Meredith
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Meredith is a surname of English and Welsh origin borne by various notable individuals across politics, arts, and other fields.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Meredith canonical | 20 |
| Meredith (The Office UK, loosely) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1449760 — 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: Meredith Context triple: [Edwin Thomas Meredith, familyName, Meredith]
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A.
Meredith Black
Meredith Black is the troubled protagonist of the film "The Beaver," whose severe depression leads her husband to communicate through a beaver hand puppet as an unconventional coping mechanism.
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B.
Laura Lyons
Laura Lyons is the mother of American fashion model Lily Aldridge.
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C.
Esther Drummond
Esther Drummond is a CIA analyst who becomes a key member of the Torchwood team in the science fiction television series "Torchwood: Miracle Day."
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D.
Mary Hartman
Mary Hartman is the neurotic, overwhelmed housewife protagonist of the satirical 1970s American soap opera parody "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman."
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E.
Margalo Gillmore
Margalo Gillmore was an English-born American stage and film actress known for her sophisticated supporting roles in Broadway productions and classic Hollywood films of the mid-20th century.
- 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: Meredith Target entity description: Meredith is a surname of English and Welsh origin borne by various notable individuals across politics, arts, and other fields.
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A.
Meredith Black
Meredith Black is the troubled protagonist of the film "The Beaver," whose severe depression leads her husband to communicate through a beaver hand puppet as an unconventional coping mechanism.
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B.
Laura Lyons
Laura Lyons is the mother of American fashion model Lily Aldridge.
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C.
Esther Drummond
Esther Drummond is a CIA analyst who becomes a key member of the Torchwood team in the science fiction television series "Torchwood: Miracle Day."
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D.
Mary Hartman
Mary Hartman is the neurotic, overwhelmed housewife protagonist of the satirical 1970s American soap opera parody "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman."
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E.
Margalo Gillmore
Margalo Gillmore was an English-born American stage and film actress known for her sophisticated supporting roles in Broadway productions and classic Hollywood films of the mid-20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family name
ⓘ
person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Canada
ⓘ
England ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| hasLanguageOrigin |
English
ⓘ
Welsh ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Burgess Meredith
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Don Meredith ⓘ Edwin Thomas Meredith ⓘ George Meredith ⓘ James Meredith ⓘ Sir William Meredith ⓘ William Morris Meredith Jr. ⓘ William Ralph Meredith ⓘ |
| hasSurname |
Meredith
self-linksurface differs
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Meredith self-linksurface differs ⓘ Meredith self-linksurface differs ⓘ Meredith self-linksurface differs ⓘ Meredith self-linksurface differs ⓘ Meredith self-linksurface differs ⓘ Meredith self-linksurface differs ⓘ Meredith self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| hasUsage |
English-speaking countries
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United Kingdom ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
Wales ⓘ |
| occupation |
American football player
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actor ⓘ civil rights activist ⓘ educator ⓘ film director ⓘ novelist ⓘ poet ⓘ poet ⓘ politician ⓘ politician ⓘ politician ⓘ publisher ⓘ sportscaster ⓘ |
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: Meredith Description of subject: Meredith is a surname of English and Welsh origin borne by various notable individuals across politics, arts, and other fields.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
George Meredith
subject surface form:
William Morris Meredith Jr.
subject surface form:
James Meredith
subject surface form:
Burgess Meredith
subject surface form:
William Ralph Meredith
subject surface form:
Edwin Thomas Meredith
subject surface form:
Don Meredith
subject surface form:
Sir William Meredith
this entity surface form:
Meredith (The Office UK, loosely)
subject surface form:
Don Meredith