Elizabeth Carter Coles
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Elizabeth Carter Coles was the first wife of American military leader and statesman George C. Marshall, whom she married in 1902 and remained with until her death in 1927.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Elizabeth Carter Coles canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T43703 — 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: Elizabeth Carter Coles Context triple: [George C. Marshall, spouse, Elizabeth Carter Coles]
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A.
Sarah Osborne
Sarah Osborne was one of the first women accused of witchcraft during the 1692 Salem witch trials in colonial Massachusetts.
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B.
Elizabeth Eldridge
Elizabeth Eldridge was the wife of Salem Village minister Samuel Parris, associated with the period of the Salem witch trials in late 17th-century Massachusetts.
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C.
Mary Easty
Mary Easty was a respected Salem, Massachusetts woman who was falsely accused of witchcraft and executed during the 1692 Salem witch trials, later remembered for her dignified plea for justice.
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D.
Elizabeth Erving
Elizabeth Erving was the wife of American statesman and Massachusetts governor James Bowdoin, connecting her to a prominent colonial New England political family.
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E.
Henry Middleton
Henry Middleton was an American planter and political leader from South Carolina who briefly served as a leading figure in the early stages of the American Revolution.
- 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: Elizabeth Carter Coles Target entity description: Elizabeth Carter Coles was the first wife of American military leader and statesman George C. Marshall, whom she married in 1902 and remained with until her death in 1927.
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A.
Sarah Osborne
Sarah Osborne was one of the first women accused of witchcraft during the 1692 Salem witch trials in colonial Massachusetts.
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B.
Elizabeth Eldridge
Elizabeth Eldridge was the wife of Salem Village minister Samuel Parris, associated with the period of the Salem witch trials in late 17th-century Massachusetts.
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C.
Mary Easty
Mary Easty was a respected Salem, Massachusetts woman who was falsely accused of witchcraft and executed during the 1692 Salem witch trials, later remembered for her dignified plea for justice.
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D.
Elizabeth Erving
Elizabeth Erving was the wife of American statesman and Massachusetts governor James Bowdoin, connecting her to a prominent colonial New England political family.
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E.
Henry Middleton
Henry Middleton was an American planter and political leader from South Carolina who briefly served as a leading figure in the early stages of the American Revolution.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| endCauseOfMarriageWith George C. Marshall | death of Elizabeth Carter Coles ⓘ |
| endTimeOfMarriageWith George C. Marshall | 1927 ⓘ |
| name | Elizabeth Carter Coles ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the first wife of George C. Marshall ⓘ |
| spouse | George C. Marshall ⓘ |
| spouseCountryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation |
military leader
ⓘ
statesman ⓘ |
| startTimeOfMarriageWith George C. Marshall | 1902 ⓘ |
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: Elizabeth Carter Coles Description of subject: Elizabeth Carter Coles was the first wife of American military leader and statesman George C. Marshall, whom she married in 1902 and remained with until her death in 1927.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.