Margaret Sanford
E514425
Margaret Sanford was the wife of Thomas Hutchinson, the last civilian royal governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay before the American Revolution.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Margaret Sanford canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5252366 — 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: Margaret Sanford Context triple: [Thomas Hutchinson, spouse, Margaret Sanford]
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A.
Margaret Alexander
Margaret Alexander is the devout, domineering pastor and central figure in James Baldwin’s play *The Amen Corner*, whose personal struggles and family conflicts drive the drama’s exploration of faith and hypocrisy.
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B.
Margaret Gibson
Margaret Gibson was the wife of American actor Noah Beery, associated with the early Hollywood film era.
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C.
Margaret Kelly
Margaret Kelly is an American artist and the first wife of actor and comedian Bill Murray, to whom she was married from 1981 to 1996.
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D.
Margaret Penn
Margaret Penn was a 17th-century Englishwoman best known as the daughter of Admiral Sir William Penn and sister of William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania.
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E.
Margaret Haley
Margaret Haley was an influential American educator and labor activist who championed teachers' rights and helped pioneer the modern teachers' union movement.
- 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: Margaret Sanford Target entity description: Margaret Sanford was the wife of Thomas Hutchinson, the last civilian royal governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay before the American Revolution.
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A.
Margaret Alexander
Margaret Alexander is the devout, domineering pastor and central figure in James Baldwin’s play *The Amen Corner*, whose personal struggles and family conflicts drive the drama’s exploration of faith and hypocrisy.
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B.
Margaret Gibson
Margaret Gibson was the wife of American actor Noah Beery, associated with the early Hollywood film era.
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C.
Margaret Kelly
Margaret Kelly is an American artist and the first wife of actor and comedian Bill Murray, to whom she was married from 1981 to 1996.
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D.
Margaret Penn
Margaret Penn was a 17th-century Englishwoman best known as the daughter of Admiral Sir William Penn and sister of William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania.
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E.
Margaret Haley
Margaret Haley was an influential American educator and labor activist who championed teachers' rights and helped pioneer the modern teachers' union movement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
colonial American woman
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colonial governor ⓘ human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| name | Margaret Sanford ⓘ |
| positionHeld | royal governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay ⓘ |
| residence |
Boston
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Province of Massachusetts Bay ⓘ |
| role | last civilian royal governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay before the American Revolution ⓘ |
| spouse |
Margaret Sanford
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Thomas Hutchinson ⓘ |
| 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: Margaret Sanford Description of subject: Margaret Sanford was the wife of Thomas Hutchinson, the last civilian royal governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay before the American Revolution.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.