Anna Catharina Maulin
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Anna Catharina Maulin was the wife of colonial American printer and free-press figure John Peter Zenger, likely involved in supporting his family and printing business in early 18th-century New York.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Anna Catharina Maulin canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4608005 — 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: Anna Catharina Maulin Context triple: [John Peter Zenger, spouse, Anna Catharina Maulin]
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A.
Gulielma Maria Springett
Gulielma Maria Springett was the first wife of William Penn, the Quaker leader and founder of Pennsylvania, and a fellow Quaker from a prominent religious family.
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B.
Cecilia Suyat
Cecilia Suyat was a Filipino American civil rights activist and secretary who played a key behind-the-scenes role in the NAACP and was the wife of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.
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C.
Maria Fitel
Maria Fitel is an alumna of the private Lakeside School in Seattle, known for educating many prominent figures in technology and business.
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D.
Marcella Araica
Marcella Araica is an American recording and mixing engineer and producer known for her work with major pop and R&B artists.
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E.
Anna Maria Elers
Anna Maria Elers was the first wife of Irish inventor and educationalist Richard Lovell Edgeworth and the mother of several of his children, including the writer Maria Edgeworth.
- 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: Anna Catharina Maulin Target entity description: Anna Catharina Maulin was the wife of colonial American printer and free-press figure John Peter Zenger, likely involved in supporting his family and printing business in early 18th-century New York.
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A.
Gulielma Maria Springett
Gulielma Maria Springett was the first wife of William Penn, the Quaker leader and founder of Pennsylvania, and a fellow Quaker from a prominent religious family.
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B.
Cecilia Suyat
Cecilia Suyat was a Filipino American civil rights activist and secretary who played a key behind-the-scenes role in the NAACP and was the wife of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.
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C.
Maria Fitel
Maria Fitel is an alumna of the private Lakeside School in Seattle, known for educating many prominent figures in technology and business.
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D.
Marcella Araica
Marcella Araica is an American recording and mixing engineer and producer known for her work with major pop and R&B artists.
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E.
Anna Maria Elers
Anna Maria Elers was the first wife of Irish inventor and educationalist Richard Lovell Edgeworth and the mother of several of his children, including the writer Maria Edgeworth.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical figure
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
John Peter Zenger free-press case
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linked to:
Zenger trial
Zenger printing business ⓘ
linked to:
The New-York Weekly Journal
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| countryOfResidence | Colonial America ⓘ |
| fieldOfActivity | printing (support role) ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| likelyActivity |
assisting in the operation of the Zenger printing business
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supporting her family in colonial New York ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| name | Anna Catharina Maulin ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of printer John Peter Zenger ⓘ |
| placeOfResidence |
New York
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ |
| spouse | John Peter Zenger ⓘ |
| timePeriod | early 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: Anna Catharina Maulin Description of subject: Anna Catharina Maulin was the wife of colonial American printer and free-press figure John Peter Zenger, likely involved in supporting his family and printing business in early 18th-century New York.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.