Eliza Parker Todd
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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.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Eliza Parker Todd canonical | 4 |
| Eliza Parker Todd (maternal grandmother) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T844295 — 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: Eliza Parker Todd Context triple: [Mary Todd Lincoln, mother, Eliza Parker Todd]
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A.
Lydia Moore Parker
Lydia Moore Parker was the wife of John Parker, a prominent early American frontiersman and Texas settler.
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B.
Eliza Allen
Eliza Allen was a 19th-century American woman best known as the brief and controversial first wife of Texas statesman and military leader Sam Houston.
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C.
Elizabeth Ross
Elizabeth Ross was the wife of Robert Ross, a British officer best known for his role in the War of 1812.
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D.
Julia Floyd
Julia Floyd was the wife of British statesman Sir Robert Peel, serving as a prominent Victorian-era political hostess and member of the English gentry.
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E.
Mary Carr
Mary Carr was an American character actress of the silent and early sound film era, often cast as kindly maternal figures.
- 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: Eliza Parker Todd Target entity description: 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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A.
Lydia Moore Parker
Lydia Moore Parker was the wife of John Parker, a prominent early American frontiersman and Texas settler.
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B.
Eliza Allen
Eliza Allen was a 19th-century American woman best known as the brief and controversial first wife of Texas statesman and military leader Sam Houston.
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C.
Elizabeth Ross
Elizabeth Ross was the wife of Robert Ross, a British officer best known for his role in the War of 1812.
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D.
Julia Floyd
Julia Floyd was the wife of British statesman Sir Robert Peel, serving as a prominent Victorian-era political hostess and member of the English gentry.
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E.
Mary Carr
Mary Carr was an American character actress of the silent and early sound film era, often cast as kindly maternal figures.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American socialite
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human ⓘ |
| child |
Ann Todd Smith
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surface form:
Ann Maria Todd Smith
Elizabeth Todd Edwards ⓘ Frances Todd Wallace ⓘ Levi O. Todd NERFINISHED ⓘ Mary Todd Lincoln ⓘ Robert P. Todd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | American of English descent ⓘ |
| familyName | Todd ⓘ |
| father | Robert Parker ⓘ |
| givenName | Eliza ⓘ |
| hasOccupation | homemaker ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Kentucky society ⓘ |
| mother | Elizabeth Parker ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the mother of Mary Todd Lincoln
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role in early 19th-century Kentucky society ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Lexington, Kentucky ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Lexington, Kentucky ⓘ |
| relative | Abraham Lincoln ⓘ |
| residence | Lexington, Kentucky ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Robert Smith 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: Eliza Parker Todd Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Tad Lincoln
this entity surface form:
Eliza Parker Todd (maternal grandmother)