Thomas Law
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Thomas Law was a British-born American businessman and land speculator in early Washington, D.C., known for his marriage into George Washington’s extended family and his role in the city’s early development.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Thomas Law canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10542131 — 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 Law Context triple: [Elizabeth Parke Custis, spouse, Thomas Law]
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A.
Thomas Parris
Thomas Parris was a member of the Parris family of colonial Salem, known primarily as the brother of Elizabeth Parris, whose accusations helped spark the Salem witch trials.
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B.
Jack H. Brown
Jack H. Brown was an American business executive and longtime chairman and CEO of Stater Bros. Markets, recognized for his leadership in the grocery industry and philanthropy in education and public service.
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C.
Andrew Lawson
Andrew Lawson was a pioneering early 20th-century geologist best known for his foundational work on California’s geology and seismic activity, including identifying the San Andreas Fault.
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D.
David Huddleston
David Huddleston was an American character actor best known for his memorable supporting roles in film and television, including the title role in the cult classic comedy "The Big Lebowski."
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E.
Lewis Powell
Lewis Powell was a Confederate sympathizer and member of John Wilkes Booth’s plot who attempted to assassinate Secretary of State William H. Seward on the night Abraham Lincoln was killed.
- 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 Law Target entity description: Thomas Law was a British-born American businessman and land speculator in early Washington, D.C., known for his marriage into George Washington’s extended family and his role in the city’s early development.
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A.
Thomas Parris
Thomas Parris was a member of the Parris family of colonial Salem, known primarily as the brother of Elizabeth Parris, whose accusations helped spark the Salem witch trials.
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B.
Jack H. Brown
Jack H. Brown was an American business executive and longtime chairman and CEO of Stater Bros. Markets, recognized for his leadership in the grocery industry and philanthropy in education and public service.
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C.
Andrew Lawson
Andrew Lawson was a pioneering early 20th-century geologist best known for his foundational work on California’s geology and seismic activity, including identifying the San Andreas Fault.
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D.
David Huddleston
David Huddleston was an American character actor best known for his memorable supporting roles in film and television, including the title role in the cult classic comedy "The Big Lebowski."
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E.
Lewis Powell
Lewis Powell was a Confederate sympathizer and member of John Wilkes Booth’s plot who attempted to assassinate Secretary of State William H. Seward on the night Abraham Lincoln was killed.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British American
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businessman ⓘ land speculator ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activeIn |
early 19th century
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late 18th century ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Washington City Canal Company
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speculative development near the Capitol ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Cambridge, England ⓘ |
| birthYear | 1756 ⓘ |
| child |
Eliza Custis Law
ⓘ
other children with Elizabeth Parke Custis ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Kingdom of Great Britain
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United States of America ⓘ |
| deathYear | 1834 ⓘ |
| divorced | Elizabeth Parke Custis ⓘ |
| educatedAt | schools in England ⓘ |
| employer |
East India Company
ⓘ
linked to:
British East India Company
|
| ethnicGroup | English ⓘ |
| father | Edmund Law ⓘ |
| fatherOccupation | Bishop of Carlisle ⓘ |
| influenced | urban planning of Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being a prominent early resident of Washington, D.C.
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large-scale land speculation in the federal city ⓘ marriage into George Washington’s extended family ⓘ philanthropy in Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Washington, D.C. elite society ⓘ |
| movement | early American urban development ⓘ |
| name | Thomas Law ⓘ |
| notableWork |
early development of Washington, D.C.
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investment in Washington real estate ⓘ promotion of the Washington City Canal ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessman
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civil servant ⓘ land speculator ⓘ |
| owned | Law House (Washington, D.C.) ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| positionHeld | collector of revenue in Bihar ⓘ |
| relativeByMarriage |
George Washington
ⓘ
Martha Washington ⓘ |
| religion | Unitarianism ⓘ |
| residence |
India
ⓘ
Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| sibling |
Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough
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linked to:
Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough
|
| spouse | Elizabeth Parke Custis ⓘ |
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 Law Description of subject: Thomas Law was a British-born American businessman and land speculator in early Washington, D.C., known for his marriage into George Washington’s extended family and his role in the city’s early development.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.