Dolley Madison
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Dolley Madison was an influential First Lady of the United States, renowned for her social leadership in Washington, D.C., and for saving important artifacts from the White House during the War of 1812.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dolley Madison canonical | 17 |
| Dolley Payne Todd Madison | 3 |
| Dolley | 1 |
| Dolley Payne | 1 |
| First Lady of the United States Dolley Madison | 1 |
| life of Dolley Madison | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T491248 — 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: Dolley Madison Context triple: [James Madison, spouse, Dolley Madison]
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A.
Martha Washington
Martha Washington was the first First Lady of the United States, a wealthy widow who managed large estates and played a key role as a social and political hostess during George Washington’s leadership.
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B.
Harriet Lane
Harriet Lane was the niece and acting First Lady of U.S. President James Buchanan, remembered for her influential role in Washington society and advocacy for the arts and children’s health.
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C.
Louisa Catherine Adams
Louisa Catherine Adams was the First Lady of the United States from 1825 to 1829 as the wife of President John Quincy Adams and the only First Lady born outside of the present-day United States.
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D.
Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams was an influential early American First Lady and prolific letter writer whose advocacy for women's rights and education made her a pioneering figure in U.S. history.
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E.
Varina Howell Davis
Varina Howell Davis was an American writer and the second wife of Jefferson Davis, serving as First Lady of the Confederate States during the American Civil War.
- 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: Dolley Madison Target entity description: Dolley Madison was an influential First Lady of the United States, renowned for her social leadership in Washington, D.C., and for saving important artifacts from the White House during the War of 1812.
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A.
Martha Washington
Martha Washington was the first First Lady of the United States, a wealthy widow who managed large estates and played a key role as a social and political hostess during George Washington’s leadership.
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B.
Harriet Lane
Harriet Lane was the niece and acting First Lady of U.S. President James Buchanan, remembered for her influential role in Washington society and advocacy for the arts and children’s health.
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C.
Louisa Catherine Adams
Louisa Catherine Adams was the First Lady of the United States from 1825 to 1829 as the wife of President John Quincy Adams and the only First Lady born outside of the present-day United States.
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D.
Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams was an influential early American First Lady and prolific letter writer whose advocacy for women's rights and education made her a pioneering figure in U.S. history.
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E.
Varina Howell Davis
Varina Howell Davis was an American writer and the second wife of Jefferson Davis, serving as First Lady of the Confederate States during the American Civil War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Dolley Madison Description of subject: Dolley Madison was an influential First Lady of the United States, renowned for her social leadership in Washington, D.C., and for saving important artifacts from the White House during the War of 1812.
Referenced by (24)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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