Augusta Adams Cobb
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Augusta Adams Cobb was a 19th-century American woman best known as one of Brigham Young’s plural wives and an early participant in Mormon polygamy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Augusta Adams Cobb canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5296608 — 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: Augusta Adams Cobb Context triple: [Brigham Young, spouse, Augusta Adams Cobb]
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A.
Mary Stone Hays
Mary Stone Hays was the wife of influential American politician and film industry figure Will H. Hays, known for her role in his personal and social life.
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B.
Mary Eliza Church
Mary Eliza Church was an African American civil rights activist, educator, and suffragist who became one of the first Black women in the United States to earn a college degree and a prominent leader in the fight against racial and gender discrimination.
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C.
Marian Hooper Adams
Marian Hooper Adams was a cultured 19th-century American socialite and pioneering amateur photographer in Washington, D.C., whose tragic death deeply affected her husband, historian Henry Adams.
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D.
Elizabeth Cabell
Elizabeth Cabell was a member of the prominent Cabell family of Virginia, known for her role within this influential early American lineage.
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E.
Mary Maxcy Herndon
Mary Maxcy Herndon was the wife of American lawyer and Abraham Lincoln’s law partner William H. Herndon.
- 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: Augusta Adams Cobb Target entity description: Augusta Adams Cobb was a 19th-century American woman best known as one of Brigham Young’s plural wives and an early participant in Mormon polygamy.
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A.
Mary Stone Hays
Mary Stone Hays was the wife of influential American politician and film industry figure Will H. Hays, known for her role in his personal and social life.
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B.
Mary Eliza Church
Mary Eliza Church was an African American civil rights activist, educator, and suffragist who became one of the first Black women in the United States to earn a college degree and a prominent leader in the fight against racial and gender discrimination.
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C.
Marian Hooper Adams
Marian Hooper Adams was a cultured 19th-century American socialite and pioneering amateur photographer in Washington, D.C., whose tragic death deeply affected her husband, historian Henry Adams.
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D.
Elizabeth Cabell
Elizabeth Cabell was a member of the prominent Cabell family of Virginia, known for her role within this influential early American lineage.
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E.
Mary Maxcy Herndon
Mary Maxcy Herndon was the wife of American lawyer and Abraham Lincoln’s law partner William H. Herndon.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
19th-century American woman
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Brigham Young
ⓘ
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ⓘ |
| century | 19th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | European American ⓘ |
| familyName | Cobb ⓘ |
| givenName | Augusta ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | early Mormon polygamy era ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | plural wife ⓘ |
| movement | Mormonism ⓘ |
| name | Augusta Adams Cobb ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of Brigham Young’s plural wives
ⓘ
early participation in Mormon polygamy ⓘ |
| notableRole | early Latter-day Saint plural wife ⓘ |
| occupation | homemaker ⓘ |
| practice | plural marriage ⓘ |
| religion |
Latter Day Saint movement
ⓘ
linked to:
Latter-day Saint movement churches
|
| residence |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
Utah Territory ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse |
Brigham Young
ⓘ
Thomas Cobb ⓘ
linked to:
Thomas R. R. Cobb
|
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: Augusta Adams Cobb Description of subject: Augusta Adams Cobb was a 19th-century American woman best known as one of Brigham Young’s plural wives and an early participant in Mormon polygamy.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.