Todd
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Todd is the maiden surname of Mary Todd Lincoln, the First Lady of the United States during Abraham Lincoln’s presidency.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T844282 — 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: Todd Context triple: [Mary Todd Lincoln, familyName, Todd]
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A.
Tim
Tim is the given name of Tim Wu, a prominent legal scholar and policy advocate known for coining the term "net neutrality."
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B.
Ted
Ted is a masculine given name, often a diminutive of Theodore or Edward, commonly used in English-speaking countries.
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C.
Ted
Ted is a 2012 comedy film about a foul-mouthed living teddy bear, created by and starring Seth MacFarlane.
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D.
Tony
The Tony is a prestigious American theater award presented annually to recognize excellence in Broadway productions.
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E.
Trevor
Trevor is a masculine given name of English origin commonly used in the UK and other English-speaking countries.
- 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: Todd Target entity description: Todd is the maiden surname of Mary Todd Lincoln, the First Lady of the United States during Abraham Lincoln’s presidency.
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A.
Tim
Tim is the given name of Tim Wu, a prominent legal scholar and policy advocate known for coining the term "net neutrality."
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B.
Ted
Ted is a masculine given name, often a diminutive of Theodore or Edward, commonly used in English-speaking countries.
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C.
Ted
Ted is a 2012 comedy film about a foul-mouthed living teddy bear, created by and starring Seth MacFarlane.
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D.
Tony
The Tony is a prestigious American theater award presented annually to recognize excellence in Broadway productions.
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E.
Trevor
Trevor is a masculine given name of English origin commonly used in the UK and other English-speaking countries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family name
ⓘ
surname ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Abraham Lincoln ⓘ |
| category |
English-language surnames
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Surnames from nicknames ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Tod
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linked to:
Todd
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| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| maidenSurnameOf | Mary Todd Lincoln ⓘ |
| meaning | fox (from Middle English "todde" or "tod") ⓘ |
| usedBy | Mary Todd Lincoln ⓘ |
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: Todd Description of subject: Todd is the maiden surname of Mary Todd Lincoln, the First Lady of the United States during Abraham Lincoln’s presidency.
Referenced by (25)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Todd