Sarah Winston Syme Henry
E189934
Sarah Winston Syme Henry was an 18th-century Virginia gentlewoman best known as the mother of American Revolutionary orator and statesman Patrick Henry.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sarah Winston Syme | 1 |
| Sarah Winston Syme Henry canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1090778 — 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: Sarah Winston Syme Henry Context triple: [Patrick Henry, mother, Sarah Winston Syme Henry]
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A.
Mary Spencer Hull
Mary Spencer Hull was the wife of Sir William Phips, the first royal governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay during the late 17th century.
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B.
Amabel James
Amabel James is known as the spouse of British businessman and hedge fund manager Tony James.
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C.
Virginia Katherine McMath
Virginia Katherine McMath, better known as Ginger Rogers, was an American actress, singer, and dancer famed for her iconic film musicals with Fred Astaire during Hollywood’s Golden Age.
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D.
Winifred Reed Landis
Winifred Reed Landis was the wife of longtime Major League Baseball commissioner and federal judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis.
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E.
Edith Scott Bagley
Edith Scott Bagley was an American educator and the younger sister of civil rights leader Coretta Scott King, known for her work in education and support of the civil rights movement.
- 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: Sarah Winston Syme Henry Target entity description: Sarah Winston Syme Henry was an 18th-century Virginia gentlewoman best known as the mother of American Revolutionary orator and statesman Patrick Henry.
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A.
Mary Spencer Hull
Mary Spencer Hull was the wife of Sir William Phips, the first royal governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay during the late 17th century.
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B.
Amabel James
Amabel James is known as the spouse of British businessman and hedge fund manager Tony James.
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C.
Virginia Katherine McMath
Virginia Katherine McMath, better known as Ginger Rogers, was an American actress, singer, and dancer famed for her iconic film musicals with Fred Astaire during Hollywood’s Golden Age.
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D.
Winifred Reed Landis
Winifred Reed Landis was the wife of longtime Major League Baseball commissioner and federal judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis.
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E.
Edith Scott Bagley
Edith Scott Bagley was an American educator and the younger sister of civil rights leader Coretta Scott King, known for her work in education and support of the civil rights movement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
18th-century Virginia gentlewoman
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| birthName | Sarah Winston ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 18th century ⓘ |
| child | Patrick Henry ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Colony and Dominion of Virginia
ⓘ
surface form:
Colony of Virginia
|
| ethnicGroup | English American ⓘ |
| familyName | Henry ⓘ |
| givenName | Sarah ⓘ |
| hasRole | mother of statesman ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| motherOf |
Patrick Henry
ⓘ
surface form:
American Revolutionary orator Patrick Henry
|
| notableFor | being the mother of Patrick Henry ⓘ |
| notableRelative |
John Henry
ⓘ
John Syme ⓘ Patrick Henry ⓘ |
| occupation | planter’s wife ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | colonial Virginia ⓘ |
| placeOfResidence | Scotchtown plantation ⓘ |
| religion | Anglicanism ⓘ |
| residence | Hanover County, Virginia ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| socialClass | Virginia gentry ⓘ |
| spouse |
John Henry
ⓘ
John Syme ⓘ |
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: Sarah Winston Syme Henry Description of subject: Sarah Winston Syme Henry was an 18th-century Virginia gentlewoman best known as the mother of American Revolutionary orator and statesman Patrick Henry.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Sarah Winston Syme