Joan Hurst
E745036
Joan Hurst was an Englishwoman of the early 17th century best known as the mother of Mayflower passenger Elizabeth Tilley.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Joan Hurst canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8572051 — 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: Joan Hurst Context triple: [Elizabeth Tilley, mother, Joan Hurst]
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A.
Joan Winfield
Joan Winfield is a fictional heiress character in the 1941 romantic comedy film "The Bride Came C.O.D.," portrayed by actress Bette Davis.
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B.
Dorothy Crofts
Dorothy Crofts was an English gentlewoman of the early 17th century best known as the mother of Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington, a prominent statesman under King Charles II.
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C.
June Rowlands
June Rowlands was a Canadian politician who became the first woman to serve as mayor of Toronto, leading the city in the early 1990s.
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D.
Barbara Weston
Barbara Weston is the central character of the American sitcom "Empty Nest," portrayed as a quirky and often scatterbrained adult daughter living with her widowed father.
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E.
Margaret Sayers Peden
Margaret Sayers Peden was a prominent American translator renowned for bringing major works of Latin American literature, including those of Isabel Allende, into English.
- 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: Joan Hurst Target entity description: Joan Hurst was an Englishwoman of the early 17th century best known as the mother of Mayflower passenger Elizabeth Tilley.
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A.
Joan Winfield
Joan Winfield is a fictional heiress character in the 1941 romantic comedy film "The Bride Came C.O.D.," portrayed by actress Bette Davis.
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B.
Dorothy Crofts
Dorothy Crofts was an English gentlewoman of the early 17th century best known as the mother of Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington, a prominent statesman under King Charles II.
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C.
June Rowlands
June Rowlands was a Canadian politician who became the first woman to serve as mayor of Toronto, leading the city in the early 1990s.
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D.
Barbara Weston
Barbara Weston is the central character of the American sitcom "Empty Nest," portrayed as a quirky and often scatterbrained adult daughter living with her widowed father.
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E.
Margaret Sayers Peden
Margaret Sayers Peden was a prominent American translator renowned for bringing major works of Latin American literature, including those of Isabel Allende, into English.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English person
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human ⓘ |
| child | Elizabeth Tilley ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English people ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mother | Joan Hurst ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the mother of Mayflower passenger Elizabeth Tilley ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| timePeriod | early 17th 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: Joan Hurst Description of subject: Joan Hurst was an Englishwoman of the early 17th century best known as the mother of Mayflower passenger Elizabeth Tilley.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Joan Hurst
subject linked to:
Mayflower passenger Elizabeth Tilley
subject linked to:
Mayflower passenger John Tilley
subject linked to:
Mayflower passenger John Tilley