Cordelia Hamilton May
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Cordelia Hamilton May was an American philanthropist and art patron best known for establishing the American Folk Art Museum in New York City.
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| Cordelia Hamilton May canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T22138297 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cordelia Hamilton May Context triple: [American Folk Art Museum, founder, Cordelia Hamilton May]
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A.
Cordelia Scaife May
Cordelia Scaife May was an American heiress and philanthropist known for her substantial Mellon family inheritance and for funding influential anti-immigration and population control organizations.
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B.
Cordelia Waterman
Cordelia Waterman was a local woman after whom the community of Cordelia, California, was named, likely reflecting her or her family’s early significance in the area’s history.
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C.
Cordelia Naismith
Cordelia Naismith is the intelligent, principled starship captain and later political leader who serves as the central protagonist in Lois McMaster Bujold’s early Vorkosigan Saga novels.
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D.
Cordelia Cole Butler
Cordelia Cole Butler was the wife of American lawyer, abolitionist, and university founder Ovid Butler, and a member of the prominent Butler family of Indiana.
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E.
Catherine Elizabeth Hamilton
Catherine Elizabeth Hamilton was a 19th-century British aristocrat best known as the wife of George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, who later became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
- 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: Cordelia Hamilton May Target entity description: Cordelia Hamilton May was an American philanthropist and art patron best known for establishing the American Folk Art Museum in New York City.
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A.
Cordelia Scaife May
Cordelia Scaife May was an American heiress and philanthropist known for her substantial Mellon family inheritance and for funding influential anti-immigration and population control organizations.
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B.
Cordelia Waterman
Cordelia Waterman was a local woman after whom the community of Cordelia, California, was named, likely reflecting her or her family’s early significance in the area’s history.
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C.
Cordelia Naismith
Cordelia Naismith is the intelligent, principled starship captain and later political leader who serves as the central protagonist in Lois McMaster Bujold’s early Vorkosigan Saga novels.
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D.
Cordelia Cole Butler
Cordelia Cole Butler was the wife of American lawyer, abolitionist, and university founder Ovid Butler, and a member of the prominent Butler family of Indiana.
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E.
Catherine Elizabeth Hamilton
Catherine Elizabeth Hamilton was a 19th-century British aristocrat best known as the wife of George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, who later became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
American Folk Art Museum, New York