Lydia King Phelps Stokes
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Lydia King Phelps Stokes was an American philanthropist and civic leader from a prominent New York family, known for her social activism and support of educational and cultural institutions.
All labels observed (1)
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| Lydia King Phelps Stokes canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3509140 — 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: Lydia King Phelps Stokes Context triple: [Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, spouse, Lydia King Phelps Stokes]
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A.
Almira Russell Hancock
Almira Russell Hancock was the wife of Union General Winfield Scott Hancock and an American author known for her memoirs about her husband's military career and their life together.
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B.
Lydia Dodge Cabot Parker
Lydia Dodge Cabot Parker was the wife and close intellectual partner of prominent American transcendentalist minister and reformer Theodore Parker, active in Boston’s 19th-century Unitarian and social reform circles.
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C.
Esther Stoddard Edwards
Esther Stoddard Edwards was the daughter of prominent American theologian Jonathan Edwards and a member of the influential Edwards-Stoddard New England clerical family.
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D.
Maria Bissell Hotchkiss
Maria Bissell Hotchkiss was an American philanthropist best known for endowing and establishing the prestigious Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut.
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E.
Anna Rice Cooke
Anna Rice Cooke was an American art collector and philanthropist from Hawaii who played a key role in developing Honolulu’s cultural and artistic institutions.
- 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: Lydia King Phelps Stokes Target entity description: Lydia King Phelps Stokes was an American philanthropist and civic leader from a prominent New York family, known for her social activism and support of educational and cultural institutions.
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A.
Almira Russell Hancock
Almira Russell Hancock was the wife of Union General Winfield Scott Hancock and an American author known for her memoirs about her husband's military career and their life together.
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B.
Lydia Dodge Cabot Parker
Lydia Dodge Cabot Parker was the wife and close intellectual partner of prominent American transcendentalist minister and reformer Theodore Parker, active in Boston’s 19th-century Unitarian and social reform circles.
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C.
Esther Stoddard Edwards
Esther Stoddard Edwards was the daughter of prominent American theologian Jonathan Edwards and a member of the influential Edwards-Stoddard New England clerical family.
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D.
Maria Bissell Hotchkiss
Maria Bissell Hotchkiss was an American philanthropist best known for endowing and establishing the prestigious Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut.
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E.
Anna Rice Cooke
Anna Rice Cooke was an American art collector and philanthropist from Hawaii who played a key role in developing Honolulu’s cultural and artistic institutions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
civic leader
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human ⓘ philanthropist ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White American ⓘ |
| familyName | Stokes ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
civic leadership
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philanthropy ⓘ social activism ⓘ |
| genreOfActivism |
civic reform
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culture ⓘ education ⓘ |
| givenName | Lydia ⓘ |
| hasGender | female ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Phelps Stokes family ⓘ |
| notableFor |
civic engagement in New York
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philanthropic donations ⓘ social activism ⓘ support of cultural institutions ⓘ support of educational institutions ⓘ |
| occupation |
civic leader
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philanthropist ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | New York ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| socialClass | upper class ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Lydia King Phelps Stokes Description of subject: Lydia King Phelps Stokes was an American philanthropist and civic leader from a prominent New York family, known for her social activism and support of educational and cultural institutions.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.