Thomas Lincoln
E485078
Thomas Lincoln was an American frontiersman and farmer best known as the father of President Abraham Lincoln.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Thomas Lincoln canonical | 5 |
| Thomas Lincoln Jr. | 2 |
| Thomas Lincoln Sr. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4952784 — 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: Thomas Lincoln Context triple: [Knob Creek Farm, usedBy, Thomas Lincoln]
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A.
Thomas Lincoln
Thomas "Tad" Lincoln was the youngest son of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, remembered for his spirited personality and close, affectionate relationship with his father during the Civil War.
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B.
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States, best known for leading the country through the Civil War and issuing the Emancipation Proclamation that began the process of ending slavery.
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C.
William Wallace Lincoln
William Wallace "Willie" Lincoln was the third son of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, remembered for his intelligence, charm, and his early death in the White House at age 11.
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D.
Lincoln
Lincoln is a 2012 historical drama film directed by Steven Spielberg that focuses on U.S. President Abraham Lincoln’s efforts to pass the Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery.
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E.
Lincoln
Lincoln is a masculine given name of English origin most famously associated with U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
- 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: Thomas Lincoln Target entity description: Thomas Lincoln was an American frontiersman and farmer best known as the father of President Abraham Lincoln.
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A.
Thomas Lincoln
Thomas "Tad" Lincoln was the youngest son of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, remembered for his spirited personality and close, affectionate relationship with his father during the Civil War.
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B.
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States, best known for leading the country through the Civil War and issuing the Emancipation Proclamation that began the process of ending slavery.
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C.
William Wallace Lincoln
William Wallace "Willie" Lincoln was the third son of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, remembered for his intelligence, charm, and his early death in the White House at age 11.
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D.
Lincoln
Lincoln is a luxury automobile marque of the Ford Motor Company known for its premium sedans and SUVs.
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E.
Lincoln
Lincoln is a masculine given name of English origin most famously associated with U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Thomas Lincoln Description of subject: Thomas Lincoln was an American frontiersman and farmer best known as the father of President Abraham Lincoln.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Thomas Lincoln
subject linked to:
Nancy Hanks Lincoln (paternal grandmother)
subject linked to:
Nancy Hanks Lincoln (paternal grandmother)
linked to: Thomas Lincoln
linked to: Thomas Lincoln