Mayflower passenger John Howland
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Mayflower passenger John Howland was an English colonist who survived being swept overboard during the 1620 voyage and became a prominent early settler and landowner in Plymouth Colony, leaving many notable descendants.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mayflower passenger John Howland canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6428528 — 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: Mayflower passenger John Howland Context triple: [Jabez Howland, relative, Mayflower passenger John Howland]
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A.
Stephen Hopkins (Mayflower passenger)
Stephen Hopkins was an early English settler who sailed on the Mayflower in 1620 and signed the Mayflower Compact, playing a notable role in the founding of Plymouth Colony.
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B.
Edward Fuller (Mayflower passenger)
Edward Fuller was an English Separatist and early Pilgrim who sailed on the Mayflower in 1620 and signed the Mayflower Compact before dying during the first winter at Plymouth Colony.
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C.
William Brewster
William Brewster was a senior leader of the Pilgrim Separatists and a religious elder of Plymouth Colony who played a key role in guiding the Mayflower passengers and establishing their early governance.
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D.
William Brewster
William Brewster was a prominent American ornithologist and conservationist known for his influential role in the development of bird study and protection in the United States.
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E.
Edward Winslow
Edward Winslow was an English Separatist leader and diplomat who became a prominent governor of Plymouth Colony and an important figure in early New England history.
- 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: Mayflower passenger John Howland Target entity description: Mayflower passenger John Howland was an English colonist who survived being swept overboard during the 1620 voyage and became a prominent early settler and landowner in Plymouth Colony, leaving many notable descendants.
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A.
Stephen Hopkins (Mayflower passenger)
Stephen Hopkins was an early English settler who sailed on the Mayflower in 1620 and signed the Mayflower Compact, playing a notable role in the founding of Plymouth Colony.
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B.
Edward Fuller (Mayflower passenger)
Edward Fuller was an English Separatist and early Pilgrim who sailed on the Mayflower in 1620 and signed the Mayflower Compact before dying during the first winter at Plymouth Colony.
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C.
William Brewster
William Brewster was a senior leader of the Pilgrim Separatists and a religious elder of Plymouth Colony who played a key role in guiding the Mayflower passengers and establishing their early governance.
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D.
William Brewster
William Brewster was a prominent American ornithologist and conservationist known for his influential role in the development of bird study and protection in the United States.
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E.
Edward Winslow
Edward Winslow was an English Separatist leader and diplomat who became a prominent governor of Plymouth Colony and an important figure in early New England history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English colonist
ⓘ
Mayflower passenger ⓘ |
| birthPlace | England ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Plymouth, Plymouth Colony NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| colony | Plymouth Colony NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Howland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | John NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hadChild |
Desire Howland
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Elizabeth Howland NERFINISHED ⓘ Hannah Howland NERFINISHED ⓘ Hope Howland NERFINISHED ⓘ Isaac Howland NERFINISHED ⓘ Jabez Howland NERFINISHED ⓘ John Howland Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ Joseph Howland NERFINISHED ⓘ Lydia Howland NERFINISHED ⓘ Ruth Howland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableDescendant |
Alec Baldwin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Franklin D. Roosevelt NERFINISHED ⓘ George H. W. Bush NERFINISHED ⓘ George W. Bush NERFINISHED ⓘ Humphrey Bogart NERFINISHED ⓘ Joseph Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ Ralph Waldo Emerson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | early 17th century ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being an early settler of Plymouth Colony
ⓘ
having many notable descendants ⓘ surviving being swept overboard during the Mayflower voyage ⓘ |
| legacy | progenitor of a large number of American descendants ⓘ |
| marriagePlace | Plymouth Colony NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
colonist
ⓘ
farmer ⓘ landowner ⓘ |
| passengerOn | Mayflower NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalEntity | New England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Separatist ⓘ |
| residence | Plymouth, Plymouth Colony NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleInColony |
early settler
ⓘ
freeman of Plymouth Colony ⓘ landholder in Plymouth Colony ⓘ |
| settledIn | Plymouth Colony NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Elizabeth Tilley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouseFamily | Tilley family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouseInstanceOf | Mayflower passenger ⓘ |
| survivedIncident | being swept overboard during the Mayflower voyage ⓘ |
| traveledByShip | Mayflower NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| traveledWith | Pilgrims NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| voyage | Mayflower voyage of 1620 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Mayflower passenger John Howland Description of subject: Mayflower passenger John Howland was an English colonist who survived being swept overboard during the 1620 voyage and became a prominent early settler and landowner in Plymouth Colony, leaving many notable descendants.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.