Theodore Tilton
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Theodore Tilton was a 19th-century American newspaper editor, abolitionist, and writer best known for his role in the Beecher-Tilton adultery scandal.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Theodore Tilton canonical | 15 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1346846 — 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: Theodore Tilton Context triple: [Sydney Howard Gay, collaboratedWith, Theodore Tilton]
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A.
Nora Stanton Blatch
Nora Stanton Blatch was a pioneering American civil engineer, architect, and women's rights activist who was among the first women in the United States to earn an engineering degree.
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B.
Sara Ann Delano
Sara Ann Delano was an American socialite and the mother of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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C.
Alice C. Tyler
Alice C. Tyler was a philanthropist and environmental advocate whose legacy is honored through the prestigious Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement.
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D.
Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur
Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur was the First Lady of the United States during part of Chester A. Arthur’s presidency, remembered for her social grace and her early death before fully assuming White House duties.
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E.
Helen Dinsmore Huntington
Helen Dinsmore Huntington was an American socialite and arts patron from a prominent New York family, best known for her influential role in early 20th-century high society and cultural philanthropy.
- 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: Theodore Tilton Target entity description: Theodore Tilton was a 19th-century American newspaper editor, abolitionist, and writer best known for his role in the Beecher-Tilton adultery scandal.
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A.
Nora Stanton Blatch
Nora Stanton Blatch was a pioneering American civil engineer, architect, and women's rights activist who was among the first women in the United States to earn an engineering degree.
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B.
Sara Ann Delano
Sara Ann Delano was an American socialite and the mother of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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C.
Alice C. Tyler
Alice C. Tyler was a philanthropist and environmental advocate whose legacy is honored through the prestigious Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement.
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D.
Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur
Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur was the First Lady of the United States during part of Chester A. Arthur’s presidency, remembered for her social grace and her early death before fully assuming White House duties.
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E.
Helen Dinsmore Huntington
Helen Dinsmore Huntington was an American socialite and arts patron from a prominent New York family, best known for her influential role in early 20th-century high society and cultural philanthropy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Theodore Tilton Description of subject: Theodore Tilton was a 19th-century American newspaper editor, abolitionist, and writer best known for his role in the Beecher-Tilton adultery scandal.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.