Elizabeth Ann Goodwin
E38481
Elizabeth Ann Goodwin was the mother of Canadian physician and humanitarian Norman Bethune.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Elizabeth Ann Goodwin canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T246740 — 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 Ann Goodwin Context triple: [Norman Bethune, mother, Elizabeth Ann Goodwin]
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A.
Isabel Mary Wells
Isabel Mary Wells was the first wife of English writer H. G. Wells, whom he married in 1891 before their eventual separation.
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B.
Louisa Matilda Jacobs
Louisa Matilda Jacobs was the daughter of formerly enslaved author and abolitionist Harriet Jacobs, known for assisting her mother’s activism and later working as a teacher and writer.
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C.
Harriet Burrow
Harriet Burrow was the mother of the influential British philosopher and political economist John Stuart Mill.
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D.
Katherine Tupper Brown
Katherine Tupper Brown was an American woman best known as the wife of U.S. Army General and statesman George C. Marshall, supporting his military and diplomatic career during and after World War II.
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E.
Harriet Pitt
Harriet Pitt was an 18th-century British actress and the daughter of statesman William Pitt the Elder.
- 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 Ann Goodwin Target entity description: Elizabeth Ann Goodwin was the mother of Canadian physician and humanitarian Norman Bethune.
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A.
Isabel Mary Wells
Isabel Mary Wells was the first wife of English writer H. G. Wells, whom he married in 1891 before their eventual separation.
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B.
Louisa Matilda Jacobs
Louisa Matilda Jacobs was the daughter of formerly enslaved author and abolitionist Harriet Jacobs, known for assisting her mother’s activism and later working as a teacher and writer.
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C.
Harriet Burrow
Harriet Burrow was the mother of the influential British philosopher and political economist John Stuart Mill.
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D.
Katherine Tupper Brown
Katherine Tupper Brown was an American woman best known as the wife of U.S. Army General and statesman George C. Marshall, supporting his military and diplomatic career during and after World War II.
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E.
Harriet Pitt
Harriet Pitt was an 18th-century British actress and the daughter of statesman William Pitt the Elder.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
human ⓘ mother ⓘ |
| child | Norman Bethune ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Canada
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Canada ⓘ |
| mother | Elizabeth Ann Goodwin self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| notableRelative | Norman Bethune ⓘ |
| occupation |
homemaker
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humanitarian ⓘ physician ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
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 Ann Goodwin Description of subject: Elizabeth Ann Goodwin was the mother of Canadian physician and humanitarian Norman Bethune.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Norman Bethune