Cornelia Paterson
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Cornelia Paterson was a member of a prominent early American political family who became the wife of New York landowner and politician Stephen Van Rensselaer.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cornelia Paterson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4174608 — 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: Cornelia Paterson Context triple: [Stephen Van Rensselaer, spouse, Cornelia Paterson]
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A.
Doris Warner
Doris Warner was the wife of prominent Hollywood director and producer Mervyn LeRoy and a member of the influential Warner family behind Warner Bros.
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B.
Enid A. Haupt
Enid A. Haupt was an American publisher and philanthropist renowned for her generous support of horticulture and the arts, particularly through major gifts to public gardens and cultural institutions.
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C.
Ellen Bowen
Ellen Bowen is a fictional character from the 1951 MGM musical film "Royal Wedding," which starred Fred Astaire.
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D.
Joan Wilder
Joan Wilder is a shy, romantic adventure novelist who is thrust into a real-life treasure hunt in the film "Romancing the Stone."
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E.
Mary Louise Smith
Mary Louise Smith was a young African American civil rights activist whose refusal to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama, helped lead to the landmark desegregation case Browder v. Gayle.
- 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: Cornelia Paterson Target entity description: Cornelia Paterson was a member of a prominent early American political family who became the wife of New York landowner and politician Stephen Van Rensselaer.
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A.
Doris Warner
Doris Warner was the wife of prominent Hollywood director and producer Mervyn LeRoy and a member of the influential Warner family behind Warner Bros.
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B.
Enid A. Haupt
Enid A. Haupt was an American publisher and philanthropist renowned for her generous support of horticulture and the arts, particularly through major gifts to public gardens and cultural institutions.
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C.
Ellen Bowen
Ellen Bowen is a fictional character from the 1951 MGM musical film "Royal Wedding," which starred Fred Astaire.
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D.
Joan Wilder
Joan Wilder is a shy, romantic adventure novelist who is thrust into a real-life treasure hunt in the film "Romancing the Stone."
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E.
Mary Louise Smith
Mary Louise Smith was a young African American civil rights activist whose refusal to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama, helped lead to the landmark desegregation case Browder v. Gayle.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
member of political family ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Paterson ⓘ |
| father | William Paterson ⓘ |
| fatherCountryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fatherOccupation |
jurist
ⓘ
politician ⓘ |
| givenName | Cornelia ⓘ |
| languageOfCommunication | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Paterson family
ⓘ
Van Rensselaer family ⓘ |
| notableFor |
connection to early American political elite
ⓘ
marriage into the Van Rensselaer family ⓘ |
| occupation | socialite ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | New York ⓘ |
| relative | William Paterson ⓘ |
| spouse | Stephen Van Rensselaer ⓘ |
| spouseCountryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation |
landowner
ⓘ
politician ⓘ |
| spousePositionHeld |
patroon of Rensselaerswyck
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Lieutenant Governor of New York ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
early 19th century
ⓘ
late 18th century ⓘ |
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: Cornelia Paterson Description of subject: Cornelia Paterson was a member of a prominent early American political family who became the wife of New York landowner and politician Stephen Van Rensselaer.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.