Thomas (enslaved husband)
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Thomas was the enslaved husband of Sojourner Truth, connected to her life under slavery before she became a prominent abolitionist and women's rights activist.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Thomas (enslaved husband) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7140388 — 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 (enslaved husband) Context triple: [Sojourner Truth, spouse, Thomas (enslaved husband)]
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A.
Dr. Flint
Dr. Flint is the cruel, manipulative slaveholder and primary antagonist in Harriet Jacobs’s autobiographical narrative "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl."
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B.
Marie St. Clare
Marie St. Clare is a character in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel "Uncle Tom’s Cabin," depicted as the self-absorbed and emotionally distant wife in the St. Clare household.
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C.
Phillis
Phillis was the birth name of Phillis Wheatley, the enslaved African girl who became the first published African American female poet in the United States.
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D.
Uncle Tom
Uncle Tom is the long-suffering, devoutly Christian enslaved man whose moral strength and tragic fate form the emotional and ethical core of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s anti-slavery novel.
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E.
Meredith Lynn Auld
Meredith Lynn Auld is an American author and former Miss South Dakota best known as the longtime wife of broadcast journalist Tom Brokaw.
- 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 (enslaved husband) Target entity description: Thomas was the enslaved husband of Sojourner Truth, connected to her life under slavery before she became a prominent abolitionist and women's rights activist.
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A.
Dr. Flint
Dr. Flint is the cruel, manipulative slaveholder and primary antagonist in Harriet Jacobs’s autobiographical narrative "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl."
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B.
Marie St. Clare
Marie St. Clare is a character in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel "Uncle Tom’s Cabin," depicted as the self-absorbed and emotionally distant wife in the St. Clare household.
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C.
Phillis
Phillis was the birth name of Phillis Wheatley, the enslaved African girl who became the first published African American female poet in the United States.
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D.
Uncle Tom
Uncle Tom is the long-suffering, devoutly Christian enslaved man whose moral strength and tragic fate form the emotional and ethical core of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s anti-slavery novel.
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E.
Meredith Lynn Auld
Meredith Lynn Auld is an American author and former Miss South Dakota best known as the longtime wife of broadcast journalist Tom Brokaw.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | enslaved person ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Sojourner Truth
ⓘ
slavery in the United States ⓘ |
| countryOfEnslavement | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicity | African American ⓘ |
| geographicContext |
state of New York
ⓘ
linked to:
New York State
|
| historicalContext | American slavery before abolition in New York ⓘ |
| legalStatus | enslaved ⓘ |
| lifeEvent | marriage under slavery ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| marriageContext | coerced by enslavers ⓘ |
| marriageType | enslaver-arranged union ⓘ |
| mentionedIn | accounts of Sojourner Truth’s life under slavery ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the enslaved husband of Sojourner Truth ⓘ |
| occupation | laborer ⓘ |
| partOf |
Sojourner Truth’s early life narrative
ⓘ
linked to:
Narrative of Sojourner Truth
|
| rights | lacked legal freedom ⓘ |
| spouse | Sojourner Truth ⓘ |
| spouseLaterRole |
abolitionist
ⓘ
women’s rights activist ⓘ |
| spouseLegalStatus | enslaved ⓘ |
| spouseNameAtTheTime |
Isabella (Sojourner Truth’s birth name)
ⓘ
linked to:
Sojourner Truth
|
| spouseType | enslaved husband ⓘ |
| 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: Thomas (enslaved husband) Description of subject: Thomas was the enslaved husband of Sojourner Truth, connected to her life under slavery before she became a prominent abolitionist and women's rights activist.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.