John Todd
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John Todd is a prominent member of the Todd family, recognized for his significant role and influence within this historically notable lineage.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| John Todd canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4792491 — 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: John Todd Context triple: [Todd family, notableMember, John Todd]
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A.
John Todd
John Todd was a British mathematician known for his work in numerical analysis and for helping to establish the field of computational mathematics.
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B.
Donald Todd
Donald Todd is an American television writer and producer known for his work on series such as "This Is Us" and "Samantha Who?".
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C.
John Todd Jr.
John Todd Jr. was an American lawyer best known as the first husband of future First Lady Dolley Madison, who died during the 1793 yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia.
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D.
David Todd
David Todd was a 19th-century American lawyer and politician from Kentucky, best known as a member of the prominent Todd family that included Mary Todd Lincoln.
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E.
John Dolman
John Dolman was an English clergyman and benefactor of the late 16th century best known for establishing Pocklington School in Yorkshire.
- 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: John Todd Target entity description: John Todd is a prominent member of the Todd family, recognized for his significant role and influence within this historically notable lineage.
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A.
John Todd
John Todd was a British mathematician known for his work in numerical analysis and for helping to establish the field of computational mathematics.
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B.
Donald Todd
Donald Todd is an American television writer and producer known for his work on series such as "This Is Us" and "Samantha Who?".
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C.
John Todd Jr.
John Todd Jr. was an American lawyer best known as the first husband of future First Lady Dolley Madison, who died during the 1793 yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia.
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D.
David Todd
David Todd was a 19th-century American lawyer and politician from Kentucky, best known as a member of the prominent Todd family that included Mary Todd Lincoln.
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E.
John Dolman
John Dolman was an English clergyman and benefactor of the late 16th century best known for establishing Pocklington School in Yorkshire.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| familyName | Todd family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | John NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLineage | Todd family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotability | prominent member of the Todd family ⓘ |
| hasRole | influential figure within the Todd family ⓘ |
| hasSurname | Todd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isAssociatedWith | historically notable Todd family ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Todd family lineage NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isRecognizedFor |
influence within the Todd family
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significant role within the Todd family ⓘ |
| memberOf | Todd family 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: John Todd Description of subject: John Todd is a prominent member of the Todd family, recognized for his significant role and influence within this historically notable lineage.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.