Francis Cooke
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Francis Cooke was an English Separatist and early Pilgrim settler who voyaged on the Mayflower and became one of the founders of Plymouth Colony in 1620.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Francis Cooke canonical | 13 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T88128 — 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: Francis Cooke Context triple: [Mayflower Compact, signedBy, Francis Cooke]
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A.
John Kirk
John Kirk is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals across various professions and historical periods.
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B.
Edward Leister
Edward Leister was an English colonist and passenger on the Mayflower who became one of the signers of the Mayflower Compact in 1620.
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C.
Daniel Pope Cook
Daniel Pope Cook was an early 19th-century American politician and lawyer from Illinois who served as a U.S. Representative and was influential in the state's formative years.
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D.
Francis Smith
Francis Smith was a British Army officer best known for leading the regular troops during the opening engagements of the American Revolutionary War at Lexington and Concord in 1775.
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E.
Robert Hodgen
Robert Hodgen was an early settler and landowner in central Kentucky whose name was given to the town of Hodgenville.
- 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: Francis Cooke Target entity description: Francis Cooke was an English Separatist and early Pilgrim settler who voyaged on the Mayflower and became one of the founders of Plymouth Colony in 1620.
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A.
John Kirk
John Kirk is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals across various professions and historical periods.
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B.
Edward Leister
Edward Leister was an English colonist and passenger on the Mayflower who became one of the signers of the Mayflower Compact in 1620.
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C.
Daniel Pope Cook
Daniel Pope Cook was an early 19th-century American politician and lawyer from Illinois who served as a U.S. Representative and was influential in the state's formative years.
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D.
Francis Smith
Francis Smith was a British Army officer best known for leading the regular troops during the opening engagements of the American Revolutionary War at Lexington and Concord in 1775.
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E.
Robert Hodgen
Robert Hodgen was an early settler and landowner in central Kentucky whose name was given to the town of Hodgenville.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English Separatist
ⓘ
Mayflower passenger ⓘ Pilgrim ⓘ Plymouth Colony settler ⓘ person ⓘ |
| arrivalDate | 1620 ⓘ |
| arrivedIn | Plymouth Colony ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Mayflower Compact signatories
ⓘ
Pilgrims ⓘ
surface form:
Pilgrims (Plymouth Colony)
Plymouth Colony ⓘ |
| birthPlace | England ⓘ |
| child |
Hester Cooke
ⓘ
Jacob Cooke ⓘ Jane Cooke ⓘ John Cooke ⓘ Mary Cooke ⓘ |
| citizenship | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | England ⓘ |
| era |
17th century
ⓘ
Colonial America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English ⓘ |
| familyName | Cooke ⓘ |
| founderOf | Plymouth Colony ⓘ |
| givenName | Francis ⓘ |
| historicalRegion | New England ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Being a signer of the Mayflower Compact
ⓘ
Being an early Pilgrim settler at Plymouth ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| migration | English emigration to North America ⓘ |
| name | Francis Cooke self-link ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Plymouth Colony
ⓘ
surface form:
Founding of Plymouth Colony
|
| occupation |
colonist
ⓘ
farmer ⓘ |
| partOf |
Plymouth Colony
ⓘ
surface form:
Plymouth Colony founding generation
|
| passengerOn | Mayflower ⓘ |
| religion |
Protestantism
ⓘ
Separatist ⓘ |
| role | early settler of New England ⓘ |
| settledIn |
Plymouth Colony
ⓘ
surface form:
Plymouth, New Plymouth Colony
|
| signed | Mayflower Compact ⓘ |
| spouse | Hester Mahieu ⓘ |
| voyage |
Mayflower
ⓘ
surface form:
Mayflower voyage (1620)
|
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: Francis Cooke Description of subject: Francis Cooke was an English Separatist and early Pilgrim settler who voyaged on the Mayflower and became one of the founders of Plymouth Colony in 1620.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Hester Mahieu