George Meredith
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George Meredith was a Victorian-era English novelist and poet known for his psychologically complex characters, innovative narrative style, and influential works such as "The Egoist" and "Diana of the Crossways."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| George Meredith canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4374050 — 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: George Meredith Context triple: [The Fortnightly Review, notableContributor, George Meredith]
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A.
George Eliot
George Eliot was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans, a major 19th-century English novelist renowned for her psychologically nuanced, realist works such as "Middlemarch" and "Silas Marner."
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B.
Coventry Patmore
Coventry Patmore was a 19th-century English poet and critic best known for his domestic-themed verse, particularly the long poem "The Angel in the House."
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C.
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy was an influential English novelist and poet whose works, including "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" and "Far from the Madding Crowd," vividly depict rural life and social constraints in late 19th-century Britain.
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D.
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy was a British Royal Navy officer best known as Captain of HMS Victory and flag captain to Admiral Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar.
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E.
Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollope was a prominent 19th-century English novelist best known for his Barsetshire and Palliser series, which vividly depict Victorian society and politics.
- 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: George Meredith Target entity description: George Meredith was a Victorian-era English novelist and poet known for his psychologically complex characters, innovative narrative style, and influential works such as "The Egoist" and "Diana of the Crossways."
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A.
George Eliot
George Eliot was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans, a major 19th-century English novelist renowned for her psychologically nuanced, realist works such as "Middlemarch" and "Silas Marner."
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B.
Coventry Patmore
Coventry Patmore was a 19th-century English poet and critic best known for his domestic-themed verse, particularly the long poem "The Angel in the House."
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C.
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy was an influential English novelist and poet whose works, including "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" and "Far from the Madding Crowd," vividly depict rural life and social constraints in late 19th-century Britain.
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D.
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy was a British Royal Navy officer best known as Captain of HMS Victory and flag captain to Admiral Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar.
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E.
Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollope was a prominent 19th-century English novelist best known for his Barsetshire and Palliser series, which vividly depict Victorian society and politics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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literary critic ⓘ novelist ⓘ poet ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Order of Merit ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1828-02-12 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
England
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Hampshire NERFINISHED ⓘ Portsmouth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child | Arthur Meredith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1909-05-18 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Box Hill
NERFINISHED
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England ⓘ Surrey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt | St Paul's School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English ⓘ |
| genre |
poetry
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psychological fiction ⓘ social novel ⓘ |
| influenced |
George Eliot
NERFINISHED
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Henry James NERFINISHED ⓘ James Joyce NERFINISHED ⓘ Thomas Hardy NERFINISHED ⓘ Virginia Woolf NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Goethe
NERFINISHED
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Jane Austen NERFINISHED ⓘ Thomas Carlyle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
innovative narrative style
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psychologically complex characters ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | Victorian literature NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | George Meredith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Beauchamp's Career
NERFINISHED
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Diana of the Crossways NERFINISHED ⓘ Evan Harrington NERFINISHED ⓘ Modern Love NERFINISHED ⓘ Rhoda Fleming NERFINISHED ⓘ The Adventures of Harry Richmond NERFINISHED ⓘ The Egoist NERFINISHED ⓘ The Ordeal of Richard Feverel NERFINISHED ⓘ Vittoria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
journalist
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novelist ⓘ poet ⓘ publisher's reader ⓘ |
| period | Victorian era NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Box Hill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse |
Marie Vulliamy
NERFINISHED
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Mary Ellen Nicolls NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: George Meredith Description of subject: George Meredith was a Victorian-era English novelist and poet known for his psychologically complex characters, innovative narrative style, and influential works such as "The Egoist" and "Diana of the Crossways."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.