Jabez Howland
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Jabez Howland was a colonial New England settler and son of Mayflower passenger John Howland, known for owning one of the oldest surviving houses in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jabez Howland canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1068645 — 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: Jabez Howland Context triple: [John Howland, child, Jabez Howland]
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A.
Benjamin Winthrop
Benjamin Winthrop was an early American financier known for being among the original New York brokers who helped lay the foundations of what became the New York Stock Exchange.
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B.
John Leverett
John Leverett was a 17th-century colonial governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony who played a key leadership role during King Philip's War.
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C.
Josiah Quincy Jr.
Josiah Quincy Jr. was a prominent colonial American lawyer and patriot leader who, despite his opposition to British policies, helped defend the British soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre.
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D.
FitzWilliam Sargent
FitzWilliam Sargent was the father of renowned American expatriate portrait painter John Singer Sargent.
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E.
Selden Chapin
Selden Chapin was an American diplomat and career Foreign Service officer who served in several key ambassadorial posts for the United States during the mid-20th century.
- 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: Jabez Howland Target entity description: Jabez Howland was a colonial New England settler and son of Mayflower passenger John Howland, known for owning one of the oldest surviving houses in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
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A.
Benjamin Winthrop
Benjamin Winthrop was an early American financier known for being among the original New York brokers who helped lay the foundations of what became the New York Stock Exchange.
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B.
John Leverett
John Leverett was a 17th-century colonial governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony who played a key leadership role during King Philip's War.
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C.
Josiah Quincy Jr.
Josiah Quincy Jr. was a prominent colonial American lawyer and patriot leader who, despite his opposition to British policies, helped defend the British soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre.
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D.
FitzWilliam Sargent
FitzWilliam Sargent was the father of renowned American expatriate portrait painter John Singer Sargent.
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E.
Selden Chapin
Selden Chapin was an American diplomat and career Foreign Service officer who served in several key ambassadorial posts for the United States during the mid-20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
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: Jabez Howland Description of subject: Jabez Howland was a colonial New England settler and son of Mayflower passenger John Howland, known for owning one of the oldest surviving houses in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Jabez Howland
subject linked to:
Mayflower passenger John Howland
subject linked to:
Mayflower passenger Elizabeth Tilley