David Todd
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David Todd was a 19th-century American lawyer and politician from Kentucky, best known as a member of the prominent Todd family that included Mary Todd Lincoln.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Todd canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4704682 — 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: David Todd Context triple: [Robert Smith Todd, fatherOf, David Todd]
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A.
Donald Todd
Donald Todd is an American television writer and producer known for his work on series such as "This Is Us" and "Samantha Who?".
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B.
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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C.
David Dodge
David Dodge is a Canadian economist and public servant best known for serving as Governor of the Bank of Canada from 2001 to 2008.
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D.
David Dodge
David Dodge was an American novelist best known for his mid-20th-century crime and adventure novels, including the book that inspired Alfred Hitchcock’s film "To Catch a Thief."
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E.
David Duffield
David Duffield is an American billionaire entrepreneur and philanthropist best known for founding the enterprise software companies PeopleSoft and Workday.
- 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: David Todd Target entity description: David Todd was a 19th-century American lawyer and politician from Kentucky, best known as a member of the prominent Todd family that included Mary Todd Lincoln.
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A.
Donald Todd
Donald Todd is an American television writer and producer known for his work on series such as "This Is Us" and "Samantha Who?".
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B.
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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C.
David Dodge
David Dodge is a Canadian economist and public servant best known for serving as Governor of the Bank of Canada from 2001 to 2008.
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D.
David Dodge
David Dodge was an American novelist best known for his mid-20th-century crime and adventure novels, including the book that inspired Alfred Hitchcock’s film "To Catch a Thief."
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E.
David Duffield
David Duffield is an American billionaire entrepreneur and philanthropist best known for founding the enterprise software companies PeopleSoft and Workday.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (14)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
lawyer ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 19th century ⓘ |
| countryOfActivity | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| hasRelative |
David Todd
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Mary Todd Lincoln ⓘ |
| memberOf | Todd family ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a 19th-century American lawyer and politician from Kentucky
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membership in the prominent Todd family that included Mary Todd Lincoln ⓘ |
| occupation |
lawyer
ⓘ
politician ⓘ |
| placeOfOrigin | Kentucky ⓘ |
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: David Todd Description of subject: David Todd was a 19th-century American lawyer and politician from Kentucky, best known as a member of the prominent Todd family that included Mary Todd Lincoln.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
David Todd