Mary Todd Lincoln
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Mary Todd Lincoln was the First Lady of the United States during Abraham Lincoln’s presidency, known for her political influence, personal tragedies, and controversial public image during and after the Civil War.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary Todd Lincoln canonical | 72 |
| Mary Ann Todd | 1 |
| Mary Lincoln | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13383 — 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: Mary Todd Lincoln Context triple: [Abraham Lincoln, spouse, Mary Todd Lincoln]
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A.
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy was an American socialite, philanthropist, and matriarch of the Kennedy political family, mother to President John F. Kennedy and several other prominent U.S. politicians.
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B.
Victoria Reggie Kennedy
Victoria Reggie Kennedy is an American attorney and diplomat who served as U.S. Ambassador to Austria and is the widow of longtime U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy.
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C.
Bess Truman
Bess Truman was the First Lady of the United States from 1945 to 1953, known for her private nature and support of President Harry S. Truman during his administration.
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D.
Martha Washington
Martha Washington was the first First Lady of the United States, a wealthy widow who managed large estates and played a key role as a social and political hostess during George Washington’s leadership.
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E.
Anna Roosevelt Halsted
Anna Roosevelt Halsted was the eldest daughter of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, known as a writer, newspaper editor, and political activist who played a prominent public role alongside her famous parents.
- 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: Mary Todd Lincoln Target entity description: Mary Todd Lincoln was the First Lady of the United States during Abraham Lincoln’s presidency, known for her political influence, personal tragedies, and controversial public image during and after the Civil War.
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A.
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy was an American socialite, philanthropist, and matriarch of the Kennedy political family, mother to President John F. Kennedy and several other prominent U.S. politicians.
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B.
Victoria Reggie Kennedy
Victoria Reggie Kennedy is an American attorney and diplomat who served as U.S. Ambassador to Austria and is the widow of longtime U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy.
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C.
Bess Truman
Bess Truman was the First Lady of the United States from 1945 to 1953, known for her private nature and support of President Harry S. Truman during his administration.
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D.
Martha Washington
Martha Washington was the first First Lady of the United States, a wealthy widow who managed large estates and played a key role as a social and political hostess during George Washington’s leadership.
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E.
Anna Roosevelt Halsted
Anna Roosevelt Halsted was the eldest daughter of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, known as a writer, newspaper editor, and political activist who played a prominent public role alongside her famous parents.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Mary Todd Lincoln Description of subject: Mary Todd Lincoln was the First Lady of the United States during Abraham Lincoln’s presidency, known for her political influence, personal tragedies, and controversial public image during and after the Civil War.
Referenced by (74)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.