Madison Hemings
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Madison Hemings was the son of Sally Hemings and, by most historical accounts, Thomas Jefferson, known for his 1873 memoir detailing life at Monticello and his family’s lineage.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Madison Hemings canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7588258 — 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: Madison Hemings Context triple: [Sally Hemings, child, Madison Hemings]
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A.
Beverly Hemings
Beverly Hemings was one of the mixed-race children of Sally Hemings, historically associated with Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello plantation and the broader Hemings-Jefferson family legacy.
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B.
Sally Hemings
Sally Hemings was an enslaved woman of mixed race owned by Thomas Jefferson, widely believed to have had a long-term intimate relationship and several children with him at Monticello.
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C.
Harriet Hemings
Harriet Hemings was the mixed-race daughter of enslaved woman Sally Hemings at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello plantation, who later left Monticello and is believed to have passed into white society.
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D.
Betty Hemings
Betty Hemings was an enslaved woman at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello plantation and the matriarch of the influential Hemings family, whose descendants played a significant role in American history.
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E.
Hemings
Hemings is a historically significant American family name most closely associated with the enslaved Hemings family at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello plantation.
- 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: Madison Hemings Target entity description: Madison Hemings was the son of Sally Hemings and, by most historical accounts, Thomas Jefferson, known for his 1873 memoir detailing life at Monticello and his family’s lineage.
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A.
Beverly Hemings
Beverly Hemings was one of the mixed-race children of Sally Hemings, historically associated with Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello plantation and the broader Hemings-Jefferson family legacy.
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B.
Sally Hemings
Sally Hemings was an enslaved woman of mixed race owned by Thomas Jefferson, widely believed to have had a long-term intimate relationship and several children with him at Monticello.
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C.
Harriet Hemings
Harriet Hemings was the mixed-race daughter of enslaved woman Sally Hemings at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello plantation, who later left Monticello and is believed to have passed into white society.
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D.
Betty Hemings
Betty Hemings was an enslaved woman at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello plantation and the matriarch of the influential Hemings family, whose descendants played a significant role in American history.
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E.
Hemings
Hemings is a historically significant American family name most closely associated with the enslaved Hemings family at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello plantation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
carpenter
ⓘ
memoirist ⓘ person ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Hemings family
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jefferson–Hemings controversy NERFINISHED ⓘ Monticello plantation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Ohio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countryOfBirth | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1805-01-19 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1877-11-28 ⓘ |
| describedIn | Pike County Republican, March 13, 1873 ⓘ |
| enslavedAt | Monticello NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| enslavedBy | Thomas Jefferson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Black Americans
ⓘ
surface form:
African American
|
| familyName | Hemings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Thomas Jefferson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Madison NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAncestor | Elizabeth Hemings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEthnicBackground |
African
ⓘ
European ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mother | Sally Hemings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the son of Sally Hemings
ⓘ
being widely regarded as a son of Thomas Jefferson ⓘ documenting the Hemings family lineage ⓘ providing a first-person account of life at Monticello ⓘ |
| notableWork | 1873 memoir published in the Pike County Republican ⓘ |
| occupation |
carpenter
ⓘ
farmer ⓘ memoirist ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Albemarle County, Virginia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Monticello NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Pike County, Ohio
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ross County, Ohio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| residence |
Chillicothe, Ohio
NERFINISHED
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Monticello NERFINISHED ⓘ Pike County, Ohio NERFINISHED ⓘ Ross County, Ohio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sibling |
Beverly Hemings
NERFINISHED
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Eston Hemings NERFINISHED ⓘ Harriet Hemings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectOf | historical scholarship on Jefferson–Hemings descendants ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Madison Hemings Description of subject: Madison Hemings was the son of Sally Hemings and, by most historical accounts, Thomas Jefferson, known for his 1873 memoir detailing life at Monticello and his family’s lineage.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.