Ellen Derby Peabody
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Ellen Derby Peabody was the wife of longtime Harvard University president Charles W. Eliot and a member of the prominent New England Peabody family.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ellen Derby Peabody canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4136080 — 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: Ellen Derby Peabody Context triple: [Charles W. Eliot, spouse, Ellen Derby Peabody]
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A.
Lydia King Phelps Stokes
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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B.
Helen Dinsmore Huntington
Helen Dinsmore Huntington was an American socialite and arts patron from a prominent New York family, best known for her influential role in early 20th-century high society and cultural philanthropy.
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C.
Louise Arner Boyd
Louise Arner Boyd was an American explorer and photographer renowned for her pioneering Arctic expeditions in the early 20th century.
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D.
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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E.
Olive Freeman Palmer
Olive Freeman Palmer was the first wife of Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, known primarily for her role as his partner during his early legal and political career.
- 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: Ellen Derby Peabody Target entity description: Ellen Derby Peabody was the wife of longtime Harvard University president Charles W. Eliot and a member of the prominent New England Peabody family.
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A.
Lydia King Phelps Stokes
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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B.
Helen Dinsmore Huntington
Helen Dinsmore Huntington was an American socialite and arts patron from a prominent New York family, best known for her influential role in early 20th-century high society and cultural philanthropy.
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C.
Louise Arner Boyd
Louise Arner Boyd was an American explorer and photographer renowned for her pioneering Arctic expeditions in the early 20th century.
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D.
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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E.
Olive Freeman Palmer
Olive Freeman Palmer was the first wife of Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, known primarily for her role as his partner during his early legal and political career.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
member of the Peabody family ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Boston, Massachusetts
ⓘ
Cambridge, Massachusetts ⓘ Harvard University ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| culture | Yankee elite ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | New Englander ⓘ |
| familyName | Peabody ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Ellen ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| marriedInto | Eliot family ⓘ |
| memberOf | Peabody family ⓘ |
| notableFamily | Peabody family ⓘ |
| notableRelativeByMarriage |
Charles William Eliot
ⓘ
linked to:
Charles W. Eliot
|
| regionOfActivity | New England ⓘ |
| residence |
Cambridge, Massachusetts
ⓘ
Massachusetts ⓘ |
| socialStatus | member of prominent New England family ⓘ |
| spouse |
Charles William Eliot
ⓘ
linked to:
Charles W. Eliot
Ellen Derby Peabody ⓘ |
| spouseEmployer | Harvard University ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation | university president ⓘ |
| spousePosition | President of Harvard University ⓘ |
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: Ellen Derby Peabody Description of subject: Ellen Derby Peabody was the wife of longtime Harvard University president Charles W. Eliot and a member of the prominent New England Peabody family.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Ellen Derby Peabody