Mudd
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Mudd is a surname most historically associated with Dr. Samuel Mudd, the American physician implicated in the aftermath of President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mudd canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7363849 — 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: Mudd Context triple: [Samuel Mudd, familyName, Mudd]
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A.
Mr. Mudd
Mr. Mudd is a film and television production company known for producing acclaimed independent and character-driven projects.
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B.
Mervin
Mervin is a masculine given name of English origin, often used as a variant of Marvin or Mervyn.
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C.
Sybok
Sybok is a Vulcan character in the Star Trek universe known for rejecting traditional Vulcan logic in favor of embracing and exploring emotions.
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D.
Mauger
Mauger was a Norman nobleman of the Hauteville family, known as one of the lesser-documented members of the influential dynasty that played a key role in the conquest and governance of southern Italy and Sicily in the 11th century.
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E.
Slinker
Slinker is one of the derisive nicknames given to Gollum in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, reflecting his sneaky, creeping nature.
- 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: Mudd Target entity description: Mudd is a surname most historically associated with Dr. Samuel Mudd, the American physician implicated in the aftermath of President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination.
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A.
Mr. Mudd
Mr. Mudd is a film and television production company known for producing acclaimed independent and character-driven projects.
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B.
Mervin
Mervin is a masculine given name of English origin, often used as a variant of Marvin or Mervyn.
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C.
Sybok
Sybok is a Vulcan character in the Star Trek universe known for rejecting traditional Vulcan logic in favor of embracing and exploring emotions.
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D.
Mauger
Mauger was a Norman nobleman of the Hauteville family, known as one of the lesser-documented members of the influential dynasty that played a key role in the conquest and governance of southern Italy and Sicily in the 11th century.
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E.
Slinker
Slinker is one of the derisive nicknames given to Gollum in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, reflecting his sneaky, creeping nature.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (23)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
President of the United States
ⓘ
historical event ⓘ human ⓘ physician ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent | assassination of Abraham Lincoln NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithPerson |
Abraham Lincoln
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
John Wilkes Booth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| familyName | Mudd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Samuel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Samuel Mudd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableHistoricalAssociation |
Samuel Mudd
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
assassination of Abraham Lincoln NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasVariantSpelling | Mud ⓘ |
| implicatedIn | aftermath of Abraham Lincoln assassination ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
connection to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
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treating John Wilkes Booth after Abraham Lincoln was shot ⓘ |
| occupation |
doctor
ⓘ
physician ⓘ |
| usedInCountry |
United Kingdom
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
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: Mudd Description of subject: Mudd is a surname most historically associated with Dr. Samuel Mudd, the American physician implicated in the aftermath of President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Samuel Mudd