Martha Johnson Patterson
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Martha Johnson Patterson was the daughter of U.S. President Andrew Johnson who served as an informal White House hostess and caretaker of the presidential mansion during his administration.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Martha Johnson Patterson canonical | 6 |
| Martha Johnson | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6679543 — 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 Johnson Patterson Context triple: [Eliza McCardle Johnson, child, Martha Johnson Patterson]
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A.
Edna Louise Johnson
Edna Louise Johnson was the wife of American lawyer and political activist Dudley Field Malone.
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B.
Mary Jennings
Mary Jennings was the first wife of American folk singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie.
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C.
Mayme Hatcher Johnson
Mayme Hatcher Johnson was an American author and the widow of Harlem crime boss Bumpy Johnson, known for her memoir recounting their life together in mid-20th-century New York.
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D.
Edna Mae McCauley
Edna Mae McCauley is the central character in the 1980 drama film "Resurrection," a woman who miraculously survives a near-fatal accident and discovers she has the power to heal others.
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E.
Henrietta Thompson
Henrietta Thompson was the mother of British Army officer General James Wolfe, famed for his victory at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham during the Seven Years' War.
- 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 Johnson Patterson Target entity description: Martha Johnson Patterson was the daughter of U.S. President Andrew Johnson who served as an informal White House hostess and caretaker of the presidential mansion during his administration.
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A.
Edna Louise Johnson
Edna Louise Johnson was the wife of American lawyer and political activist Dudley Field Malone.
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B.
Mary Jennings
Mary Jennings was the first wife of American folk singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie.
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C.
Mayme Hatcher Johnson
Mayme Hatcher Johnson was an American author and the widow of Harlem crime boss Bumpy Johnson, known for her memoir recounting their life together in mid-20th-century New York.
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D.
Edna Mae McCauley
Edna Mae McCauley is the central character in the 1980 drama film "Resurrection," a woman who miraculously survives a near-fatal accident and discovers she has the power to heal others.
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E.
Henrietta Thompson
Henrietta Thompson was the mother of British Army officer General James Wolfe, famed for his victory at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham during the Seven Years' War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
First Lady of the United States role-holder
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Andrew Johnson administration
ⓘ
linked to:
Presidency of Andrew Johnson
Reconstruction era United States ⓘ
linked to:
Reconstruction era
|
| birthName |
Martha Johnson
ⓘ
linked to:
Martha Johnson Patterson
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| describedBySource | historical accounts of Andrew Johnson presidency ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Greeneville College (informal association / local education) ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | European American ⓘ |
| familyName | Patterson ⓘ |
| father | Andrew Johnson ⓘ |
| givenName | Martha ⓘ |
| hasNotableRelative | 17th President of the United States ⓘ |
| hasRole |
caretaker of the presidential mansion
ⓘ
social hostess for the Johnson administration ⓘ |
| householdRole | manager of White House domestic arrangements ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| mother | Eliza McCardle Johnson ⓘ |
| notableFor |
care and preservation of presidential mansion furnishings
ⓘ
serving as informal White House hostess for President Andrew Johnson ⓘ |
| notableWork | restoration and redecoration of the White House during Andrew Johnson administration ⓘ |
| occupation | political hostess ⓘ |
| partOf | Johnson family ⓘ |
| placeOfOrigin | Tennessee ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | Democratic Party milieu of Andrew Johnson ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
White House hostess
ⓘ
acting First Lady of the United States ⓘ |
| relative |
Andrew Johnson
ⓘ
Andrew Johnson Jr. ⓘ
linked to:
Andrew Johnson
Eliza McCardle Johnson ⓘ Mary Johnson Stover ⓘ |
| residence |
Greeneville, Tennessee
ⓘ
White House ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| socialRole | organizer of official receptions and events at the White House ⓘ |
| spouse | David T. Patterson ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Washington, D.C.
ⓘ
White House ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 Johnson Patterson Description of subject: Martha Johnson Patterson was the daughter of U.S. President Andrew Johnson who served as an informal White House hostess and caretaker of the presidential mansion during his administration.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Martha Johnson Patterson