Thomas Hollis Smith
E1005372
Thomas Hollis Smith was the son of Nabby Adams, the daughter of U.S. President John Adams and Abigail Adams, and thus a member of the prominent Adams family.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Thomas Hollis Smith canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12639852 — 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: Thomas Hollis Smith Context triple: [Nabby Adams, child, Thomas Hollis Smith]
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A.
George Bridgman
George Bridgman was a renowned Canadian-American artist and influential art instructor best known for his foundational books and teachings on figure drawing and anatomy.
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B.
George Leighton
George Leighton is a name shared by several notable figures, including artists, writers, and public officials, whose specific identity depends on the historical and professional context.
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C.
Horatio Parker
Horatio Parker was an American composer, organist, and influential Yale music professor known for his choral works and for teaching Charles Ives.
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D.
J. R. Whittredge
J. R. Whittredge is an editor known for working on the publication titled "The Ghost Ship."
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E.
William Pitt Eastman
William Pitt Eastman was an American businessman and railroad executive after whom the city of Eastman, Georgia, was named.
- 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: Thomas Hollis Smith Target entity description: Thomas Hollis Smith was the son of Nabby Adams, the daughter of U.S. President John Adams and Abigail Adams, and thus a member of the prominent Adams family.
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A.
George Bridgman
George Bridgman was a renowned Canadian-American artist and influential art instructor best known for his foundational books and teachings on figure drawing and anatomy.
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B.
George Leighton
George Leighton is a name shared by several notable figures, including artists, writers, and public officials, whose specific identity depends on the historical and professional context.
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C.
Horatio Parker
Horatio Parker was an American composer, organist, and influential Yale music professor known for his choral works and for teaching Charles Ives.
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D.
J. R. Whittredge
J. R. Whittredge is an editor known for working on the publication titled "The Ghost Ship."
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E.
William Pitt Eastman
William Pitt Eastman was an American businessman and railroad executive after whom the city of Eastman, Georgia, was named.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| child |
Nabby Adams
ⓘ
Nabby Adams ⓘ Thomas Hollis Smith ⓘ |
| familyName | Smith ⓘ |
| father | John Adams ⓘ |
| givenName | Thomas ⓘ |
| grandfather | John Adams ⓘ |
| grandmother |
Abigail Adams
ⓘ
linked to:
Abigail Adams Smith
|
| memberOf | Adams family ⓘ |
| middleName | Hollis ⓘ |
| mother |
Abigail Adams
ⓘ
Nabby Adams ⓘ |
| positionHeld | President of the United States ⓘ |
| spouse | Abigail Adams ⓘ |
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: Thomas Hollis Smith Description of subject: Thomas Hollis Smith was the son of Nabby Adams, the daughter of U.S. President John Adams and Abigail Adams, and thus a member of the prominent Adams family.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Thomas Hollis Smith