Anne Yale
E626590
Anne Yale was the wife of colonial leader and merchant Theophilus Eaton, associated with early New England settlement.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Anne Yale canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6904015 — 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: Anne Yale Context triple: [Theophilus Eaton, spouse, Anne Yale]
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A.
Anne Yale
Anne Yale was a daughter of Elihu Yale, the wealthy British-American merchant and philanthropist after whom Yale University is named.
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B.
Elizabeth Browne
Elizabeth Browne was the wife of the pioneering English physician William Harvey, known for his discovery of the circulation of blood.
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C.
Elizabeth Browne
Elizabeth Browne was the wife of Robert Rogers, the famed 18th-century American frontiersman and leader of Rogers' Rangers.
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D.
Margaret Best Royall
Margaret Best Royall was the wife of Kenneth C. Royall, a prominent American lawyer, U.S. Secretary of War, and the last U.S. Secretary of the Army.
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E.
Elizabeth Cabot
Elizabeth Cabot is the namesake of the Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Directorship at the Harvard Art Museums, reflecting her significant association with and support for the institution.
- 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: Anne Yale Target entity description: Anne Yale was the wife of colonial leader and merchant Theophilus Eaton, associated with early New England settlement.
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A.
Anne Yale
Anne Yale was a daughter of Elihu Yale, the wealthy British-American merchant and philanthropist after whom Yale University is named.
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B.
Elizabeth Browne
Elizabeth Browne was the wife of the pioneering English physician William Harvey, known for his discovery of the circulation of blood.
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C.
Elizabeth Browne
Elizabeth Browne was the wife of Robert Rogers, the famed 18th-century American frontiersman and leader of Rogers' Rangers.
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D.
Margaret Best Royall
Margaret Best Royall was the wife of Kenneth C. Royall, a prominent American lawyer, U.S. Secretary of War, and the last U.S. Secretary of the Army.
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E.
Elizabeth Cabot
Elizabeth Cabot is the namesake of the Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Directorship at the Harvard Art Museums, reflecting her significant association with and support for the institution.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical figure
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person ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
New England
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Theophilus Eaton ⓘ early New England settlement ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English ⓘ |
| familyName | Yale ⓘ |
| givenName | Anne ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the wife of colonial leader Theophilus Eaton
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connection to early New England colonization ⓘ |
| occupation | colonial settler ⓘ |
| residence |
English colonies in North America
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New England ⓘ |
| spouse | Theophilus Eaton ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation |
colonial leader
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merchant ⓘ |
| timePeriod | colonial era ⓘ |
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: Anne Yale Description of subject: Anne Yale was the wife of colonial leader and merchant Theophilus Eaton, associated with early New England settlement.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.