Evelyn Clark Colfax
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Evelyn Clark Colfax was the wife of Schuyler Colfax, the 17th Vice President of the United States, and a member of a prominent 19th-century American political family.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Evelyn Clark Colfax canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2959850 — 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: Evelyn Clark Colfax Context triple: [Schuyler Colfax, spouse, Evelyn Clark Colfax]
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A.
Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur
Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur was the First Lady of the United States during part of Chester A. Arthur’s presidency, remembered for her social grace and her early death before fully assuming White House duties.
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B.
Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison
Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison was the First Lady of the United States in 1841 as the wife of President William Henry Harrison and is noted for never having lived in the White House during his brief term.
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C.
Schuyler Colfax
Schuyler Colfax was an American politician who served as the 17th vice president of the United States and a prominent Republican leader during the Reconstruction era.
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D.
William Addams
William Addams was an American politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania in the early 19th century.
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E.
Grace Elvina Hinds
Grace Elvina Hinds was an American-born socialite best known as the second wife of British statesman and former Viceroy of India, Lord Curzon.
- 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: Evelyn Clark Colfax Target entity description: Evelyn Clark Colfax was the wife of Schuyler Colfax, the 17th Vice President of the United States, and a member of a prominent 19th-century American political family.
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A.
Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur
Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur was the First Lady of the United States during part of Chester A. Arthur’s presidency, remembered for her social grace and her early death before fully assuming White House duties.
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B.
Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison
Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison was the First Lady of the United States in 1841 as the wife of President William Henry Harrison and is noted for never having lived in the White House during his brief term.
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C.
Schuyler Colfax
Schuyler Colfax was an American politician who served as the 17th vice president of the United States and a prominent Republican leader during the Reconstruction era.
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D.
William Addams
William Addams was an American politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania in the early 19th century.
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E.
Grace Elvina Hinds
Grace Elvina Hinds was an American-born socialite best known as the second wife of British statesman and former Viceroy of India, Lord Curzon.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
19th-century American woman
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human ⓘ political spouse ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Colfax family ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of Schuyler Colfax ⓘ |
| partOf | 19th-century American political families ⓘ |
| positionHeld | 17th Vice President of the United States ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| spouse |
Evelyn Clark Colfax
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Schuyler Colfax ⓘ |
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: Evelyn Clark Colfax Description of subject: Evelyn Clark Colfax was the wife of Schuyler Colfax, the 17th Vice President of the United States, and a member of a prominent 19th-century American political family.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Evelyn Clark Colfax