prominent Todd family of Kentucky
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The prominent Todd family of Kentucky was an influential 19th-century American family known for its political connections, social standing, and ties to figures such as Mary Todd Lincoln.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| prominent Todd family of Kentucky canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9203182 — 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: prominent Todd family of Kentucky Context triple: [Frances Todd Wallace, notableFamilyConnection, prominent Todd family of Kentucky]
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A.
McClung family
The McClung family is a business-owning family best known for operating Ollie’s Barbecue, a Birmingham, Alabama restaurant that became central to a landmark U.S. civil rights and public accommodations case.
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B.
Gadsden family
The Gadsden family was a prominent colonial-era family in South Carolina, influential in commerce and politics and associated with early American revolutionary leadership.
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C.
Lee family
The Lee family is a prominent American dynasty from Virginia, historically influential in politics and the military and best known for producing figures such as Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
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D.
Lee family
The Lee family is a prominent Taiwanese-American show business family that includes acclaimed filmmaker Ang Lee and his actor son Mason Lee.
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E.
Bourbon family
The Bourbon family is a prominent European royal dynasty that has ruled over several countries, including France and Spain, and produced numerous branches such as the Bourbons of the Two Sicilies.
- 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: prominent Todd family of Kentucky Target entity description: The prominent Todd family of Kentucky was an influential 19th-century American family known for its political connections, social standing, and ties to figures such as Mary Todd Lincoln.
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A.
McClung family
The McClung family is a business-owning family best known for operating Ollie’s Barbecue, a Birmingham, Alabama restaurant that became central to a landmark U.S. civil rights and public accommodations case.
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B.
Gadsden family
The Gadsden family was a prominent colonial-era family in South Carolina, influential in commerce and politics and associated with early American revolutionary leadership.
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C.
Lee family
The Lee family is a prominent American dynasty from Virginia, historically influential in politics and the military and best known for producing figures such as Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
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D.
Lee family
The Lee family is a prominent Taiwanese-American show business family that includes acclaimed filmmaker Ang Lee and his actor son Mason Lee.
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E.
Bourbon family
The Bourbon family is a prominent European royal dynasty that has ruled over several countries, including France and Spain, and produced numerous branches such as the Bourbons of the Two Sicilies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American family
ⓘ
family ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activeInCentury | 19th century ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Abraham Lincoln NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Lexington, Kentucky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centerOfActivity | Lexington, Kentucky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| ethnicOrigin | Scots-Irish American ⓘ |
| family |
prominent Todd family of Kentucky
ⓘ
prominent Todd family of Kentucky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Robert Smith Todd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasActivity |
landowning
ⓘ
law ⓘ politics ⓘ |
| hasNotableMember |
Mary Todd Lincoln
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Robert Smith Todd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
American Civil War era
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Antebellum United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influentialIn |
Kentucky politics
ⓘ
Lexington society NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
political connections
ⓘ
social standing ⓘ ties to Mary Todd Lincoln ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Kentucky ⓘ |
| notableFor |
connections to the Lincoln family
ⓘ
role in 19th-century American political life ⓘ |
| occupation |
lawyer
ⓘ
politician ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | Whig Party NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Bluegrass region of Kentucky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion |
Presbyterian
ⓘ
surface form:
Presbyterianism
|
| residence | Lexington, Kentucky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| socialClass | upper class ⓘ |
| spouse | Abraham Lincoln 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: prominent Todd family of Kentucky Description of subject: The prominent Todd family of Kentucky was an influential 19th-century American family known for its political connections, social standing, and ties to figures such as Mary Todd Lincoln.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.