Hemings
E473537
African American family
African American surname
American surname
enslaved family
enslaved man
enslaved woman
family name
Hemings is a historically significant American family name most closely associated with the enslaved Hemings family at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello plantation.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hemings canonical | 9 |
| Hemings family | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4849131 — 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: Hemings Context triple: [Robert Hemings, familyName, Hemings]
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A.
Custis
Custis is a historic Virginia family name most notably associated with the stepchildren and descendants of George Washington through his wife Martha Dandridge Custis.
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B.
Varina
Varina is a historic magisterial district and community in eastern Henrico County, Virginia, known for its early colonial settlements along the James River.
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C.
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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D.
Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis
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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E.
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.
- 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: Hemings Target entity description: Hemings is a historically significant American family name most closely associated with the enslaved Hemings family at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello plantation.
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A.
Custis
Custis is a historic Virginia family name most notably associated with the stepchildren and descendants of George Washington through his wife Martha Dandridge Custis.
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B.
Varina
Varina is a historic magisterial district and community in eastern Henrico County, Virginia, known for its early colonial settlements along the James River.
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C.
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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D.
Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
African American family
ⓘ
African American surname ⓘ American surname ⓘ enslaved family ⓘ enslaved man ⓘ enslaved man ⓘ enslaved man ⓘ enslaved man ⓘ enslaved woman ⓘ enslaved woman ⓘ enslaved woman ⓘ family name ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Monticello plantation
ⓘ
linked to:
Monticello (plantation)
Thomas Jefferson ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| employedAt | Monticello ⓘ |
| enslavedAt | Monticello ⓘ |
| enslavedBy | Thomas Jefferson ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | African descent ⓘ |
| familyName | Hemings ⓘ |
| hasNotableFamily | Hemings family of Monticello ⓘ |
| historicalAssociation |
American slavery
ⓘ
Monticello plantation ⓘ
linked to:
Monticello (plantation)
Thomas Jefferson ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
18th century
ⓘ
19th century ⓘ |
| knownFor |
association with Monticello plantation
ⓘ
connection to Thomas Jefferson ⓘ descendants of Elizabeth Hemings ⓘ role in American slavery history ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Virginia ⓘ |
| notableMember |
Beverly Hemings
ⓘ
Elizabeth Hemings ⓘ
linked to:
Betty Hemings
Eston Hemings ⓘ Harriet Hemings ⓘ John Hemings ⓘ Madison Hemings ⓘ Sally Hemings ⓘ |
| role | matriarch of the Hemings family at Monticello ⓘ |
| usedIn |
English-speaking countries
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
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: Hemings Description of subject: Hemings is a historically significant American family name most closely associated with the enslaved Hemings family at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello plantation.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Thomas Jefferson’s enslaved servant Robert Hemings
subject linked to:
Thomas Jefferson’s enslaved servant Robert Hemings
linked to: Hemings
subject linked to:
Hemings
linked to: Hemings
subject linked to:
Sarah
linked to: Hemings
linked to: Hemings
subject linked to:
Sally