Frances Stapleton
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Frances Stapleton was an English gentlewoman best known as the mother of Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere, a prominent British Army officer of the Napoleonic era.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Frances Stapleton canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8131960 — 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: Frances Stapleton Context triple: [Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere, mother, Frances Stapleton]
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A.
Mary Stuart McHenry
Mary Stuart McHenry was the wife of American statesman and former U.S. Secretary of State James Baker.
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B.
Jane Bolling
Jane Bolling was a colonial Virginian woman of the prominent Bolling family, noted as an ancestor of several influential figures in early American history.
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C.
Mary Catlett
Mary Catlett was the wife of English Anglican clergyman and hymn writer John Newton, known for her supportive role in his life and ministry.
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D.
Elizabeth Griscom
Elizabeth Griscom, better known as Betsy Ross, was an American upholsterer and seamstress traditionally credited with sewing the first flag of the United States.
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E.
Elizabeth Porter
Elizabeth Porter was the wife of English writer Samuel Johnson, remembered as his older, widowed partner whose marriage to him significantly influenced his early life and 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: Frances Stapleton Target entity description: Frances Stapleton was an English gentlewoman best known as the mother of Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere, a prominent British Army officer of the Napoleonic era.
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A.
Mary Stuart McHenry
Mary Stuart McHenry was the wife of American statesman and former U.S. Secretary of State James Baker.
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B.
Jane Bolling
Jane Bolling was a colonial Virginian woman of the prominent Bolling family, noted as an ancestor of several influential figures in early American history.
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C.
Mary Catlett
Mary Catlett was the wife of English Anglican clergyman and hymn writer John Newton, known for her supportive role in his life and ministry.
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D.
Elizabeth Griscom
Elizabeth Griscom, better known as Betsy Ross, was an American upholsterer and seamstress traditionally credited with sewing the first flag of the United States.
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E.
Elizabeth Porter
Elizabeth Porter was the wife of English writer Samuel Johnson, remembered as his older, widowed partner whose marriage to him significantly influenced his early life and career.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English gentlewoman
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human ⓘ |
| child | Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English people ⓘ |
| familyName | Stapleton ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the mother of Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
18th century
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19th century ⓘ |
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: Frances Stapleton Description of subject: Frances Stapleton was an English gentlewoman best known as the mother of Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere, a prominent British Army officer of the Napoleonic era.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.