Samuel Todd
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Samuel Todd was a 19th-century American figure known primarily as a member of the prominent Todd family of Kentucky, which included his sister Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of President Abraham Lincoln.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Samuel Todd canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4704681 — 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: Samuel Todd Context triple: [Robert Smith Todd, fatherOf, Samuel Todd]
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A.
Samuel Anderson
Samuel Anderson is a British actor best known for his work in television and theatre, including notable roles in series like "Doctor Who" and "Emmerdale."
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B.
Samuel Greg
Samuel Greg was an 18th–19th century British industrialist and prominent cotton manufacturer, best known as a leading figure of the early Industrial Revolution.
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C.
Samuel McIntire
Samuel McIntire was an influential early American architect and woodcarver from Salem, Massachusetts, renowned for his Federal-style designs and decorative craftsmanship.
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D.
Samuel Holden
Samuel Holden was an influential 18th-century British politician and merchant whose prominence and philanthropy led to institutions such as Holden Chapel being named in his honor.
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E.
Samuel Reynolds
Samuel Reynolds was the founder of St Edward's School in Oxford, an English educational institution established in the 19th century.
- 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: Samuel Todd Target entity description: Samuel Todd was a 19th-century American figure known primarily as a member of the prominent Todd family of Kentucky, which included his sister Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of President Abraham Lincoln.
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A.
Samuel Anderson
Samuel Anderson is a British actor best known for his work in television and theatre, including notable roles in series like "Doctor Who" and "Emmerdale."
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B.
Samuel Greg
Samuel Greg was an 18th–19th century British industrialist and prominent cotton manufacturer, best known as a leading figure of the early Industrial Revolution.
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C.
Samuel McIntire
Samuel McIntire was an influential early American architect and woodcarver from Salem, Massachusetts, renowned for his Federal-style designs and decorative craftsmanship.
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D.
Samuel Holden
Samuel Holden was an influential 18th-century British politician and merchant whose prominence and philanthropy led to institutions such as Holden Chapel being named in his honor.
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E.
Samuel Reynolds
Samuel Reynolds was the founder of St Edward's School in Oxford, an English educational institution established in the 19th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (14)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 19th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | American ⓘ |
| familyName | Todd ⓘ |
| givenName | Samuel ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Todd family ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a member of the Todd family of Kentucky
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being the brother of Mary Todd Lincoln ⓘ |
| placeOfOrigin | Kentucky ⓘ |
| relative |
Abraham Lincoln
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Mary Todd Lincoln ⓘ |
| sibling | Mary Todd Lincoln ⓘ |
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: Samuel Todd Description of subject: Samuel Todd was a 19th-century American figure known primarily as a member of the prominent Todd family of Kentucky, which included his sister Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of President Abraham Lincoln.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.