George Rogers Clark Todd
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George Rogers Clark Todd was a 19th-century American physician and Confederate army surgeon, known as the half-brother of First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| George Rogers Clark Todd canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4704680 — 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: George Rogers Clark Todd Context triple: [Robert Smith Todd, fatherOf, George Rogers Clark Todd]
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A.
Fairfax Grant
Fairfax Grant was a colonial-era land grant in the mid-Atlantic region that played a key role in shaping the historical boundary between Maryland and what is now West Virginia.
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B.
Edward Beale
Edward Beale was a 19th-century American naval officer, explorer, and frontiersman known for his surveying expeditions and contributions to the development of the American West.
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C.
Michael S. McPherson
Michael S. McPherson is an American economist and higher education leader known for his scholarship on college access and affordability and for serving in prominent academic and philanthropic roles.
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D.
William C. Maybury
William C. Maybury was an American lawyer and politician who served as mayor of Detroit in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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E.
James Wilkinson
James Wilkinson was an American soldier and politician who served as a senior officer in the U.S. Army while secretly acting as a paid agent of the Spanish Empire, making him one of the most controversial figures in early United States history.
- 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: George Rogers Clark Todd Target entity description: George Rogers Clark Todd was a 19th-century American physician and Confederate army surgeon, known as the half-brother of First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln.
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A.
Fairfax Grant
Fairfax Grant was a colonial-era land grant in the mid-Atlantic region that played a key role in shaping the historical boundary between Maryland and what is now West Virginia.
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B.
Edward Beale
Edward Beale was a 19th-century American naval officer, explorer, and frontiersman known for his surveying expeditions and contributions to the development of the American West.
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C.
Michael S. McPherson
Michael S. McPherson is an American economist and higher education leader known for his scholarship on college access and affordability and for serving in prominent academic and philanthropic roles.
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D.
William C. Maybury
William C. Maybury was an American lawyer and politician who served as mayor of Detroit in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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E.
James Wilkinson
James Wilkinson was an American soldier and politician who served as a senior officer in the U.S. Army while secretly acting as a paid agent of the Spanish Empire, making him one of the most controversial figures in early United States history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Confederate Army officer
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person ⓘ physician ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 19th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | American ⓘ |
| familyName | Todd ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
medicine
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surgery ⓘ |
| givenName | George ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| hasRelative |
Abraham Lincoln
ⓘ
Robert Smith Todd ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Confederate States Army ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a half-brother of First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln
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service as a Confederate Army surgeon during the American Civil War ⓘ |
| occupation |
Confederate Army surgeon
ⓘ
physician ⓘ surgeon ⓘ |
| participatedIn | American Civil War ⓘ |
| placeOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| relative | Mary Todd Lincoln ⓘ |
| relativeType |
brother-in-law of Abraham Lincoln
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son of Robert Smith Todd ⓘ |
| sibling | Mary Todd Lincoln ⓘ |
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: George Rogers Clark Todd Description of subject: George Rogers Clark Todd was a 19th-century American physician and Confederate army surgeon, known as the half-brother of First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.