James Meade
E222004
James Meade was an American military officer after whom Meade County in Kentucky was named, recognized for his service in the early 19th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James Meade canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1990759 — 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: James Meade Context triple: [Meade County, Kentucky, namedAfter, James Meade]
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A.
John R. Hicks
John R. Hicks was a British economist and Nobel laureate renowned for his influential contributions to microeconomic theory, welfare economics, and the development of general equilibrium analysis.
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B.
Nicholas Kaldor
Nicholas Kaldor was a prominent 20th-century Hungarian-British economist known for his influential contributions to growth theory, distribution, and economic policy, particularly within the post-Keynesian tradition.
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C.
Arthur Cecil Pigou
Arthur Cecil Pigou was a British economist known for his foundational work in welfare economics and the theory of externalities, which strongly shaped modern public economics.
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D.
Lionel Robbins
Lionel Robbins was a prominent 20th-century British economist best known for his influential work on the nature and definition of economics and his role in shaping economic thought at the London School of Economics.
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E.
Frank Knight
Frank Knight was an influential American economist and founding figure of the Chicago School, best known for his work on risk, uncertainty, and profit.
- 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: James Meade Target entity description: James Meade was an American military officer after whom Meade County in Kentucky was named, recognized for his service in the early 19th century.
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A.
John R. Hicks
John R. Hicks was a British economist and Nobel laureate renowned for his influential contributions to microeconomic theory, welfare economics, and the development of general equilibrium analysis.
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B.
Nicholas Kaldor
Nicholas Kaldor was a prominent 20th-century Hungarian-British economist known for his influential contributions to growth theory, distribution, and economic policy, particularly within the post-Keynesian tradition.
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C.
Arthur Cecil Pigou
Arthur Cecil Pigou was a British economist known for his foundational work in welfare economics and the theory of externalities, which strongly shaped modern public economics.
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D.
Lionel Robbins
Lionel Robbins was a prominent 20th-century British economist best known for his influential work on the nature and definition of economics and his role in shaping economic thought at the London School of Economics.
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E.
Frank Knight
Frank Knight was an influential American economist and founding figure of the Chicago School, best known for his work on risk, uncertainty, and profit.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (17)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American military officer
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human ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 19th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | American ⓘ |
| hasHonor | U.S. county named in his honor ⓘ |
| hasNamesake | Meade County, Kentucky ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| namedAfter | James Meade self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| notableFact | namesake of Meade County, Kentucky ⓘ |
| notableFor | service in the early 19th century ⓘ |
| notableRole | American military officer in early 19th century ⓘ |
| occupation | military officer ⓘ |
| placeOfCommemoration | Meade County, Kentucky ⓘ |
| residence |
Kentucky
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surface form:
Kentucky (inferred, not certain)
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| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sphereOfActivity | military ⓘ |
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: James Meade Description of subject: James Meade was an American military officer after whom Meade County in Kentucky was named, recognized for his service in the early 19th century.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Meade County, Kentucky