Cornelia Van Cortlandt
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Cornelia Van Cortlandt was a member of the prominent Van Cortlandt family of colonial New York and the wife of Johannes Schuyler, making her part of the influential Schuyler–Van Cortlandt lineage.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cornelia Van Cortlandt canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1835055 — 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: Cornelia Van Cortlandt Context triple: [Philip Schuyler, mother, Cornelia Van Cortlandt]
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A.
Catherine Van Rensselaer
Catherine Van Rensselaer was a member of New York’s powerful Van Rensselaer family and the wife of American Revolutionary War general and statesman Philip Schuyler.
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B.
Mary Van Cortlandt Jay
Mary Van Cortlandt Jay was a member of New York’s prominent Van Cortlandt family and the mother of John Jay, a Founding Father and the first Chief Justice of the United States.
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C.
Sarah Livingston Jay
Sarah Livingston Jay was an American socialite and political hostess from the influential Livingston family who played a key role in early U.S. diplomatic and political circles as the wife of statesman John Jay.
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D.
Susan Augusta DeLancey
Susan Augusta DeLancey was the wife of American novelist James Fenimore Cooper and a member of the prominent DeLancey family of New York.
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E.
Pierre Van Cortlandt
Pierre Van Cortlandt was an American patriot and politician who served as the first lieutenant governor of New York during and after the Revolutionary War.
- 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: Cornelia Van Cortlandt Target entity description: Cornelia Van Cortlandt was a member of the prominent Van Cortlandt family of colonial New York and the wife of Johannes Schuyler, making her part of the influential Schuyler–Van Cortlandt lineage.
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A.
Catherine Van Rensselaer
Catherine Van Rensselaer was a member of New York’s powerful Van Rensselaer family and the wife of American Revolutionary War general and statesman Philip Schuyler.
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B.
Mary Van Cortlandt Jay
Mary Van Cortlandt Jay was a member of New York’s prominent Van Cortlandt family and the mother of John Jay, a Founding Father and the first Chief Justice of the United States.
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C.
Sarah Livingston Jay
Sarah Livingston Jay was an American socialite and political hostess from the influential Livingston family who played a key role in early U.S. diplomatic and political circles as the wife of statesman John Jay.
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D.
Susan Augusta DeLancey
Susan Augusta DeLancey was the wife of American novelist James Fenimore Cooper and a member of the prominent DeLancey family of New York.
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E.
Pierre Van Cortlandt
Pierre Van Cortlandt was an American patriot and politician who served as the first lieutenant governor of New York during and after the Revolutionary War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
human
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member of Van Cortlandt family ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
New York Colony
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surface form:
Colonial New York
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| familyName | Van Cortlandt ⓘ |
| givenName | Cornelia ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Schuyler–Van Cortlandt lineage
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Van Cortlandt family ⓘ |
| notableFamily |
Schuyler family
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Van Cortlandt family ⓘ |
| residence | Province of New York ⓘ |
| spouse | Johannes Schuyler ⓘ |
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: Cornelia Van Cortlandt Description of subject: Cornelia Van Cortlandt was a member of the prominent Van Cortlandt family of colonial New York and the wife of Johannes Schuyler, making her part of the influential Schuyler–Van Cortlandt lineage.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.