Howard Coit
E359651
Howard Coit was the husband of San Francisco socialite and philanthropist Lillie Hitchcock Coit, after whom Coit Tower is named.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Howard Coit canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3151328 — 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: Howard Coit Context triple: [Lillie Hitchcock Coit, spouse, Howard Coit]
-
A.
William Cooper
William Cooper was an American land developer and judge best known as the founder of Cooperstown, New York, and the patriarch of the Cooper family that included novelist James Fenimore Cooper.
-
B.
William Cooper
William Cooper was an Aboriginal Australian activist and Yorta Yorta elder best known for his pioneering political advocacy for Indigenous rights and justice in the early 20th century.
-
C.
Charles Haid
Charles Haid is an American actor and director best known for his role as Officer Andy Renko on the television series "Hill Street Blues."
-
D.
Gene Milford
Gene Milford was an American film editor known for his work on numerous classic Hollywood films across several decades.
-
E.
John Requa
John Requa is an American screenwriter and director known for co-writing films such as "Bad Santa," "I Love You Phillip Morris," and "Jungle Cruise."
- 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: Howard Coit Target entity description: Howard Coit was the husband of San Francisco socialite and philanthropist Lillie Hitchcock Coit, after whom Coit Tower is named.
-
A.
William Cooper
William Cooper was an American land developer and judge best known as the founder of Cooperstown, New York, and the patriarch of the Cooper family that included novelist James Fenimore Cooper.
-
B.
William Cooper
William Cooper was an Aboriginal Australian activist and Yorta Yorta elder best known for his pioneering political advocacy for Indigenous rights and justice in the early 20th century.
-
C.
Charles Haid
Charles Haid is an American actor and director best known for his role as Officer Andy Renko on the television series "Hill Street Blues."
-
D.
Gene Milford
Gene Milford was an American film editor known for his work on numerous classic Hollywood films across several decades.
-
E.
John Requa
John Requa is an American screenwriter and director known for co-writing films such as "Bad Santa," "I Love You Phillip Morris," and "Jungle Cruise."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
person
ⓘ
person ⓘ tower ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| location | San Francisco ⓘ |
| name | Howard Coit ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Lillie Hitchcock Coit ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the husband of Lillie Hitchcock Coit ⓘ |
| occupation |
philanthropist
ⓘ
socialite ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | San Francisco ⓘ |
| spouse | Lillie Hitchcock Coit ⓘ |
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: Howard Coit Description of subject: Howard Coit was the husband of San Francisco socialite and philanthropist Lillie Hitchcock Coit, after whom Coit Tower is named.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.