Julia Ward Howe
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Julia Ward Howe was an American poet, author, and social reformer best known for writing the lyrics to "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" and for her leadership in the abolitionist and women's suffrage movements.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Julia Ward Howe canonical | 24 |
| Julia Ward Howe, 1819–1910 | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T24793 — 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: Julia Ward Howe Context triple: [Mount Auburn Cemetery, burialPlaceOf, Julia Ward Howe]
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Francis Scott Key
Francis Scott Key was an American lawyer and amateur poet best known for writing the lyrics that became the United States national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner."
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B.
John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier was a prominent 19th-century American Quaker poet and abolitionist best known for his anti-slavery writings and New England regional verse.
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C.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Beecher Stowe was a 19th-century American author and abolitionist best known for her influential anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
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D.
James Russell Lowell
James Russell Lowell was a 19th-century American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat associated with the Fireside Poets and influential in shaping U.S. literary culture.
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E.
Elizabeth Howe
Elizabeth Howe was a Massachusetts woman executed for alleged witchcraft during the 1692 Salem witch trials, later recognized as one of its wrongfully accused victims.
- 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: Julia Ward Howe Target entity description: Julia Ward Howe was an American poet, author, and social reformer best known for writing the lyrics to "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" and for her leadership in the abolitionist and women's suffrage movements.
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A.
Francis Scott Key
Francis Scott Key was an American lawyer and amateur poet best known for writing the lyrics that became the United States national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner."
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B.
John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier was a prominent 19th-century American Quaker poet and abolitionist best known for his anti-slavery writings and New England regional verse.
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C.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Beecher Stowe was a 19th-century American author and abolitionist best known for her influential anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
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D.
James Russell Lowell
James Russell Lowell was a 19th-century American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat associated with the Fireside Poets and influential in shaping U.S. literary culture.
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E.
Elizabeth Howe
Elizabeth Howe was a Massachusetts woman executed for alleged witchcraft during the 1692 Salem witch trials, later recognized as one of its wrongfully accused victims.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
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: Julia Ward Howe Description of subject: Julia Ward Howe was an American poet, author, and social reformer best known for writing the lyrics to "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" and for her leadership in the abolitionist and women's suffrage movements.
Referenced by (27)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Julia Ward Howe, 1819–1910
this entity surface form:
Julia Ward Howe, 1819–1910
this entity surface form:
Julia Ward Howe, 1819–1910