Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson
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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.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson canonical | 24 |
| Martha Jefferson | 1 |
| Martha Wayles | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T89776 — 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 Wayles Skelton Jefferson Context triple: [Thomas Jefferson, spouse, Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson]
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Martha Washington
Martha Washington was the first First Lady of the United States, a wealthy widow who managed large estates and played a key role as a social and political hostess during George Washington’s leadership.
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Mary Anna Custis Lee
Mary Anna Custis Lee was the wife of Confederate General Robert E. Lee and the great-granddaughter of Martha Washington, known as a prominent 19th-century Virginia aristocrat and plantation mistress.
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C.
Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams was an influential early American First Lady and prolific letter writer whose advocacy for women's rights and education made her a pioneering figure in U.S. history.
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D.
Louisa Catherine Adams
Louisa Catherine Adams was the First Lady of the United States from 1825 to 1829 as the wife of President John Quincy Adams and the only First Lady born outside of the present-day United States.
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E.
Henry Middleton
Henry Middleton was an American planter and political leader from South Carolina who briefly served as a leading figure in the early stages of the American Revolution.
- 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 Wayles Skelton Jefferson Target entity description: 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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A.
Martha Washington
Martha Washington was the first First Lady of the United States, a wealthy widow who managed large estates and played a key role as a social and political hostess during George Washington’s leadership.
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B.
Mary Anna Custis Lee
Mary Anna Custis Lee was the wife of Confederate General Robert E. Lee and the great-granddaughter of Martha Washington, known as a prominent 19th-century Virginia aristocrat and plantation mistress.
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C.
Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams was an influential early American First Lady and prolific letter writer whose advocacy for women's rights and education made her a pioneering figure in U.S. history.
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D.
Louisa Catherine Adams
Louisa Catherine Adams was the First Lady of the United States from 1825 to 1829 as the wife of President John Quincy Adams and the only First Lady born outside of the present-day United States.
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E.
Henry Middleton
Henry Middleton was an American planter and political leader from South Carolina who briefly served as a leading figure in the early stages of the American Revolution.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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 Wayles Skelton Jefferson Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson
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Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson
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this entity surface form:
Martha Wayles
this entity surface form:
Martha Jefferson