Elizabeth Humphreys Todd
E241737
Elizabeth Humphreys Todd was the stepmother of Mary Todd Lincoln, the future First Lady of the United States.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Elizabeth Humphreys Todd canonical | 5 |
| Elizabeth Todd Grimsley | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T844319 — 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: Elizabeth Humphreys Todd Context triple: [Mary Todd Lincoln, stepmother, Elizabeth Humphreys Todd]
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A.
Flora Hewlett
Flora Hewlett was a philanthropist whose legacy is honored through the naming of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, a major charitable organization.
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B.
Margaret Moffette Lea
Margaret Moffette Lea was the second wife of Texas statesman Sam Houston and a prominent 19th-century Southern woman known for her influence on his personal life and religious convictions.
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C.
Ellen Louisa Tucker
Ellen Louisa Tucker was the first wife of American transcendentalist writer Ralph Waldo Emerson, whose early death deeply influenced his life and work.
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D.
Maud Humphrey
Maud Humphrey was an American illustrator and commercial artist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for her popular depictions of children and as the mother of actor Humphrey Bogart.
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E.
Margaret Bremond Rice
Margaret Bremond Rice was the wife of American businessman and philanthropist William Marsh Rice, founder of Rice University.
- 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: Elizabeth Humphreys Todd Target entity description: Elizabeth Humphreys Todd was the stepmother of Mary Todd Lincoln, the future First Lady of the United States.
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A.
Flora Hewlett
Flora Hewlett was a philanthropist whose legacy is honored through the naming of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, a major charitable organization.
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B.
Margaret Moffette Lea
Margaret Moffette Lea was the second wife of Texas statesman Sam Houston and a prominent 19th-century Southern woman known for her influence on his personal life and religious convictions.
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C.
Ellen Louisa Tucker
Ellen Louisa Tucker was the first wife of American transcendentalist writer Ralph Waldo Emerson, whose early death deeply influenced his life and work.
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D.
Maud Humphrey
Maud Humphrey was an American illustrator and commercial artist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for her popular depictions of children and as the mother of actor Humphrey Bogart.
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E.
Margaret Bremond Rice
Margaret Bremond Rice was the wife of American businessman and philanthropist William Marsh Rice, founder of Rice University.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | person ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 19th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| familyName | Todd ⓘ |
| givenName | Elizabeth ⓘ |
| name | Elizabeth Humphreys Todd ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the stepmother of Mary Todd Lincoln ⓘ |
| relativeByMarriage | Abraham Lincoln ⓘ |
| spouse |
Elizabeth Humphreys Todd
ⓘ
Robert Smith Todd ⓘ |
| stepchild | Mary Todd Lincoln ⓘ |
| stepmother | Elizabeth Humphreys Todd ⓘ |
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: Elizabeth Humphreys Todd Description of subject: Elizabeth Humphreys Todd was the stepmother of Mary Todd Lincoln, the future First Lady of the United States.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Elizabeth Humphreys Todd
subject linked to:
Elizabeth Humphreys Todd
subject linked to:
Elizabeth Humphreys Todd