Todd family
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The Todd family is a prominent American political and social family best known for including Mary Todd Lincoln, the wife of President Abraham Lincoln.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Todd family canonical | 16 |
| Todd family lineage | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T844294 — 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 family Context triple: [Mary Todd Lincoln, memberOfPoliticalFamily, Todd family]
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A.
Johnson family
The Johnson family is an American business dynasty best known for its ownership of the New York Jets and its ties to the Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical fortune.
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B.
West family
The West family is a high-profile American celebrity family best known for including rapper and producer Kanye West and media personality Kim Kardashian and their children.
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C.
Jackson family
The Jackson family is a prominent American show-business dynasty best known for producing globally influential entertainers including Michael and Janet Jackson.
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D.
Allen family
The Allen family is the group of relatives and beneficiaries associated with the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, inheriting and overseeing his substantial estate and philanthropic legacy.
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E.
Smith family
The Smith family is the central human household in the animated television series "American Dad!", with whom the extraterrestrial character Roger the Alien lives and interacts.
- 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 family Target entity description: The Todd family is a prominent American political and social family best known for including Mary Todd Lincoln, the wife of President Abraham Lincoln.
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A.
Johnson family
The Johnson family is an American business dynasty best known for its ownership of the New York Jets and its ties to the Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical fortune.
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B.
West family
The West family is a high-profile American celebrity family best known for including rapper and producer Kanye West and media personality Kim Kardashian and their children.
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C.
Jackson family
The Jackson family is a prominent American show-business dynasty best known for producing globally influential entertainers including Michael and Janet Jackson.
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D.
Allen family
The Allen family is the group of relatives and beneficiaries associated with the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, inheriting and overseeing his substantial estate and philanthropic legacy.
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E.
Smith family
The Smith family is the central human household in the animated television series "American Dad!", with whom the extraterrestrial character Roger the Alien lives and interacts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American family
ⓘ
political family ⓘ social family ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Abraham Lincoln
ⓘ
Lexington, Kentucky ⓘ Mary Todd Lincoln House ⓘ Springfield, Illinois ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| ethnicity | primarily of British descent ⓘ |
| hasAncestor | Levi Todd ⓘ |
| hasCulturalDepiction |
biographies of Mary Todd Lincoln
ⓘ
films and television works about Abraham Lincoln and his family ⓘ |
| hasFamilySeat |
Mary Todd Lincoln House in Lexington, Kentucky
ⓘ
linked to:
Mary Todd Lincoln House
|
| hasMemberRole |
lawyers
ⓘ
military officers ⓘ planter elite ⓘ politicians ⓘ |
| hasNotableMarriageAlliance |
Edwards family of Illinois
ⓘ
linked to:
Edwards family
Lincoln family ⓘ |
| hasOrigin |
Kentucky
ⓘ
Lexington, Kentucky ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance |
connected to the presidency of Abraham Lincoln through Mary Todd Lincoln
ⓘ
illustrates divided loyalties of border-state families during the American Civil War ⓘ |
| knownFor |
involvement in 19th-century American politics and society
ⓘ
producing Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of Abraham Lincoln ⓘ |
| Levi Todd_role | early Kentucky settler and landholder ⓘ |
| Mary Todd Lincoln_birthplace | Lexington, Kentucky ⓘ |
| Mary Todd Lincoln_role | First Lady of the United States ⓘ |
| Mary Todd Lincoln_spouse | Abraham Lincoln ⓘ |
| memberSupportedSideInCivilWar |
Confederacy
ⓘ
linked to:
Confederate States of America
Union ⓘ |
| notableMember |
Eliza Parker Todd
ⓘ
Elizabeth Todd Grimsley ⓘ
linked to:
Elizabeth Humphreys Todd
John Todd ⓘ Levi Todd ⓘ Mary Todd Lincoln ⓘ Robert Smith Todd ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment |
Southern Democratic sympathies among some members
ⓘ
mixed Whig and later Republican sympathies among some members ⓘ |
| region |
American South
ⓘ
linked to:
Southern United States
border states ⓘ |
| religiousBackground | largely Presbyterian ⓘ |
| Robert Smith Todd_role | businessman and politician in Kentucky ⓘ |
| socialClass | upper class ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfProminence | 19th century ⓘ |
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 family Description of subject: The Todd family is a prominent American political and social family best known for including Mary Todd Lincoln, the wife of President Abraham Lincoln.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.