Peggy Shippen
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Peggy Shippen was a Philadelphia socialite who became historically notorious as the Loyalist wife and co-conspirator of American Revolutionary War traitor Benedict Arnold.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Peggy Shippen canonical | 18 |
| Margaret Shippen | 3 |
| Margaret "Peggy" Shippen | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T439988 — 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: Peggy Shippen Context triple: [Benedict Arnold, spouse, Peggy Shippen]
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A.
Sarah Franklin Bache
Sarah Franklin Bache was an American patriot and philanthropist who organized relief efforts and supported the Revolutionary War cause, and was the daughter of Benjamin Franklin.
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B.
Henry Middleton
Henry Middleton was an American planter and political leader from South Carolina who briefly served as a leading figure in the early stages of the American Revolution.
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C.
Catherine Littlefield Greene
Catherine Littlefield Greene was an American Revolutionary-era figure and plantation manager best known as the wife and close confidante of General Nathanael Greene and for her later association with Eli Whitney and the development of the cotton gin.
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D.
Elizabeth Virginia Wallace
Elizabeth Virginia Wallace, better known as Bess Truman, was the First Lady of the United States from 1945 to 1953 as the wife of President Harry S. Truman.
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E.
Hannah Callowhill Penn
Hannah Callowhill Penn was the second wife of William Penn who effectively governed the Province of Pennsylvania in his stead, making her one of the earliest female political leaders in colonial America.
- 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: Peggy Shippen Target entity description: Peggy Shippen was a Philadelphia socialite who became historically notorious as the Loyalist wife and co-conspirator of American Revolutionary War traitor Benedict Arnold.
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A.
Sarah Franklin Bache
Sarah Franklin Bache was an American patriot and philanthropist who organized relief efforts and supported the Revolutionary War cause, and was the daughter of Benjamin Franklin.
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B.
Henry Middleton
Henry Middleton was an American planter and political leader from South Carolina who briefly served as a leading figure in the early stages of the American Revolution.
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C.
Catherine Littlefield Greene
Catherine Littlefield Greene was an American Revolutionary-era figure and plantation manager best known as the wife and close confidante of General Nathanael Greene and for her later association with Eli Whitney and the development of the cotton gin.
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D.
Elizabeth Virginia Wallace
Elizabeth Virginia Wallace, better known as Bess Truman, was the First Lady of the United States from 1945 to 1953 as the wife of President Harry S. Truman.
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E.
Hannah Callowhill Penn
Hannah Callowhill Penn was the second wife of William Penn who effectively governed the Province of Pennsylvania in his stead, making her one of the earliest female political leaders in colonial America.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
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: Peggy Shippen Description of subject: Peggy Shippen was a Philadelphia socialite who became historically notorious as the Loyalist wife and co-conspirator of American Revolutionary War traitor Benedict Arnold.
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Shippen
linked to: Peggy Shippen
subject linked to:
Shippen
linked to: Peggy Shippen
linked to: Peggy Shippen
linked to: Peggy Shippen
subject linked to:
William Fitch Arnold