Mehitabel Webb
E252391
Mehitabel Webb was the wife of American merchant and diplomat Silas Deane, a prominent figure in the early stages of the American Revolution.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mehitabel Webb canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1475776 — 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: Mehitabel Webb Context triple: [Silas Deane, spouse, Mehitabel Webb]
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A.
Estelle Winwood
Estelle Winwood was a British-born stage and film actress known for her long career in theater and character roles in Hollywood, often playing eccentric or aristocratic older women.
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B.
Julia Biggs
Julia Biggs is the warm, devoted church wife and mother at the heart of the film "The Preacher's Wife," portrayed by Whitney Houston.
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C.
Eve Halliday
Eve Halliday is a central, quick-witted and independent female character in P. G. Wodehouse’s Psmith series, notably appearing as a love interest and foil to Psmith in "Leave it to Psmith."
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D.
Muriel Whiting
Muriel Whiting was the wife of British Royal Air Force commander Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, noted for his leadership during the Battle of Britain.
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E.
Flora Hewlett
Flora Hewlett was a philanthropist whose legacy is honored through the naming of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, a major charitable organization.
- 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: Mehitabel Webb Target entity description: Mehitabel Webb was the wife of American merchant and diplomat Silas Deane, a prominent figure in the early stages of the American Revolution.
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A.
Estelle Winwood
Estelle Winwood was a British-born stage and film actress known for her long career in theater and character roles in Hollywood, often playing eccentric or aristocratic older women.
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B.
Julia Biggs
Julia Biggs is the warm, devoted church wife and mother at the heart of the film "The Preacher's Wife," portrayed by Whitney Houston.
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C.
Eve Halliday
Eve Halliday is a central, quick-witted and independent female character in P. G. Wodehouse’s Psmith series, notably appearing as a love interest and foil to Psmith in "Leave it to Psmith."
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D.
Muriel Whiting
Muriel Whiting was the wife of British Royal Air Force commander Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, noted for his leadership during the Battle of Britain.
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E.
Flora Hewlett
Flora Hewlett was a philanthropist whose legacy is honored through the naming of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, a major charitable organization.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (9)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical figure
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human ⓘ human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the wife of American merchant and diplomat Silas Deane
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role in the early stages of the American Revolution ⓘ |
| occupation |
diplomat
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merchant ⓘ |
| spouse | Silas Deane ⓘ |
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: Mehitabel Webb Description of subject: Mehitabel Webb was the wife of American merchant and diplomat Silas Deane, a prominent figure in the early stages of the American Revolution.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.