Winslow
E246450
English-language surname
Mayflower passenger
colonial governor
family name
person
silversmith
surname
Winslow is an English-origin surname historically associated with early colonial families in New England.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Winslow canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2211310 — 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: Winslow Context triple: [Josiah Winslow, familyName, Winslow]
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A.
Winslow
Winslow is the main commercial and residential hub of Bainbridge Island, Washington, known for its downtown shops, restaurants, and ferry terminal connecting to Seattle.
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B.
Milford
Milford is a village in Surrey, England, situated near the town of Godalming.
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C.
Milford
Milford is a coastal city in southern Connecticut known for its beaches and harbors along Long Island Sound.
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D.
Wadsworth
Wadsworth is a small unincorporated community in Nevada known for its location along the Truckee River and its historical ties to the transcontinental railroad.
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E.
Gardiner
Gardiner is an English surname historically associated with Princess Muna al-Hussein, the British-born mother of King Abdullah II of Jordan.
- 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: Winslow Target entity description: Winslow is an English-origin surname historically associated with early colonial families in New England.
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A.
Winslow
Winslow is the main commercial and residential hub of Bainbridge Island, Washington, known for its downtown shops, restaurants, and ferry terminal connecting to Seattle.
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B.
Milford
Milford is a village in Surrey, England, situated near the town of Godalming.
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C.
Milford
Milford is a coastal city in southern Connecticut known for its beaches and harbors along Long Island Sound.
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D.
Wadsworth
Wadsworth is a small unincorporated community in Nevada known for its location along the Truckee River and its historical ties to the transcontinental railroad.
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E.
Gardiner
Gardiner is an English surname historically associated with Princess Muna al-Hussein, the British-born mother of King Abdullah II of Jordan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English-language surname
ⓘ
Mayflower passenger ⓘ colonial governor ⓘ family name ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ silversmith ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| associatedWithHistoricalPeriod | colonial America ⓘ |
| associatedWithMigration | English colonists to New England ⓘ |
| associatedWithRegion |
Boston, Massachusetts
ⓘ
surface form:
Boston
New England ⓘ New England ⓘ New England ⓘ New England ⓘ Plymouth Colony ⓘ Plymouth Colony ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | England ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | England ⓘ |
| derivedFromPlace | Winslow, Buckinghamshire ⓘ |
| familyName |
Winslow
self-linksurface differs
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Winslow self-linksurface differs ⓘ Winslow self-linksurface differs ⓘ Winslow self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| givenName | Edward ⓘ |
| hasCategory | English toponymic surnames ⓘ |
| hasEtymologyType | habitational surname ⓘ |
| hasGeographicOrigin | England ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalAssociation | early colonial families in New England ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Edward Winslow
ⓘ
Edward Winslow ⓘ
surface form:
Edward Winslow (silversmith)
John Winslow ⓘ Josiah Winslow ⓘ |
| hasVariantSpelling |
Winsloe
ⓘ
Winslowe ⓘ |
| heldPosition |
Governor of Plymouth Colony
ⓘ
Governor of Plymouth Colony ⓘ |
| notableFamilyBranch |
Winslow family
ⓘ
surface form:
Winslow family of Plymouth Colony
|
| notableFor |
participation in early relations with Wampanoag people
ⓘ
role in early governance of Plymouth Colony ⓘ |
| traveledOn | Mayflower ⓘ |
| usedInCountry |
Canada
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| wasLeaderOf | Plymouth Colony ⓘ |
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: Winslow Description of subject: Winslow is an English-origin surname historically associated with early colonial families in New England.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Arthur Winslow
subject surface form:
Edward Winslow
subject surface form:
Josiah Winslow
subject surface form:
John Winslow
subject surface form:
Edward Winslow (silversmith)