Temperance Gorham
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Temperance Gorham was a colonial-era New England woman known primarily through genealogical records as the daughter of Desire Howland, linking her to the prominent Howland family of early Plymouth settlers.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Temperance Gorham canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9195370 — 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: Temperance Gorham Context triple: [Desire Howland, child, Temperance Gorham]
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A.
Lydia McLane Johnston
Lydia McLane Johnston was the wife of Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston and a member of the prominent McLane family of Baltimore.
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B.
Constance Baines
Constance Baines is one of the central sisters in Arnold Bennett’s novel "The Old Wives’ Tale," whose life story illustrates the quiet struggles and transformations of provincial English womanhood.
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C.
Elizabeth Woolridge Grant
Elizabeth Woolridge Grant is the American singer-songwriter and record producer better known by her stage name Lana Del Rey, acclaimed for her cinematic, melancholic pop music.
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D.
Abigail Chase
Abigail Chase is a fictional historian and archivist who becomes a key ally and love interest to treasure hunter Benjamin Franklin Gates in the "National Treasure" film series.
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E.
Blanche Butler
Blanche Butler was the daughter of American Civil War general and politician Benjamin F. Butler, known primarily for her connection to this prominent 19th-century figure.
- 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: Temperance Gorham Target entity description: Temperance Gorham was a colonial-era New England woman known primarily through genealogical records as the daughter of Desire Howland, linking her to the prominent Howland family of early Plymouth settlers.
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A.
Lydia McLane Johnston
Lydia McLane Johnston was the wife of Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston and a member of the prominent McLane family of Baltimore.
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B.
Constance Baines
Constance Baines is one of the central sisters in Arnold Bennett’s novel "The Old Wives’ Tale," whose life story illustrates the quiet struggles and transformations of provincial English womanhood.
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C.
Elizabeth Woolridge Grant
Elizabeth Woolridge Grant is the American singer-songwriter and record producer better known by her stage name Lana Del Rey, acclaimed for her cinematic, melancholic pop music.
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D.
Abigail Chase
Abigail Chase is a fictional historian and archivist who becomes a key ally and love interest to treasure hunter Benjamin Franklin Gates in the "National Treasure" film series.
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E.
Blanche Butler
Blanche Butler was the daughter of American Civil War general and politician Benjamin F. Butler, known primarily for her connection to this prominent 19th-century figure.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (17)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | person ⓘ |
| associatedWith | early Plymouth settlers ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Colonial America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
English colonists in New England
ⓘ
linked to:
British colonists
|
| familyName | Gorham ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Temperance ⓘ |
| hasAncestor | Howland family ⓘ |
| languageOfUse | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Howland family ⓘ |
| mother | Desire Howland ⓘ |
| notableFor | genealogical records ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Plymouth Colony ⓘ |
| residence |
New England
ⓘ
Plymouth Colony ⓘ |
| sourceOfInformation | genealogical records ⓘ |
| 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: Temperance Gorham Description of subject: Temperance Gorham was a colonial-era New England woman known primarily through genealogical records as the daughter of Desire Howland, linking her to the prominent Howland family of early Plymouth settlers.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.