Crowfoot
E72411
Crowfoot is the maiden surname of Nobel Prize–winning chemist Dorothy Hodgkin, reflecting her family lineage.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Crowfoot canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T560987 — 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: Crowfoot Context triple: [Dorothy Hodgkin, familyName, Crowfoot]
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A.
Chevak
Chevak is a distinct dialect of the Central Alaskan Yup’ik language spoken primarily in the village of Chevak in western Alaska.
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B.
Buckongahelas
Buckongahelas was a prominent Lenape (Delaware) war leader in the late 18th century who led Native American resistance against United States expansion in the Ohio Country.
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C.
Southesk
Southesk is the traditional war cry associated with Clan Carnegie, a Scottish noble family from Angus.
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D.
Tahlequah
Tahlequah is a city in eastern Oklahoma that serves as the capital of the Cherokee Nation and is known for its rich Native American history and culture.
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E.
The Glen
The Glen is a historic public park in Dunfermline, Scotland, known for its landscaped grounds, woodland walks, and cultural significance as part of Pittencrieff Park.
- 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: Crowfoot Target entity description: Crowfoot is the maiden surname of Nobel Prize–winning chemist Dorothy Hodgkin, reflecting her family lineage.
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A.
Chevak
Chevak is a distinct dialect of the Central Alaskan Yup’ik language spoken primarily in the village of Chevak in western Alaska.
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B.
Buckongahelas
Buckongahelas was a prominent Lenape (Delaware) war leader in the late 18th century who led Native American resistance against United States expansion in the Ohio Country.
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C.
Southesk
Southesk is the traditional war cry associated with Clan Carnegie, a Scottish noble family from Angus.
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D.
Tahlequah
Tahlequah is a city in eastern Oklahoma that serves as the capital of the Cherokee Nation and is known for its rich Native American history and culture.
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E.
The Glen
The Glen is a historic public park in Dunfermline, Scotland, known for its landscaped grounds, woodland walks, and cultural significance as part of Pittencrieff Park.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (8)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
familyName
ⓘ
surname ⓘ |
| birthName | Dorothy Mary Crowfoot ⓘ |
| familyNameAtBirth | Crowfoot ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| maidenName | Crowfoot ⓘ |
| nameCategory | English-language surname ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
ⓘ
linked to:
Dorothy Hodgkin
|
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: Crowfoot Description of subject: Crowfoot is the maiden surname of Nobel Prize–winning chemist Dorothy Hodgkin, reflecting her family lineage.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.