Molly McCauley
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Molly McCauley, better known as Molly Pitcher, is a legendary figure of the American Revolutionary War celebrated for taking her husband's place at a cannon during the Battle of Monmouth.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Molly McCauley canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3814986 — 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: Molly McCauley Context triple: [Molly Pitcher, alsoKnownAs, Molly McCauley]
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A.
Molly Downtain
Molly Downtain is a soccer executive who serves as the general manager of the National Women's Soccer League club San Diego Wave FC.
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B.
Molly Punderson
Molly Punderson was the wife of American illustrator Norman Rockwell and a figure in his early personal life and career.
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C.
Molly Greene
Molly Greene is a relatively obscure individual whose specific public notability is not clearly established from the given information.
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D.
Mia Dolan
Mia Dolan is an aspiring actress in Los Angeles and one of the two central protagonists of the musical film "La La Land."
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E.
Molly Farren
Molly Farren is a tragic minor character in George Eliot’s novel "Silas Marner," known as the opium-addicted first wife of Godfrey Cass and the biological mother of Eppie.
- 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: Molly McCauley Target entity description: Molly McCauley, better known as Molly Pitcher, is a legendary figure of the American Revolutionary War celebrated for taking her husband's place at a cannon during the Battle of Monmouth.
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A.
Molly Downtain
Molly Downtain is a soccer executive who serves as the general manager of the National Women's Soccer League club San Diego Wave FC.
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B.
Molly Punderson
Molly Punderson was the wife of American illustrator Norman Rockwell and a figure in his early personal life and career.
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C.
Molly Greene
Molly Greene is a relatively obscure individual whose specific public notability is not clearly established from the given information.
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D.
Mia Dolan
Mia Dolan is an aspiring actress in Los Angeles and one of the two central protagonists of the musical film "La La Land."
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E.
Molly Farren
Molly Farren is a tragic minor character in George Eliot’s novel "Silas Marner," known as the opium-addicted first wife of Godfrey Cass and the biological mother of Eppie.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American Revolutionary War figure
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American Revolutionary War figure ⓘ folk hero ⓘ folk hero ⓘ legendary figure ⓘ legendary figure ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Continental Army ⓘ |
| commemoratedAs | American patriotic heroine ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| culturalSignificance | symbol of women’s contributions to the American Revolution ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasAlias | Molly Pitcher ⓘ |
| historicity | legendary and possibly composite figure ⓘ |
| notedFor |
actions at the Battle of Monmouth
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taking her husband’s place at a cannon ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
American Revolutionary War
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Battle of Monmouth ⓘ |
| roleAtBattleOfMonmouth |
assisted artillery crew
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operated cannon after husband was incapacitated ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation | artilleryman ⓘ |
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: Molly McCauley Description of subject: Molly McCauley, better known as Molly Pitcher, is a legendary figure of the American Revolutionary War celebrated for taking her husband's place at a cannon during the Battle of Monmouth.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
“Molly Pitcher” (Mary Ludwig Hays, traditional attribution)