Cornelius Howard
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Cornelius Howard was a member of the prominent Howard family of Maryland and the father of American Revolutionary War officer and statesman John Eager Howard.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cornelius Howard canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4713910 — 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: Cornelius Howard Context triple: [John Eager Howard, father, Cornelius Howard]
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A.
Cornelius Mathews
Cornelius Mathews was a 19th-century American writer and editor associated with the Young America movement, known for his satirical and nationalistic literary works.
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B.
Cornelius Johnson
Cornelius Johnson was an American high jumper who won the gold medal at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, setting an Olympic record and challenging Nazi racial ideology.
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C.
Alonzo B. Cornell
Alonzo B. Cornell was an American politician and businessman who served as governor of New York in the early 1880s and was a prominent figure in the Republican Party during the Gilded Age.
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D.
Cyrus K. Holliday
Cyrus K. Holliday was a 19th-century American railroad executive, politician, and co-founder of both the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway and the city of Topeka, Kansas.
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E.
Augustus F. Hawkins
Augustus F. Hawkins was a pioneering African American U.S. Congressman from California known for his leadership on civil rights, labor, and full-employment legislation.
- 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: Cornelius Howard Target entity description: Cornelius Howard was a member of the prominent Howard family of Maryland and the father of American Revolutionary War officer and statesman John Eager Howard.
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A.
Cornelius Mathews
Cornelius Mathews was a 19th-century American writer and editor associated with the Young America movement, known for his satirical and nationalistic literary works.
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B.
Cornelius Johnson
Cornelius Johnson was an American high jumper who won the gold medal at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, setting an Olympic record and challenging Nazi racial ideology.
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C.
Alonzo B. Cornell
Alonzo B. Cornell was an American politician and businessman who served as governor of New York in the early 1880s and was a prominent figure in the Republican Party during the Gilded Age.
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D.
Cyrus K. Holliday
Cyrus K. Holliday was a 19th-century American railroad executive, politician, and co-founder of both the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway and the city of Topeka, Kansas.
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E.
Augustus F. Hawkins
Augustus F. Hawkins was a pioneering African American U.S. Congressman from California known for his leadership on civil rights, labor, and full-employment legislation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (14)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| child | John Eager Howard ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Colonial America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
English Americans
ⓘ
linked to:
English American
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| memberOf | Howard family of Maryland ⓘ |
| notableFamilyMember | John Eager Howard ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the father of John Eager Howard ⓘ |
| occupation | planter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Maryland ⓘ |
| religion |
Anglicanism
ⓘ
linked to:
Anglicanism (broadly)
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| residence | Maryland ⓘ |
| socialStatus | prominent Maryland family member ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 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: Cornelius Howard Description of subject: Cornelius Howard was a member of the prominent Howard family of Maryland and the father of American Revolutionary War officer and statesman John Eager Howard.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.