Thomas Todd
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Thomas Todd was an early 19th-century Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court known for his service during the Marshall Court era.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Thomas Todd canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3742361 — 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 Todd Context triple: [Dartmouth College v. Woodward, hasDissentingJustice, Thomas Todd]
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A.
Jervis McEntee
Jervis McEntee was a 19th-century American landscape painter associated with the Hudson River School, known for his poetic, melancholic depictions of nature.
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B.
Wilmot Reed
Wilmot Reed is the given first and middle name of Reed Hastings, the American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and former CEO of Netflix.
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C.
Melville Tucker
Melville Tucker is a film producer best known for his work on the 1980 comedy movie "Stir Crazy."
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D.
Ralph McLane
Ralph McLane was a prominent American clarinetist best known for his tenure as principal clarinet of the Philadelphia Orchestra and his influential role as a teacher at leading music institutions.
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E.
Thomas Knowlton
Thomas Knowlton was a Continental Army officer and early American war hero, best known for leading an elite reconnaissance unit known as Knowlton's Rangers during the American Revolutionary 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: Thomas Todd Target entity description: Thomas Todd was an early 19th-century Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court known for his service during the Marshall Court era.
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A.
Jervis McEntee
Jervis McEntee was a 19th-century American landscape painter associated with the Hudson River School, known for his poetic, melancholic depictions of nature.
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B.
Wilmot Reed
Wilmot Reed is the given first and middle name of Reed Hastings, the American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and former CEO of Netflix.
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C.
Melville Tucker
Melville Tucker is a film producer best known for his work on the 1980 comedy movie "Stir Crazy."
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D.
Ralph McLane
Ralph McLane was a prominent American clarinetist best known for his tenure as principal clarinet of the Philadelphia Orchestra and his influential role as a teacher at leading music institutions.
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E.
Thomas Knowlton
Thomas Knowlton was a Continental Army officer and early American war hero, best known for leading an elite reconnaissance unit known as Knowlton's Rangers during the American Revolutionary War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
ⓘ
judge ⓘ lawyer ⓘ person ⓘ |
| appointedBy | Thomas Jefferson ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Frankfort Cemetery ⓘ |
| confirmedBy | United States Senate ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | January 23, 1765 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | February 7, 1826 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
College of William & Mary
ⓘ
Liberty Hall Academy ⓘ |
| endTime | 1826 as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| era | early 19th century ⓘ |
| familyName | Todd ⓘ |
| givenName | Thomas ⓘ |
| knownFor |
early 19th-century American jurisprudence
ⓘ
service on the U.S. Supreme Court during the Marshall Court era ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | natural causes ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Marshall Court
ⓘ
Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| notableCourt | Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| occupation |
judge
ⓘ
jurist ⓘ lawyer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | King and Queen County, Virginia ONNED1 ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Frankfort, Kentucky ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
ⓘ
chief justice of the Kentucky Court of Appeals ⓘ clerk of the Kentucky Court of Appeals ⓘ judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals ⓘ |
| practicedLawIn | Kentucky ⓘ |
| regionOfActivity |
Kentucky
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Virginia ⓘ |
| relative | Dolley Madison ⓘ |
| religion |
Presbyterian
ⓘ
surface form:
Presbyterianism
|
| residence | Kentucky ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse |
Elizabeth Harris
ⓘ
Lucy Payne Washington ⓘ |
| startTime | 1807 as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States ⓘ |
| workedUnder |
John Marshall
ⓘ
surface form:
Chief Justice John Marshall
|
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 Todd Description of subject: Thomas Todd was an early 19th-century Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court known for his service during the Marshall Court era.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.