Sarah Dabney Strother
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Sarah Dabney Strother was an American woman of the late 18th and early 19th centuries best known as the mother of Zachary Taylor, the 12th president of the United States.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sarah Dabney Strother canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3089291 — 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 Dabney Strother Context triple: [Zachary Taylor, mother, Sarah Dabney Strother]
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A.
Elizabeth McCord
Elizabeth McCord is the principled and pragmatic U.S. Secretary of State at the center of the political drama series "Madam Secretary," known for her diplomatic skill and moral conviction.
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B.
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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C.
Mary Frances Reynolds
Mary Frances Reynolds, better known as Debbie Reynolds, was an American actress, singer, and dancer famed for her roles in classic Hollywood films such as "Singin' in the Rain."
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D.
Elizabeth Wendell
Elizabeth Wendell was a colonial-era New England woman best known as the mother of Dorothy Quincy, who became the wife of American Founding Father John Hancock.
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E.
Mary Jennings
Mary Jennings was the first wife of American folk singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie.
- 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 Dabney Strother Target entity description: Sarah Dabney Strother was an American woman of the late 18th and early 19th centuries best known as the mother of Zachary Taylor, the 12th president of the United States.
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A.
Elizabeth McCord
Elizabeth McCord is the principled and pragmatic U.S. Secretary of State at the center of the political drama series "Madam Secretary," known for her diplomatic skill and moral conviction.
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B.
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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C.
Mary Frances Reynolds
Mary Frances Reynolds, better known as Debbie Reynolds, was an American actress, singer, and dancer famed for her roles in classic Hollywood films such as "Singin' in the Rain."
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D.
Elizabeth Wendell
Elizabeth Wendell was a colonial-era New England woman best known as the mother of Dorothy Quincy, who became the wife of American Founding Father John Hancock.
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E.
Mary Jennings
Mary Jennings was the first wife of American folk singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (23)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American woman
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human ⓘ |
| birthName | Sarah Dabney Strother ⓘ |
| child | Zachary Taylor ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | American of English descent ⓘ |
| familyName | Strother ⓘ |
| givenName | Sarah ⓘ |
| hasOccupation | planter's wife ⓘ |
| hasRole | mother of a U.S. president ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the mother of Zachary Taylor ⓘ |
| notableRelative |
Zachary Taylor, 12th president of the United States
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linked to:
Zachary Taylor
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| positionHeld | First Lady of a Kentucky plantation household ⓘ |
| relative |
Richard Taylor
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Zachary Taylor ⓘ |
| residence |
Kentucky
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Virginia ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Richard Taylor ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
early 19th century
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late 18th 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 Dabney Strother Description of subject: Sarah Dabney Strother was an American woman of the late 18th and early 19th centuries best known as the mother of Zachary Taylor, the 12th president of the United States.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.