Henrietta Silliman
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Henrietta Silliman was the wife of prominent American geologist and mineralogist James Dwight Dana and a member of the influential Silliman family associated with early American science and Yale College.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Henrietta Silliman canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10096503 — 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: Henrietta Silliman Context triple: [James Dwight Dana, spouse, Henrietta Silliman]
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A.
Sophia B. Packard
Sophia B. Packard was a 19th-century American educator and missionary best known for co-founding what became Spelman College, a pioneering institution for the higher education of Black women.
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B.
Maria Bissell Hotchkiss
Maria Bissell Hotchkiss was an American philanthropist best known for endowing and establishing the prestigious Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut.
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C.
Harriet E. Tuthill
Harriet E. Tuthill was the wife of American architect William Burnet Tuthill, best known for his design of Carnegie Hall in New York City.
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D.
Caroline Webster Schermerhorn
Caroline Webster Schermerhorn was a prominent American socialite of New York’s Gilded Age, best known as “Mrs. Astor,” the leading figure of high society during the late 19th century.
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E.
Catherine Robbins Lyman
Catherine Robbins Lyman was an American woman of New England background best known as the mother of Sara Ann Delano and thus a maternal ancestor of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- 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: Henrietta Silliman Target entity description: Henrietta Silliman was the wife of prominent American geologist and mineralogist James Dwight Dana and a member of the influential Silliman family associated with early American science and Yale College.
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A.
Sophia B. Packard
Sophia B. Packard was a 19th-century American educator and missionary best known for co-founding what became Spelman College, a pioneering institution for the higher education of Black women.
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B.
Maria Bissell Hotchkiss
Maria Bissell Hotchkiss was an American philanthropist best known for endowing and establishing the prestigious Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut.
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C.
Harriet E. Tuthill
Harriet E. Tuthill was the wife of American architect William Burnet Tuthill, best known for his design of Carnegie Hall in New York City.
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D.
Caroline Webster Schermerhorn
Caroline Webster Schermerhorn was a prominent American socialite of New York’s Gilded Age, best known as “Mrs. Astor,” the leading figure of high society during the late 19th century.
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E.
Catherine Robbins Lyman
Catherine Robbins Lyman was an American woman of New England background best known as the mother of Sara Ann Delano and thus a maternal ancestor of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical figure
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human ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
James Dwight Dana
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Yale College ⓘ Yale University ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 19th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | American ⓘ |
| familyName | Silliman ⓘ |
| fieldOfInfluence | American scientific community ⓘ |
| givenName | Henrietta ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| memberOf | Silliman family ⓘ |
| name | Henrietta Silliman ⓘ |
| notableFor |
association with Yale College through the Silliman family
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connection to early American science ⓘ |
| relative |
Benjamin Silliman
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Benjamin Silliman Jr. ⓘ
linked to:
Benjamin Silliman
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| socialStatus | member of prominent scientific family ⓘ |
| spouse | James Dwight Dana ⓘ |
| spouseEmployer |
Yale College
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Yale University ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation |
geologist
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mineralogist ⓘ |
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: Henrietta Silliman Description of subject: Henrietta Silliman was the wife of prominent American geologist and mineralogist James Dwight Dana and a member of the influential Silliman family associated with early American science and Yale College.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.