John Todd Jr.
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John Todd Jr. was an American lawyer best known as the first husband of future First Lady Dolley Madison, who died during the 1793 yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| John Todd Jr. canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2832213 — 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: John Todd Jr. Context triple: [Dolley Madison, spouse, John Todd Jr.]
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A.
John Todd
John Todd was a British mathematician known for his work in numerical analysis and for helping to establish the field of computational mathematics.
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B.
John Thomas
John Thomas is an American cinematographer best known for his work on the Sex and the City television series and its film adaptations.
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C.
James Dodd
James Dodd is an actor known for his role in the fantasy superhero film "Hellboy II: The Golden Army."
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D.
John Grandy
John Grandy was a senior Royal Air Force officer who rose to become a leading commander of British fighter forces during and after the Second World War.
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E.
James Seymour
James Seymour was an American screenwriter active during Hollywood's early sound era, contributing to several notable studio films in the 1930s.
- 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: John Todd Jr. Target entity description: John Todd Jr. was an American lawyer best known as the first husband of future First Lady Dolley Madison, who died during the 1793 yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia.
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A.
John Todd
John Todd was a British mathematician known for his work in numerical analysis and for helping to establish the field of computational mathematics.
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B.
John Thomas
John Thomas is an American cinematographer best known for his work on the Sex and the City television series and its film adaptations.
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C.
James Dodd
James Dodd is an actor known for his role in the fantasy superhero film "Hellboy II: The Golden Army."
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D.
John Grandy
John Grandy was a senior Royal Air Force officer who rose to become a leading commander of British fighter forces during and after the Second World War.
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E.
James Seymour
James Seymour was an American screenwriter active during Hollywood's early sound era, contributing to several notable studio films in the 1930s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
lawyer ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | yellow fever ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | American colonists ⓘ |
| familyName | Todd ⓘ |
| givenName | John ⓘ |
| hasRelative |
Dolley Madison
ⓘ
surface form:
Dolley Payne Todd Madison
|
| mannerOfDeath | death during the 1793 yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the first husband of future First Lady Dolley Madison ⓘ |
| occupation | lawyer ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Philadelphia ⓘ |
| positionHeld | member of the bar in Philadelphia ⓘ |
| residence | Philadelphia ⓘ |
| spouse |
Dolley Madison
ⓘ
surface form:
Dolley Payne Todd Madison
|
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: John Todd Jr. Description of subject: John Todd Jr. was an American lawyer best known as the first husband of future First Lady Dolley Madison, who died during the 1793 yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.