Sally Cobb
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Sally Cobb was the wife of American Founding Father and Declaration of Independence signer Robert Treat Paine.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sally Cobb canonical | 3 |
| Sarah Cobb | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3181589 — 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: Sally Cobb Context triple: [Robert Treat Paine, spouse, Sally Cobb]
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A.
Sally Benson
Sally Benson was an American author and screenwriter best known for her semi-autobiographical stories that inspired the classic film "Meet Me in St. Louis."
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B.
Sally Smith
Sally Smith is the marital partner of Charles Adams, known primarily in relation to him.
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C.
Martha Shumway
Martha Shumway is a central character in the satirical 1970s television soap opera parody "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman," known as the title character’s anxious, emotionally fragile mother.
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D.
Margaret Barnhill
Margaret Barnhill was the wife of New York businessman Cornelius Van Schaack Roosevelt and the grandmother of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt.
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E.
Sonja Hogg
Sonja Hogg is an American women's basketball coach best known for helping build Baylor University's women's program into a national contender.
- 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: Sally Cobb Target entity description: Sally Cobb was the wife of American Founding Father and Declaration of Independence signer Robert Treat Paine.
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A.
Sally Benson
Sally Benson was an American author and screenwriter best known for her semi-autobiographical stories that inspired the classic film "Meet Me in St. Louis."
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B.
Sally Smith
Sally Smith is the marital partner of Charles Adams, known primarily in relation to him.
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C.
Martha Shumway
Martha Shumway is a central character in the satirical 1970s television soap opera parody "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman," known as the title character’s anxious, emotionally fragile mother.
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D.
Margaret Barnhill
Margaret Barnhill was the wife of New York businessman Cornelius Van Schaack Roosevelt and the grandmother of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt.
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E.
Sonja Hogg
Sonja Hogg is an American women's basketball coach best known for helping build Baylor University's women's program into a national contender.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American Founding Father
ⓘ
historical figure ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Cobb ⓘ |
| givenName | Sally ⓘ |
| name | Sally Cobb ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of Robert Treat Paine ⓘ |
| occupation |
lawyer
ⓘ
politician ⓘ |
| residence | Massachusetts ⓘ |
| signatoryOf |
United States Declaration of Independence
ⓘ
linked to:
American Declaration of Independence
|
| spouse |
Robert Treat Paine
ⓘ
Sally Cobb ⓘ |
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: Sally Cobb Description of subject: Sally Cobb was the wife of American Founding Father and Declaration of Independence signer Robert Treat Paine.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.