Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis
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Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis was an American plantation mistress and prominent member of the Virginia gentry, known for her philanthropy, religious work, and role as the mother-in-law of Robert E. Lee.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis canonical | 3 |
| Mary Anna Randolph Custis | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2168166 — 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 Lee Fitzhugh Custis Context triple: [George Washington Parke Custis, spouse, Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis]
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Elizabeth Parke Custis
Elizabeth Parke Custis was one of Martha Washington’s four step-granddaughters, a prominent member of the Virginia gentry in the early American republic.
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Martha Parke Custis
Martha Parke Custis was the daughter of Martha Washington and stepdaughter of George Washington, known as a member of the prominent Custis-Washington family in colonial Virginia.
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C.
Eleanor Parke Custis
Eleanor Parke Custis was one of the step-granddaughters of George Washington, known for being raised at Mount Vernon and later remembered as a prominent figure in early American society.
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D.
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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E.
Martha Jefferson Randolph
Martha Jefferson Randolph was the eldest daughter of Thomas Jefferson and a prominent early American woman who served as White House hostess during his presidency.
- 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 Lee Fitzhugh Custis Target entity description: Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis was an American plantation mistress and prominent member of the Virginia gentry, known for her philanthropy, religious work, and role as the mother-in-law of Robert E. Lee.
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Elizabeth Parke Custis
Elizabeth Parke Custis was one of Martha Washington’s four step-granddaughters, a prominent member of the Virginia gentry in the early American republic.
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B.
Martha Parke Custis
Martha Parke Custis was the daughter of Martha Washington and stepdaughter of George Washington, known as a member of the prominent Custis-Washington family in colonial Virginia.
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C.
Eleanor Parke Custis
Eleanor Parke Custis was one of the step-granddaughters of George Washington, known for being raised at Mount Vernon and later remembered as a prominent figure in early American society.
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D.
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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E.
Martha Jefferson Randolph
Martha Jefferson Randolph was the eldest daughter of Thomas Jefferson and a prominent early American woman who served as White House hostess during his presidency.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
How these facts were elicited
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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 Lee Fitzhugh Custis Description of subject: Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis was an American plantation mistress and prominent member of the Virginia gentry, known for her philanthropy, religious work, and role as the mother-in-law of Robert E. Lee.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis