Sarah Cox Todd
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Sarah Cox Todd was the wife of American fur trader and real estate magnate John Jacob Astor, one of the wealthiest individuals in early 19th-century United States history.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sarah Cox Todd canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4933302 — 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: Sarah Cox Todd Context triple: [John Jacob Astor, spouse, Sarah Cox Todd]
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A.
Eliza Parker Todd
Eliza Parker Todd was an American woman of early 19th-century Kentucky society best known as the mother of Mary Todd Lincoln, the future First Lady of the United States.
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B.
Anna Rice Cooke
Anna Rice Cooke was an American art collector and philanthropist from Hawaii who played a key role in developing Honolulu’s cultural and artistic institutions.
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C.
Elizabeth Griscom
Elizabeth Griscom, better known as Betsy Ross, was an American upholsterer and seamstress traditionally credited with sewing the first flag of the United States.
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D.
Mary McVicker Booth
Mary McVicker Booth was a 19th-century American actress best known for her stage career and for being the second wife of renowned tragedian Edwin Booth.
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E.
Maria Bissell Hotchkiss
Maria Bissell Hotchkiss was an American philanthropist best known for endowing and establishing the prestigious Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut.
- 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: Sarah Cox Todd Target entity description: Sarah Cox Todd was the wife of American fur trader and real estate magnate John Jacob Astor, one of the wealthiest individuals in early 19th-century United States history.
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A.
Eliza Parker Todd
Eliza Parker Todd was an American woman of early 19th-century Kentucky society best known as the mother of Mary Todd Lincoln, the future First Lady of the United States.
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B.
Anna Rice Cooke
Anna Rice Cooke was an American art collector and philanthropist from Hawaii who played a key role in developing Honolulu’s cultural and artistic institutions.
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C.
Elizabeth Griscom
Elizabeth Griscom, better known as Betsy Ross, was an American upholsterer and seamstress traditionally credited with sewing the first flag of the United States.
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D.
Mary McVicker Booth
Mary McVicker Booth was a 19th-century American actress best known for her stage career and for being the second wife of renowned tragedian Edwin Booth.
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E.
Maria Bissell Hotchkiss
Maria Bissell Hotchkiss was an American philanthropist best known for endowing and establishing the prestigious Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American fur trader
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historical figure ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ real estate magnate ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| name | Sarah Cox Todd ⓘ |
| notableAs | one of the wealthiest individuals in early 19th-century United States history ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of John Jacob Astor ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| spouse |
John Jacob Astor
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Sarah Cox Todd ⓘ |
| timePeriod | early 19th century ⓘ |
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: Sarah Cox Todd Description of subject: Sarah Cox Todd was the wife of American fur trader and real estate magnate John Jacob Astor, one of the wealthiest individuals in early 19th-century United States history.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Sarah Cox Todd