Isaac Surratt
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Isaac Surratt was the son of Mary Surratt, who was convicted and executed for her role in the conspiracy to assassinate U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Isaac Surratt canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1126150 — 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: Isaac Surratt Context triple: [Mary Surratt, child, Isaac Surratt]
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A.
John Harrison Surratt Sr.
John Harrison Surratt Sr. was an American innkeeper and Confederate sympathizer whose family, including his wife Mary Surratt and son John Jr., became deeply entangled in the conspiracy to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln.
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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 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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D.
Mary Lincoln Beckwith
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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E.
David Herold
David Herold was an American accomplice of John Wilkes Booth who helped carry out the broader plot surrounding the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865.
- 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: Isaac Surratt Target entity description: Isaac Surratt was the son of Mary Surratt, who was convicted and executed for her role in the conspiracy to assassinate U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
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A.
John Harrison Surratt Sr.
John Harrison Surratt Sr. was an American innkeeper and Confederate sympathizer whose family, including his wife Mary Surratt and son John Jr., became deeply entangled in the conspiracy to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln.
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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 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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D.
Mary Lincoln Beckwith
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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E.
David Herold
David Herold was an American accomplice of John Wilkes Booth who helped carry out the broader plot surrounding the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical figure
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Mary Surratt’s boarding house, Washington, D.C., United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Mary Surratt boarding house
Surratt ⓘ
surface form:
Surratt family
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| child | Isaac Surratt self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicity | American ⓘ |
| familyName | Surratt ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Isaac ⓘ |
| hasLastNameInCommonWith |
John H. Surratt
ⓘ
surface form:
John Surratt
Mary Surratt ⓘ |
| historicalContext |
Abraham Lincoln assassination
ⓘ
American Civil War ⓘ
surface form:
American Civil War era
|
| languageOfUse | English ⓘ |
| mother | Mary Surratt ⓘ |
| nameInEnglish | Isaac Surratt self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the son of Mary Surratt
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familial connection to the Abraham Lincoln assassination conspiracy ⓘ |
| placeOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| relative |
Anna Surratt
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John H. Surratt ⓘ
surface form:
John Surratt
Mary Surratt ⓘ |
| sibling |
John H. Surratt
ⓘ
surface form:
John Surratt
|
| timePeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
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: Isaac Surratt Description of subject: Isaac Surratt was the son of Mary Surratt, who was convicted and executed for her role in the conspiracy to assassinate U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Mary Surratt