Robert Smith Todd
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Robert Smith Todd was a prominent Kentucky businessman and politician of the early 19th century, best known as the father of Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of President Abraham Lincoln.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Robert Smith Todd canonical | 9 |
| Robert S. Todd (maternal grandfather) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T844296 — 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: Robert Smith Todd Context triple: [Mary Todd Lincoln, father, Robert Smith Todd]
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A.
William Burnet Tuthill
William Burnet Tuthill was an American architect best known for designing New York City's renowned concert venue Carnegie Hall.
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B.
Henry Wheaton
Henry Wheaton was a 19th-century American jurist, diplomat, and pioneering scholar of international law whose writings significantly shaped the field.
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C.
Benjamin Wade
Benjamin Wade was a prominent 19th-century American politician and leading Radical Republican senator known for his strong anti-slavery stance and advocacy of harsh Reconstruction policies toward the former Confederate states.
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D.
Cushman K. Davis
Cushman K. Davis was an American politician, lawyer, and diplomat who served as a U.S. Senator from Minnesota and played a key role in foreign affairs at the turn of the 20th century.
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E.
John A. Wilson
John A. Wilson was a prominent Washington, D.C. politician and public servant, notably serving as chairman of the Council of the District of Columbia.
- 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: Robert Smith Todd Target entity description: Robert Smith Todd was a prominent Kentucky businessman and politician of the early 19th century, best known as the father of Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of President Abraham Lincoln.
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A.
William Burnet Tuthill
William Burnet Tuthill was an American architect best known for designing New York City's renowned concert venue Carnegie Hall.
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B.
Henry Wheaton
Henry Wheaton was a 19th-century American jurist, diplomat, and pioneering scholar of international law whose writings significantly shaped the field.
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C.
Benjamin Wade
Benjamin Wade was a prominent 19th-century American politician and leading Radical Republican senator known for his strong anti-slavery stance and advocacy of harsh Reconstruction policies toward the former Confederate states.
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D.
Cushman K. Davis
Cushman K. Davis was an American politician, lawyer, and diplomat who served as a U.S. Senator from Minnesota and played a key role in foreign affairs at the turn of the 20th century.
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E.
John A. Wilson
John A. Wilson was a prominent Washington, D.C. politician and public servant, notably serving as chairman of the Council of the District of Columbia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: Robert Smith Todd Description of subject: Robert Smith Todd was a prominent Kentucky businessman and politician of the early 19th century, best known as the father of Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of President Abraham Lincoln.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Tad
linked to: Robert Smith Todd
subject linked to:
prominent Todd family of Kentucky