Cornelia Washburn
E909717
Cornelia Washburn was the wife of Lyman J. Gage, a prominent American financier and U.S. Secretary of the Treasury at the turn of the 20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cornelia Washburn canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9544658 — 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: Cornelia Washburn Context triple: [Lyman J. Gage, spouse, Cornelia Washburn]
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A.
Arabella D. Worsham
Arabella D. Worsham was a prominent 19th-century New York socialite and art collector who rose from modest origins to become a leading figure in Gilded Age high society.
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B.
Flora E. Rawson
Flora E. Rawson was the wife of American politician William Stephens, who served as the 24th governor of California.
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C.
Mary Frances Reynolds
Mary Frances Reynolds, better known as Debbie Reynolds, was an American actress, singer, and dancer famed for her roles in classic Hollywood films such as "Singin' in the Rain."
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D.
Sarah H. Joslyn
Sarah H. Joslyn was a prominent Omaha philanthropist whose generosity and patronage of the arts led to the creation of the Joslyn Art Museum.
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E.
Mary T. Hill
Mary T. Hill was the wife of railroad magnate James J. Hill and a prominent St. Paul philanthropist and social figure in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- 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: Cornelia Washburn Target entity description: Cornelia Washburn was the wife of Lyman J. Gage, a prominent American financier and U.S. Secretary of the Treasury at the turn of the 20th century.
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A.
Arabella D. Worsham
Arabella D. Worsham was a prominent 19th-century New York socialite and art collector who rose from modest origins to become a leading figure in Gilded Age high society.
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B.
Flora E. Rawson
Flora E. Rawson was the wife of American politician William Stephens, who served as the 24th governor of California.
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C.
Mary Frances Reynolds
Mary Frances Reynolds, better known as Debbie Reynolds, was an American actress, singer, and dancer famed for her roles in classic Hollywood films such as "Singin' in the Rain."
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D.
Sarah H. Joslyn
Sarah H. Joslyn was a prominent Omaha philanthropist whose generosity and patronage of the arts led to the creation of the Joslyn Art Museum.
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E.
Mary T. Hill
Mary T. Hill was the wife of railroad magnate James J. Hill and a prominent St. Paul philanthropist and social figure in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| name | Cornelia Washburn ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of Lyman J. Gage ⓘ |
| occupation | financier ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
United States Secretary of the Treasury
ⓘ
linked to:
Secretary of the Treasury
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| spouse |
Cornelia Washburn
ⓘ
Lyman J. Gage ⓘ |
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: Cornelia Washburn Description of subject: Cornelia Washburn was the wife of Lyman J. Gage, a prominent American financier and U.S. Secretary of the Treasury at the turn of the 20th century.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.