Mary Lincoln Beckwith
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Mary Lincoln Beckwith was a granddaughter of President Abraham Lincoln and a relatively private member of the Lincoln family known for her lifelong unmarried status and low public profile.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mary Lincoln Beckwith canonical | 5 |
| Mary Todd Lincoln Beckwith | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T844344 — 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: Mary Lincoln Beckwith Context triple: [Robert Todd Lincoln, child, Mary Lincoln Beckwith]
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A.
Mary Ann Holmes Booth
Mary Ann Holmes Booth was the wife of prominent 19th-century American actor Junius Brutus Booth and the mother of several actor sons, including presidential assassin John Wilkes Booth.
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B.
Mary Surratt
Mary Surratt was an American boardinghouse owner who became the first woman executed by the U.S. federal government for her role in the conspiracy to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln.
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C.
Mary Todd Lincoln
Mary Todd Lincoln was the First Lady of the United States during Abraham Lincoln’s presidency, known for her political influence, personal tragedies, and controversial public image during and after the Civil War.
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D.
Charles J. Guiteau
Charles J. Guiteau was an American lawyer and disgruntled office seeker best known for assassinating U.S. President James A. Garfield in 1881.
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E.
Lucy Flucker Knox
Lucy Flucker Knox was the Loyalist-born wife of American Revolutionary War General Henry Knox, noted for her steadfast support of the Patriot cause and extensive correspondence that offers insight into Revolutionary-era domestic life.
- 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: Mary Lincoln Beckwith Target entity description: Mary Lincoln Beckwith was a granddaughter of President Abraham Lincoln and a relatively private member of the Lincoln family known for her lifelong unmarried status and low public profile.
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A.
Mary Ann Holmes Booth
Mary Ann Holmes Booth was the wife of prominent 19th-century American actor Junius Brutus Booth and the mother of several actor sons, including presidential assassin John Wilkes Booth.
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B.
Mary Surratt
Mary Surratt was an American boardinghouse owner who became the first woman executed by the U.S. federal government for her role in the conspiracy to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln.
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C.
Mary Todd Lincoln
Mary Todd Lincoln was the First Lady of the United States during Abraham Lincoln’s presidency, known for her political influence, personal tragedies, and controversial public image during and after the Civil War.
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D.
Charles J. Guiteau
Charles J. Guiteau was an American lawyer and disgruntled office seeker best known for assassinating U.S. President James A. Garfield in 1881.
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E.
Lucy Flucker Knox
Lucy Flucker Knox was the Loyalist-born wife of American Revolutionary War General Henry Knox, noted for her steadfast support of the Patriot cause and extensive correspondence that offers insight into Revolutionary-era domestic life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (14)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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member of the Lincoln family ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Beckwith ⓘ |
| givenName | Mary ⓘ |
| granddaughterOf | Abraham Lincoln ⓘ |
| hasPublicProfile | low ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being a granddaughter of Abraham Lincoln
ⓘ
maintaining a private life ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | unmarried ⓘ |
| notableRelative |
Abraham Lincoln
ⓘ
Robert Todd Lincoln ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| sibling | Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith ⓘ |
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: Mary Lincoln Beckwith Description of subject: Mary Lincoln Beckwith was a granddaughter of President Abraham Lincoln and a relatively private member of the Lincoln family known for her lifelong unmarried status and low public profile.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Mary Todd Lincoln Beckwith