaf Webster Context triple: [Noah Webster, spouse, Rebecca Greenleaf Webster]
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A.
Catherine Robbins Lyman
Catherine Robbins Lyman was an American woman of New England background best known as the mother of Sara Ann Delano and thus a maternal ancestor of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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B.
Judith Bayard
Judith Bayard was a member of the prominent Bayard family in New Netherland and the wife of colonial governor Peter Stuyvesant, linking two influential dynastic lines in early New York history.
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C.
Elizabeth Cabot
Elizabeth Cabot is the namesake of the Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Directorship at the Harvard Art Museums, reflecting her significant association with and support for the institution.
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D.
Emma T. Townsend
Emma T. Townsend was the wife of prominent American steel industry magnate and U.S. Steel co-founder Elbert H. Gary.
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E.
Ellen Ewing Sherman
Ellen Ewing Sherman was a 19th-century American Catholic socialite and philanthropist, best known as the politically connected wife of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman and the foster daughter of influential politician Thomas Ewing.
- 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: Rebecca Greenleaf Webster Target entity description: Rebecca Greenleaf Webster was the wife of American lexicographer Noah Webster and a member of the prominent Greenleaf family of Boston.
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A.
Catherine Robbins Lyman
Catherine Robbins Lyman was an American woman of New England background best known as the mother of Sara Ann Delano and thus a maternal ancestor of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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B.
Judith Bayard
Judith Bayard was a member of the prominent Bayard family in New Netherland and the wife of colonial governor Peter Stuyvesant, linking two influential dynastic lines in early New York history.
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C.
Elizabeth Cabot
Elizabeth Cabot is the namesake of the Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Directorship at the Harvard Art Museums, reflecting her significant association with and support for the institution.
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D.
Emma T. Townsend
Emma T. Townsend was the wife of prominent American steel industry magnate and U.S. Steel co-founder Elbert H. Gary.
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E.
Ellen Ewing Sherman
Ellen Ewing Sherman was a 19th-century American Catholic socialite and philanthropist, best known as the politically connected wife of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman and the foster daughter of influential politician Thomas Ewing.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| birthName | Rebecca Greenleaf ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity |
18th century
ⓘ
19th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | European American ⓘ |
| familyName | Webster ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Rebecca ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Greenleaf family
ⓘ
Greenleaf family of Boston ⓘ |
| name | Rebecca Greenleaf Webster ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a member of the prominent Greenleaf family of Boston
ⓘ
being the wife of American lexicographer Noah Webster ⓘ |
| notableRelative |
Greenleaf family members
ⓘ
Noah Webster ⓘ |
| occupation | homemaker ⓘ |
| religion |
Protestantism
ⓘ
linked to:
Protestant Christianity
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| residence |
Boston
ⓘ
New Haven, Connecticut ⓘ New York City ⓘ |
| spouse |
Noah Webster
ⓘ
Rebecca Greenleaf Webster ⓘ |
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: Rebecca Greenleaf Webster Description of subject: Rebecca Greenleaf Webster was the wife of American lexicographer Noah Webster and a member of the prominent Greenleaf family of Boston.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.