Desire Gorham
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Desire Gorham was a colonial-era New England woman known primarily through genealogical records as the daughter of early Plymouth Colony settler Desire Howland.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Desire Gorham canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9195369 — 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: Desire Gorham Context triple: [Desire Howland, child, Desire Gorham]
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A.
Wilmot Reed
Wilmot Reed is the given first and middle name of Reed Hastings, the American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and former CEO of Netflix.
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B.
Gailard Sartain
Gailard Sartain is an American character actor and comedian known for his supporting roles in numerous films and television shows, including appearances in popular comedies and family movies.
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C.
Mordecai Brown
Mordecai Brown was a Hall of Fame Major League Baseball pitcher, nicknamed "Three Finger," renowned for his exceptional control and success with the Chicago Cubs in the early 20th century.
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D.
Ephraim Goodweather
Ephraim Goodweather is an epidemiologist and the central protagonist of "The Strain," leading the fight against a vampiric plague threatening humanity.
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E.
Zephaniah Swift Moore
Zephaniah Swift Moore was a 19th-century American clergyman and educator who served as the second president of Williams College and became the founding president of Amherst College.
- 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: Desire Gorham Target entity description: Desire Gorham was a colonial-era New England woman known primarily through genealogical records as the daughter of early Plymouth Colony settler Desire Howland.
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A.
Wilmot Reed
Wilmot Reed is the given first and middle name of Reed Hastings, the American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and former CEO of Netflix.
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B.
Gailard Sartain
Gailard Sartain is an American character actor and comedian known for his supporting roles in numerous films and television shows, including appearances in popular comedies and family movies.
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C.
Mordecai Brown
Mordecai Brown was a Hall of Fame Major League Baseball pitcher, nicknamed "Three Finger," renowned for his exceptional control and success with the Chicago Cubs in the early 20th century.
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D.
Ephraim Goodweather
Ephraim Goodweather is an epidemiologist and the central protagonist of "The Strain," leading the fight against a vampiric plague threatening humanity.
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E.
Zephaniah Swift Moore
Zephaniah Swift Moore was a 19th-century American clergyman and educator who served as the second president of Williams College and became the founding president of Amherst College.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
colonial American woman
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human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Plymouth Colony ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English colonists in North America ⓘ |
| familyName | Gorham ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Desire ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| mother | Desire Howland ⓘ |
| notableFor | appearance in colonial New England genealogical records ⓘ |
| residence |
New England
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Plymouth Colony ⓘ |
| timePeriod | colonial era ⓘ |
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: Desire Gorham Description of subject: Desire Gorham was a colonial-era New England woman known primarily through genealogical records as the daughter of early Plymouth Colony settler Desire Howland.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.