Martha Jefferson Randolph
E176799
Martha Jefferson Randolph was the eldest daughter of Thomas Jefferson and a prominent early American woman who served as White House hostess during his presidency.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Martha Jefferson Randolph canonical | 13 |
| Martha Jefferson | 2 |
| Martha Jefferson Randolph (acting) | 1 |
| Patsy Jefferson | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1509314 — 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: Martha Jefferson Randolph Context triple: [Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson, child, Martha Jefferson Randolph]
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A.
Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson
Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson was an American planter's daughter who became the wife of future U.S. President Thomas Jefferson and served as the mistress of Monticello until her death in 1782.
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B.
Matilda Ludwell Lee
Matilda Ludwell Lee was an American heiress and member of the prominent Lee family of Virginia in the late 18th century.
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C.
Martha Eppes Wayles
Martha Eppes Wayles was a colonial Virginia woman of the planter elite and the mother of Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson, the wife of U.S. President Thomas Jefferson.
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D.
Varina Howell Davis
Varina Howell Davis was an American writer and the second wife of Jefferson Davis, serving as First Lady of the Confederate States during the American Civil War.
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E.
Lucy Elizabeth Jefferson
Lucy Elizabeth Jefferson was the daughter of Thomas Jefferson and Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson who died in childhood and is one of the lesser-known members of the Jefferson family.
- 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: Martha Jefferson Randolph Target entity description: Martha Jefferson Randolph was the eldest daughter of Thomas Jefferson and a prominent early American woman who served as White House hostess during his presidency.
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A.
Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson
Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson was an American planter's daughter who became the wife of future U.S. President Thomas Jefferson and served as the mistress of Monticello until her death in 1782.
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B.
Matilda Ludwell Lee
Matilda Ludwell Lee was an American heiress and member of the prominent Lee family of Virginia in the late 18th century.
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C.
Martha Eppes Wayles
Martha Eppes Wayles was a colonial Virginia woman of the planter elite and the mother of Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson, the wife of U.S. President Thomas Jefferson.
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D.
Varina Howell Davis
Varina Howell Davis was an American writer and the second wife of Jefferson Davis, serving as First Lady of the Confederate States during the American Civil War.
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E.
Lucy Elizabeth Jefferson
Lucy Elizabeth Jefferson was the daughter of Thomas Jefferson and Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson who died in childhood and is one of the lesser-known members of the Jefferson family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Martha Jefferson Randolph Description of subject: Martha Jefferson Randolph was the eldest daughter of Thomas Jefferson and a prominent early American woman who served as White House hostess during his presidency.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Martha Jefferson Randolph (acting)
this entity surface form:
Martha Jefferson
this entity surface form:
Patsy Jefferson
this entity surface form:
Martha Jefferson
subject surface form:
Thomas Mann Randolph Jr.