Harriet Coffin Sumner
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Harriet Coffin Sumner was a 19th-century American woman best known as the wife of prominent Boston merchant and industrialist Nathan Appleton.
All labels observed (1)
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| Harriet Coffin Sumner canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10667849 — 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: Harriet Coffin Sumner Context triple: [Nathan Appleton, spouse, Harriet Coffin Sumner]
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A.
Abby Kelley Foster
Abby Kelley Foster was a prominent 19th-century American abolitionist and women’s rights advocate known for her radical activism and influential public speaking.
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B.
Isabella Beecher Hooker
Isabella Beecher Hooker was a prominent 19th-century American suffragist and women's rights advocate associated with the influential Beecher family.
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C.
Harriet Lothrop
Harriet Lothrop, better known by her pen name Margaret Sidney, was an American author famed for her "Five Little Peppers" children's book series and as the preserver of The Wayside historic home in Concord, Massachusetts.
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D.
Margaret Kemble Gage
Margaret Kemble Gage was an American-born socialite of the colonial era, best known as the wife of British General Thomas Gage and for later speculation that she may have secretly warned American patriots of British military plans before the Revolutionary War.
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E.
Mary Baker Williams
Mary Baker Williams was the wife of American planter and politician Henry Middleton, a prominent figure in colonial and early United States history.
- 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: Harriet Coffin Sumner Target entity description: Harriet Coffin Sumner was a 19th-century American woman best known as the wife of prominent Boston merchant and industrialist Nathan Appleton.
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A.
Abby Kelley Foster
Abby Kelley Foster was a prominent 19th-century American abolitionist and women’s rights advocate known for her radical activism and influential public speaking.
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B.
Isabella Beecher Hooker
Isabella Beecher Hooker was a prominent 19th-century American suffragist and women's rights advocate associated with the influential Beecher family.
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C.
Harriet Lothrop
Harriet Lothrop, better known by her pen name Margaret Sidney, was an American author famed for her "Five Little Peppers" children's book series and as the preserver of The Wayside historic home in Concord, Massachusetts.
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D.
Margaret Kemble Gage
Margaret Kemble Gage was an American-born socialite of the colonial era, best known as the wife of British General Thomas Gage and for later speculation that she may have secretly warned American patriots of British military plans before the Revolutionary War.
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E.
Mary Baker Williams
Mary Baker Williams was the wife of American planter and politician Henry Middleton, a prominent figure in colonial and early United States history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
19th-century American woman
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human ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 19th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Sumner ⓘ |
| givenName | Harriet ⓘ |
| hasMiddleName | Coffin ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of Boston merchant and industrialist Nathan Appleton ⓘ |
| occupation | socialite ⓘ |
| residence | Boston, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Nathan Appleton ⓘ |
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: Harriet Coffin Sumner Description of subject: Harriet Coffin Sumner was a 19th-century American woman best known as the wife of prominent Boston merchant and industrialist Nathan Appleton.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.