Lydia McLane Johnston
E575314
Lydia McLane Johnston was the wife of Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston and a member of the prominent McLane family of Baltimore.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lydia McLane Johnston canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6208715 — 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: Lydia McLane Johnston Context triple: [Joseph E. Johnston, spouse, Lydia McLane Johnston]
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A.
Elizabeth Woolridge Grant
Elizabeth Woolridge Grant is the American singer-songwriter and record producer better known by her stage name Lana Del Rey, acclaimed for her cinematic, melancholic pop music.
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B.
Theodosia Burr Alston
Theodosia Burr Alston was the highly educated and beloved daughter of U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr, remembered for her close intellectual relationship with her father and her mysterious disappearance at sea in 1813.
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C.
Augusta Adams Cobb
Augusta Adams Cobb was a 19th-century American woman best known as one of Brigham Young’s plural wives and an early participant in Mormon polygamy.
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D.
Elizabeth Collins Stoddard
Elizabeth Collins Stoddard is the stern but protective matriarch of the Collins family and caretaker of the Collinwood estate in the Dark Shadows franchise.
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E.
Elizabeth Harrison Randolph
Elizabeth Harrison Randolph was a member of the prominent Harrison family of colonial Virginia and the wife of Peyton Randolph, the first President of the Continental Congress.
- 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: Lydia McLane Johnston Target entity description: Lydia McLane Johnston was the wife of Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston and a member of the prominent McLane family of Baltimore.
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A.
Elizabeth Woolridge Grant
Elizabeth Woolridge Grant is the American singer-songwriter and record producer better known by her stage name Lana Del Rey, acclaimed for her cinematic, melancholic pop music.
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B.
Theodosia Burr Alston
Theodosia Burr Alston was the highly educated and beloved daughter of U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr, remembered for her close intellectual relationship with her father and her mysterious disappearance at sea in 1813.
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C.
Augusta Adams Cobb
Augusta Adams Cobb was a 19th-century American woman best known as one of Brigham Young’s plural wives and an early participant in Mormon polygamy.
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D.
Elizabeth Collins Stoddard
Elizabeth Collins Stoddard is the stern but protective matriarch of the Collins family and caretaker of the Collinwood estate in the Dark Shadows franchise.
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E.
Elizabeth Harrison Randolph
Elizabeth Harrison Randolph was a member of the prominent Harrison family of colonial Virginia and the wife of Peyton Randolph, the first President of the Continental Congress.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| countryOfAllegiance | Confederate States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| familyName |
Johnston
ⓘ
McLane ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Lydia ⓘ |
| location | Baltimore ⓘ |
| memberOf | McLane family ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Confederate States Army ⓘ |
| name | Lydia McLane Johnston ⓘ |
| notableFamily | McLane family of Baltimore ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston ⓘ |
| occupation | Confederate Army general ⓘ |
| relativeByMarriage | Joseph E. Johnston ⓘ |
| residence | Baltimore ⓘ |
| spouse |
Joseph E. Johnston
ⓘ
Lydia McLane Johnston ⓘ |
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: Lydia McLane Johnston Description of subject: Lydia McLane Johnston was the wife of Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston and a member of the prominent McLane family of Baltimore.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.