Mayflower passenger John Tilley
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Mayflower passenger John Tilley was an English Separatist and early settler of Plymouth Colony who sailed on the Mayflower in 1620 and signed the Mayflower Compact.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mayflower passenger John Tilley canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9316164 — 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 Tilley Context triple: [Elizabeth Howland, relative, Mayflower passenger John Tilley]
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Mayflower passenger John Howland
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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B.
Mayflower passenger Elizabeth Tilley
Mayflower passenger Elizabeth Tilley was an early English colonist who survived the 1620 voyage, signed the Mayflower Compact through her family, and became an important ancestor of many prominent New England families.
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C.
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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D.
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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E.
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.
- 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 Tilley Target entity description: Mayflower passenger John Tilley was an English Separatist and early settler of Plymouth Colony who sailed on the Mayflower in 1620 and signed the Mayflower Compact.
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A.
Mayflower passenger John Howland
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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B.
Mayflower passenger Elizabeth Tilley
Mayflower passenger Elizabeth Tilley was an early English colonist who survived the 1620 voyage, signed the Mayflower Compact through her family, and became an important ancestor of many prominent New England families.
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C.
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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D.
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English Separatist
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Mayflower passenger ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Mayflower Compact signers
NERFINISHED
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Plymouth Colony NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| baptismDate | 1571-12-19 ⓘ |
| baptismPlace | Henlow, Bedfordshire, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Henlow, Bedfordshire, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Cole’s Hill Burial Ground, Plymouth, Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child | Elizabeth Tilley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1620-1621 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Plymouth, Plymouth Colony NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| diedDuring | first winter in Plymouth Colony ⓘ |
| ethnicity | English ⓘ |
| familyName | Tilley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | John NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalEra | early 17th century ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being a passenger on the Mayflower
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being an early settler of Plymouth Colony ⓘ signing the Mayflower Compact ⓘ |
| migration | England to New England ⓘ |
| notableDescendant |
John Howland (by marriage through Elizabeth Tilley)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
numerous colonial American families ⓘ |
| religiousAffiliation |
Protestantism
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Separatist ⓘ |
| roleInColony | original Plymouth settler ⓘ |
| shipPassengerOn | Mayflower NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sibling | Edward Tilley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| signed | Mayflower Compact NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Joan Hurst NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| traveledWith |
Ann Tilley
NERFINISHED
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Edward Tilley NERFINISHED ⓘ Elizabeth Tilley NERFINISHED ⓘ Joan Hurst NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| voyageYear | 1620 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 Tilley Description of subject: Mayflower passenger John Tilley was an English Separatist and early settler of Plymouth Colony who sailed on the Mayflower in 1620 and signed the Mayflower Compact.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.