Thomas Lincoln (paternal grandfather)
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Thomas Lincoln was the paternal grandfather of Tad Lincoln and a member of the extended family of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Thomas Lincoln (paternal grandfather) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4812946 — 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: Thomas Lincoln (paternal grandfather) Context triple: [Tad Lincoln, relative, Thomas Lincoln (paternal grandfather)]
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A.
Edward Baker Lincoln
Edward Baker Lincoln was the second son of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, remembered for his early death in childhood before his father’s presidency.
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B.
Abraham Lincoln II
Abraham Lincoln II, nicknamed "Jack," was the grandson of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and the son of Robert Todd Lincoln, known for his promising youth and untimely death as a teenager.
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C.
Jesse Root Grant
Jesse Root Grant was an American tanner and businessman best known as the father of U.S. Civil War general and 18th President Ulysses S. Grant.
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D.
Thomas "Tad" Lincoln
Thomas "Tad" Lincoln was the youngest and famously mischievous son of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, remembered for his close, affectionate relationship with his father during the Civil War years.
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E.
Lincoln family
The Lincoln family is a prominent American political family best known for including Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, and his wife Mary Todd Lincoln.
- 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: Thomas Lincoln (paternal grandfather) Target entity description: Thomas Lincoln was the paternal grandfather of Tad Lincoln and a member of the extended family of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
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A.
Edward Baker Lincoln
Edward Baker Lincoln was the second son of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, remembered for his early death in childhood before his father’s presidency.
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B.
Abraham Lincoln II
Abraham Lincoln II, nicknamed "Jack," was the grandson of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and the son of Robert Todd Lincoln, known for his promising youth and untimely death as a teenager.
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C.
Jesse Root Grant
Jesse Root Grant was an American tanner and businessman best known as the father of U.S. Civil War general and 18th President Ulysses S. Grant.
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D.
Thomas "Tad" Lincoln
Thomas "Tad" Lincoln was the youngest and famously mischievous son of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, remembered for his close, affectionate relationship with his father during the Civil War years.
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E.
Lincoln family
The Lincoln family is a prominent American political family best known for including Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, and his wife Mary Todd Lincoln.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (8)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| hasRole |
member of the extended family of Abraham Lincoln
ⓘ
paternal grandfather of Tad Lincoln ⓘ |
| name | Thomas Lincoln ⓘ |
| relative |
Abraham Lincoln
ⓘ
Tad Lincoln ⓘ
linked to:
Thomas "Tad" Lincoln
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| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: Thomas Lincoln (paternal grandfather) Description of subject: Thomas Lincoln was the paternal grandfather of Tad Lincoln and a member of the extended family of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.