Rebecca Tayloe
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Rebecca Tayloe was a Virginia plantation heiress who became the wife of American Founding Father and Declaration of Independence signer Francis Lightfoot Lee.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Rebecca Tayloe canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4776728 — 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: Rebecca Tayloe Context triple: [Francis Lightfoot Lee, spouse, Rebecca Tayloe]
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A.
Rebecca Prescott
Rebecca Prescott was the second wife of American Founding Father Roger Sherman and the mother of several of his children, connected to early U.S. political history through her marriage.
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B.
Mary Carr
Mary Carr was an American character actress of the silent and early sound film era, often cast as kindly maternal figures.
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C.
Mary Archer
Mary Archer is a British scientist and academic, known for her work in solar energy research and for being married to novelist and former politician Jeffrey Archer.
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D.
Marion Fairfax
Marion Fairfax was an early 20th-century American screenwriter and playwright known for her work on major silent films and adaptations.
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E.
Lucy Taliaferro
Lucy Taliaferro was a member of the prominent Virginia Carter–Lee family, connected to early American planter and political society.
- 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: Rebecca Tayloe Target entity description: Rebecca Tayloe was a Virginia plantation heiress who became the wife of American Founding Father and Declaration of Independence signer Francis Lightfoot Lee.
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A.
Rebecca Prescott
Rebecca Prescott was the second wife of American Founding Father Roger Sherman and the mother of several of his children, connected to early U.S. political history through her marriage.
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B.
Mary Carr
Mary Carr was an American character actress of the silent and early sound film era, often cast as kindly maternal figures.
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C.
Mary Archer
Mary Archer is a British scientist and academic, known for her work in solar energy research and for being married to novelist and former politician Jeffrey Archer.
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D.
Marion Fairfax
Marion Fairfax was an early 20th-century American screenwriter and playwright known for her work on major silent films and adaptations.
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E.
Lucy Taliaferro
Lucy Taliaferro was a member of the prominent Virginia Carter–Lee family, connected to early American planter and political society.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Virginia planter class
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heiress ⓘ human ⓘ |
| associatedWithLocation |
Northern Neck of Virginia
NERFINISHED
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Richmond County, Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Colony of Virginia
NERFINISHED
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United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English American NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| family |
Lee family of Virginia
NERFINISHED
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Tayloe family of Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | John Tayloe II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| livedDuring | American Revolutionary era NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| marriedToSignerOf | United States Declaration of Independence NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | Virginia gentry ⓘ |
| notableRelative |
Francis Lightfoot Lee
NERFINISHED
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John Tayloe III NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Henry Lee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | plantation owner ⓘ |
| partOf | Virginia colonial elite ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| propertyInheritedFrom | Tayloe family plantations NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion |
Anglicanism
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Episcopal Church (United States) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Menokin plantation
NERFINISHED
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Mount Airy plantation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| socialClass | planter aristocracy ⓘ |
| spouse | Francis Lightfoot Lee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Rebecca Tayloe Description of subject: Rebecca Tayloe was a Virginia plantation heiress who became the wife of American Founding Father and Declaration of Independence signer Francis Lightfoot Lee.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.