Mattea (historically attested wife)
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Mattea was the historically documented wife of the Italian explorer John Cabot, who led early voyages to North America under the English flag.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mattea (historically attested wife) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T518941 — 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: Mattea (historically attested wife) Context triple: [John Cabot, spouse, Mattea (historically attested wife)]
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A.
Margarete (second wife)
Margarete was the second wife of Thomas Cranmer, the first Protestant Archbishop of Canterbury and a leading figure of the English Reformation.
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B.
Joan (first wife)
Joan (first wife) was the first, little-documented wife of Thomas Cranmer, the 16th-century Archbishop of Canterbury and leading figure of the English Reformation.
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C.
Agatha, wife of Edward the Exile
Agatha, wife of Edward the Exile, was an 11th-century noblewoman of uncertain but likely Eastern European origin, best known as the mother of Saint Margaret of Scotland and a key ancestral figure in medieval English and Scottish royal lineages.
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D.
Martha Lyon
Martha Lyon is a landscape architect known for designing the Salem Witch Trials Memorial in Salem, Massachusetts.
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E.
Susanna
Susanna is a deuterocanonical addition to the Book of Daniel, telling the story of a virtuous woman falsely accused of adultery and vindicated by the prophet Daniel.
- 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: Mattea (historically attested wife) Target entity description: Mattea was the historically documented wife of the Italian explorer John Cabot, who led early voyages to North America under the English flag.
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A.
Margarete (second wife)
Margarete was the second wife of Thomas Cranmer, the first Protestant Archbishop of Canterbury and a leading figure of the English Reformation.
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B.
Joan (first wife)
Joan (first wife) was the first, little-documented wife of Thomas Cranmer, the 16th-century Archbishop of Canterbury and leading figure of the English Reformation.
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C.
Agatha, wife of Edward the Exile
Agatha, wife of Edward the Exile, was an 11th-century noblewoman of uncertain but likely Eastern European origin, best known as the mother of Saint Margaret of Scotland and a key ancestral figure in medieval English and Scottish royal lineages.
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D.
Martha Lyon
Martha Lyon is a landscape architect known for designing the Salem Witch Trials Memorial in Salem, Massachusetts.
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E.
Susanna
Susanna is a deuterocanonical addition to the Book of Daniel, telling the story of a virtuous woman falsely accused of adultery and vindicated by the prophet Daniel.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical figure
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human ⓘ |
| centuryOfLife |
15th century
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16th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Italy ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Italian ⓘ |
| familyName | unknown ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| historicalAttestation | documented as wife of John Cabot ⓘ |
| languageSpokenOrWritten | Italian ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| name | Mattea ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
England
ⓘ
Italy ⓘ |
| spouse |
John Cabot
ⓘ
linked to:
John Moors Cabot
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| spouseNameInEnglish | John Cabot ⓘ |
| spouseNameInItalian |
Giovanni Caboto
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linked to:
John Cabot
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| spouseNotableFor |
leading early voyages to North America
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sailing under the English flag ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation | explorer ⓘ |
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: Mattea (historically attested wife) Description of subject: Mattea was the historically documented wife of the Italian explorer John Cabot, who led early voyages to North America under the English flag.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.