Matilda Ludwell Lee
E153824
Matilda Ludwell Lee was an American heiress and member of the prominent Lee family of Virginia in the late 18th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Matilda Ludwell Lee canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1351134 — 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: Matilda Ludwell Lee Context triple: [Henry Lee III, spouse, Matilda Ludwell Lee]
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A.
Mary Anna Custis Lee
Mary Anna Custis Lee was the wife of Confederate General Robert E. Lee and the great-granddaughter of Martha Washington, known as a prominent 19th-century Virginia aristocrat and plantation mistress.
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B.
Elizabeth Harrison Randolph
Elizabeth Harrison Randolph was a member of the prominent Harrison family of colonial Virginia and the wife of Peyton Randolph, the first President of the Continental Congress.
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C.
Varina Howell Davis
Varina Howell Davis was an American writer and the second wife of Jefferson Davis, serving as First Lady of the Confederate States during the American Civil War.
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D.
Elizabeth Virginia Wallace
Elizabeth Virginia Wallace, better known as Bess Truman, was the First Lady of the United States from 1945 to 1953 as the wife of President Harry S. Truman.
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E.
Helen Dortch Longstreet
Helen Dortch Longstreet was an American suffragist, newspaper publisher, and preservationist known for her advocacy of women's rights and for defending the legacy of her husband, Confederate General James Longstreet.
- 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: Matilda Ludwell Lee Target entity description: Matilda Ludwell Lee was an American heiress and member of the prominent Lee family of Virginia in the late 18th century.
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A.
Mary Anna Custis Lee
Mary Anna Custis Lee was the wife of Confederate General Robert E. Lee and the great-granddaughter of Martha Washington, known as a prominent 19th-century Virginia aristocrat and plantation mistress.
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B.
Elizabeth Harrison Randolph
Elizabeth Harrison Randolph was a member of the prominent Harrison family of colonial Virginia and the wife of Peyton Randolph, the first President of the Continental Congress.
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C.
Varina Howell Davis
Varina Howell Davis was an American writer and the second wife of Jefferson Davis, serving as First Lady of the Confederate States during the American Civil War.
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D.
Elizabeth Virginia Wallace
Elizabeth Virginia Wallace, better known as Bess Truman, was the First Lady of the United States from 1945 to 1953 as the wife of President Harry S. Truman.
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E.
Helen Dortch Longstreet
Helen Dortch Longstreet was an American suffragist, newspaper publisher, and preservationist known for her advocacy of women's rights and for defending the legacy of her husband, Confederate General James Longstreet.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American heiress
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human ⓘ member of the Lee family of Virginia ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English American ⓘ |
| familyName | Lee ⓘ |
| givenName | Matilda ⓘ |
| heritage | Virginia gentry ⓘ |
| languageUsed | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Lee family of Virginia ⓘ |
| notableFamily | Lee family of Virginia ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being an American heiress
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membership in the Lee family of Virginia ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Virginia ⓘ |
| residence |
United States of America
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Virginia ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| socialClass | planter aristocracy of Virginia ⓘ |
| socialStatus | elite ⓘ |
| timePeriod | late 18th 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: Matilda Ludwell Lee Description of subject: Matilda Ludwell Lee was an American heiress and member of the prominent Lee family of Virginia in the late 18th century.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.