Ellen Lewis Herndon
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Ellen Lewis Herndon was the wife of U.S. President Chester A. Arthur and served as First Lady in a social and symbolic capacity despite dying before he took office.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ellen Lewis Herndon canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5152769 — 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: Ellen Lewis Herndon Context triple: [Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur, birthName, Ellen Lewis Herndon]
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A.
Mary Maxcy Herndon
Mary Maxcy Herndon was the wife of American lawyer and Abraham Lincoln’s law partner William H. Herndon.
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B.
Eliza C. Morgan Hendricks
Eliza C. Morgan Hendricks was the wife of U.S. Vice President Thomas A. Hendricks and an American political hostess active in 19th-century public life.
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C.
Sarah Pierpont Edwards
Sarah Pierpont Edwards was an 18th-century American religious figure and diarist known for her deep piety, influential role in the First Great Awakening, and partnership in ministry with theologian Jonathan Edwards.
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D.
Mary Jennings
Mary Jennings was the first wife of American folk singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie.
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E.
Julia Agnes Washington Bond
Julia Agnes Washington Bond was the mother of civil rights leader Julian Bond and a significant figure in his family’s African American intellectual and activist heritage.
- 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: Ellen Lewis Herndon Target entity description: Ellen Lewis Herndon was the wife of U.S. President Chester A. Arthur and served as First Lady in a social and symbolic capacity despite dying before he took office.
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A.
Mary Maxcy Herndon
Mary Maxcy Herndon was the wife of American lawyer and Abraham Lincoln’s law partner William H. Herndon.
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B.
Eliza C. Morgan Hendricks
Eliza C. Morgan Hendricks was the wife of U.S. Vice President Thomas A. Hendricks and an American political hostess active in 19th-century public life.
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C.
Sarah Pierpont Edwards
Sarah Pierpont Edwards was an 18th-century American religious figure and diarist known for her deep piety, influential role in the First Great Awakening, and partnership in ministry with theologian Jonathan Edwards.
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D.
Mary Tabb Bolling
Mary Tabb Bolling was a 19th-century American woman of the Virginia gentry, best known as the wife of Confederate cavalry general and planter William Henry Fitzhugh Lee, the second son of Robert E. Lee.
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E.
Mary Jennings
Mary Jennings was the first wife of American folk singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
First Lady of the United States
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Republican Party through her husband ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
Albany Rural Cemetery
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Menands, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | pneumonia ⓘ |
| child |
Chester Alan Arthur II
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ellen Herndon Arthur NERFINISHED ⓘ William Lewis Herndon Arthur NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1837-08-30 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1880-01-12 ⓘ |
| deathBeforeSpouseTookOfficeAs | President of the United States ⓘ |
| educatedAt | boarding schools in Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | American of Virginian background ⓘ |
| familyName | Herndon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | William Lewis Herndon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Ellen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRole | political spouse ⓘ |
| heritage | Virginian ⓘ |
| knownFor | musical talent as a singer ⓘ |
| livedDuring | 19th century ⓘ |
| marriageDate | 1859-10-25 ⓘ |
| memberOf | choir of St. John’s Episcopal Church, Washington, D.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| middleName | Lewis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Frances Elizabeth Hansborough NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Ellen Lewis Herndon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent | death occurred less than two years before Chester A. Arthur became president ⓘ |
| notableFor |
served as First Lady in a social and symbolic capacity posthumously
ⓘ
wife of U.S. President Chester A. Arthur ⓘ |
| occupation | socialite ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Culpeper Court House, Virginia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Culpeper, Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
New York City
ⓘ
New York, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
First Lady of the United States
ⓘ
Second Lady of the United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededByInRole | Lucy Webb Hayes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Episcopal Church ⓘ |
| residence |
New York City
ⓘ
Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse |
Chester A. Arthur
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Chester Alan Arthur NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouseHeldOffice |
21st President of the United States
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Vice President of the United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| succeededByInRole | Frances Folsom Cleveland 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: Ellen Lewis Herndon Description of subject: Ellen Lewis Herndon was the wife of U.S. President Chester A. Arthur and served as First Lady in a social and symbolic capacity despite dying before he took office.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.