Emily Tennessee Donelson
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Emily Tennessee Donelson was the niece of U.S. President Andrew Jackson who served as White House hostess and unofficial First Lady during his administration.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Emily Tennessee Donelson canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8356269 — 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: Emily Tennessee Donelson Context triple: [Andrew Jackson Donelson, spouse, Emily Tennessee Donelson]
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A.
Eliza McCardle Johnson
Eliza McCardle Johnson was the First Lady of the United States during Andrew Johnson’s presidency, known for her private nature and limited public role due to poor health.
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B.
Sarah Childress Polk
Sarah Childress Polk was the First Lady of the United States from 1845 to 1849, noted for her political influence, strict social decorum, and support of her husband President James K. Polk’s administration.
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C.
Mary Todd Lincoln
Mary Todd Lincoln was the First Lady of the United States during Abraham Lincoln’s presidency, known for her political influence, personal tragedies, and controversial public image during and after the Civil War.
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D.
Mary J. Lincoln
Mary J. Lincoln was a pioneering American cookbook author and one of the first professional cooking instructors, best known for helping to establish scientific, standardized methods of domestic cookery in the late 19th century.
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E.
Julia Gardiner Tyler
Julia Gardiner Tyler was the second wife of U.S. President John Tyler and served as First Lady of the United States from 1844 to 1845.
- 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: Emily Tennessee Donelson Target entity description: Emily Tennessee Donelson was the niece of U.S. President Andrew Jackson who served as White House hostess and unofficial First Lady during his administration.
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A.
Eliza McCardle Johnson
Eliza McCardle Johnson was the First Lady of the United States during Andrew Johnson’s presidency, known for her private nature and limited public role due to poor health.
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B.
Sarah Childress Polk
Sarah Childress Polk was the First Lady of the United States from 1845 to 1849, noted for her political influence, strict social decorum, and support of her husband President James K. Polk’s administration.
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C.
Mary Todd Lincoln
Mary Todd Lincoln was the First Lady of the United States during Abraham Lincoln’s presidency, known for her political influence, personal tragedies, and controversial public image during and after the Civil War.
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D.
Mary J. Lincoln
Mary J. Lincoln was a pioneering American cookbook author and one of the first professional cooking instructors, best known for helping to establish scientific, standardized methods of domestic cookery in the late 19th century.
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E.
Julia Gardiner Tyler
Julia Gardiner Tyler was the second wife of U.S. President John Tyler and served as First Lady of the United States from 1844 to 1845.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American socialite
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White House hostess ⓘ person ⓘ |
| burialPlace | The Hermitage ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | tuberculosis ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1807-06-01 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1836-12-19 ⓘ |
| endTime | 1834 ⓘ |
| familyName | Donelson ⓘ |
| givenName | Emily ⓘ |
| memberOf | Jackson family ⓘ |
| middleName | Tennessee ⓘ |
| notableFor |
acting as unofficial First Lady after the death of Rachel Jackson
ⓘ
serving as White House hostess for President Andrew Jackson ⓘ |
| occupation |
hostess
ⓘ
political hostess ⓘ |
| partOf |
Presidency of Andrew Jackson
ⓘ
linked to:
Andrew Jackson presidency
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| placeOfBirth | Tennessee ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
White House hostess
ⓘ
unofficial First Lady of the United States ⓘ |
| relative | Andrew Jackson ⓘ |
| religion |
Presbyterianism
ⓘ
linked to:
Presbyterian
|
| residence |
The Hermitage
ⓘ
White House ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Andrew Jackson Donelson ⓘ |
| startTime | 1829 ⓘ |
| uncle | Andrew Jackson ⓘ |
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: Emily Tennessee Donelson Description of subject: Emily Tennessee Donelson was the niece of U.S. President Andrew Jackson who served as White House hostess and unofficial First Lady during his administration.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.