Nathaniel Peabody
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Nathaniel Peabody was a 19th-century American dentist and the patriarch of the Peabody family, known as the father of artist and writer Sophia Peabody Hawthorne.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Nathaniel Peabody canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2021771 — 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: Nathaniel Peabody Context triple: [Sophia Peabody, father, Nathaniel Peabody]
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A.
Ludovico Cabot
Ludovico Cabot was a son of the Italian explorer John Cabot, likely part of the Cabot family involved in early transatlantic exploration and related ventures.
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B.
Frank Sanborn
Frank Sanborn was a 19th-century American abolitionist, journalist, and reformer closely associated with the Transcendentalist movement and figures such as John Brown and Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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C.
Jabez Howland
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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D.
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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E.
Nathaniel Crosby
Nathaniel Crosby is an American former amateur golfer and golf industry professional, best known as the son of legendary singer and actor Bing Crosby.
- 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: Nathaniel Peabody Target entity description: Nathaniel Peabody was a 19th-century American dentist and the patriarch of the Peabody family, known as the father of artist and writer Sophia Peabody Hawthorne.
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A.
Ludovico Cabot
Ludovico Cabot was a son of the Italian explorer John Cabot, likely part of the Cabot family involved in early transatlantic exploration and related ventures.
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B.
Frank Sanborn
Frank Sanborn was a 19th-century American abolitionist, journalist, and reformer closely associated with the Transcendentalist movement and figures such as John Brown and Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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C.
Jabez Howland
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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D.
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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E.
Nathaniel Crosby
Nathaniel Crosby is an American former amateur golfer and golf industry professional, best known as the son of legendary singer and actor Bing Crosby.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
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dentist ⓘ person ⓘ |
| child |
Sophia Peabody
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Sophia Hawthorne ⓘ
surface form:
Sophia Peabody Hawthorne
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Peabody ⓘ |
| memberOf | Peabody family ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a 19th-century American dentist
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being the father of Sophia Peabody Hawthorne ⓘ being the patriarch of the Peabody family ⓘ |
| occupation | dentist ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | United States of America ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Nathaniel Peabody Description of subject: Nathaniel Peabody was a 19th-century American dentist and the patriarch of the Peabody family, known as the father of artist and writer Sophia Peabody Hawthorne.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.