Catherine Macomb
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Catherine Macomb was the wife of U.S. Army General Alexander Macomb, a prominent military figure in early 19th-century America.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Catherine Macomb canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10048437 — 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: Catherine Macomb Context triple: [Alexander Macomb, spouse, Catherine Macomb]
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A.
Mary Apthorp
Mary Apthorp was the wife of influential American theologian and Congregational minister Horace Bushnell in the 19th century.
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B.
Mary DeWitt
Mary DeWitt was the mother of prominent early 19th-century New York politician and governor DeWitt Clinton.
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C.
Lavinia Chamberlayne
Lavinia Chamberlayne is known as the wife of English writer and social observer Edward Chamberlayne.
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D.
Lavinia Chamberlayne
Lavinia Chamberlayne is a central figure in T. S. Eliot’s play "The Cocktail Party," whose troubled marriage and personal crisis drive much of the drama’s exploration of relationships and spiritual emptiness.
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E.
Wilhelmina Venable
Wilhelmina Venable is a strict, enigmatic leader of a post-apocalyptic outpost in the TV series "American Horror Story: Apocalypse," portrayed by Sarah Paulson.
- 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: Catherine Macomb Target entity description: Catherine Macomb was the wife of U.S. Army General Alexander Macomb, a prominent military figure in early 19th-century America.
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A.
Mary Apthorp
Mary Apthorp was the wife of influential American theologian and Congregational minister Horace Bushnell in the 19th century.
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B.
Mary DeWitt
Mary DeWitt was the mother of prominent early 19th-century New York politician and governor DeWitt Clinton.
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C.
Lavinia Chamberlayne
Lavinia Chamberlayne is known as the wife of English writer and social observer Edward Chamberlayne.
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D.
Lavinia Chamberlayne
Lavinia Chamberlayne is a central figure in T. S. Eliot’s play "The Cocktail Party," whose troubled marriage and personal crisis drive much of the drama’s exploration of relationships and spiritual emptiness.
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E.
Wilhelmina Venable
Wilhelmina Venable is a strict, enigmatic leader of a post-apocalyptic outpost in the TV series "American Horror Story: Apocalypse," portrayed by Sarah Paulson.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (6)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| countryOfService | United States of America ⓘ |
| notableFor | service as a prominent U.S. Army general in the early 19th century ⓘ |
| occupation | U.S. Army general ⓘ |
| spouse |
Alexander Macomb
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Catherine Macomb ⓘ |
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: Catherine Macomb Description of subject: Catherine Macomb was the wife of U.S. Army General Alexander Macomb, a prominent military figure in early 19th-century America.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Catherine Macomb