George Washington Parke Custis
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George Washington Parke Custis was an American plantation owner, writer, and orator best known as the step-grandson of George and Martha Washington and the builder of Arlington House, later Arlington National Cemetery.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| George Washington Parke Custis canonical | 19 |
| Custis | 1 |
| Daniel Parke Custis | 1 |
| George Washington Custis Lee | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T332198 — 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: George Washington Parke Custis Context triple: [Martha Washington, stepChild, George Washington Parke Custis]
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A.
John Parke Custis
John Parke Custis was the son of Martha Washington and stepson of George Washington, known primarily as a member of the prominent Custis-Washington family in colonial Virginia.
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B.
Mary Anna Custis Lee
Mary Anna Custis Lee was the wife of Confederate General Robert E. Lee and the great-granddaughter of Martha Washington, known as a prominent 19th-century Virginia aristocrat and plantation mistress.
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C.
Henry Lee III
Henry Lee III, also known as "Light-Horse Harry" Lee, was an American Revolutionary War cavalry officer, early U.S. politician, and the ninth Governor of Virginia.
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D.
Henry Winter Davis
Henry Winter Davis was a prominent 19th-century American politician and congressman from Maryland known for his strong anti-slavery stance and leadership within the Radical Republican faction during the Civil War.
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E.
Elizabeth Virginia Wallace
Elizabeth Virginia Wallace, better known as Bess Truman, was the First Lady of the United States from 1945 to 1953 as the wife of President Harry S. Truman.
- 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: George Washington Parke Custis Target entity description: George Washington Parke Custis was an American plantation owner, writer, and orator best known as the step-grandson of George and Martha Washington and the builder of Arlington House, later Arlington National Cemetery.
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A.
John Parke Custis
John Parke Custis was the son of Martha Washington and stepson of George Washington, known primarily as a member of the prominent Custis-Washington family in colonial Virginia.
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B.
Mary Anna Custis Lee
Mary Anna Custis Lee was the wife of Confederate General Robert E. Lee and the great-granddaughter of Martha Washington, known as a prominent 19th-century Virginia aristocrat and plantation mistress.
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C.
Henry Lee III
Henry Lee III, also known as "Light-Horse Harry" Lee, was an American Revolutionary War cavalry officer, early U.S. politician, and the ninth Governor of Virginia.
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D.
Henry Winter Davis
Henry Winter Davis was a prominent 19th-century American politician and congressman from Maryland known for his strong anti-slavery stance and leadership within the Radical Republican faction during the Civil War.
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E.
Elizabeth Virginia Wallace
Elizabeth Virginia Wallace, better known as Bess Truman, was the First Lady of the United States from 1945 to 1953 as the wife of President Harry S. Truman.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: George Washington Parke Custis Description of subject: George Washington Parke Custis was an American plantation owner, writer, and orator best known as the step-grandson of George and Martha Washington and the builder of Arlington House, later Arlington National Cemetery.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Custis
this entity surface form:
George Washington Custis Lee
this entity surface form:
Daniel Parke Custis
Recollections and Private Memoirs of Washington
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