William Meade
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William Meade was a prominent 19th-century American Episcopal bishop and religious leader known for his influential role in the church and in Virginia society.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William Meade canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4941449 — 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: William Meade Context triple: [Episcopal Diocese of Virginia, hasFormerBishop, William Meade]
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A.
Alvan C. Gillem
Alvan C. Gillem was a United States Army officer and Civil War veteran who later led federal troops in campaigns against Native American groups in the West.
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B.
William B. Waddell
William B. Waddell was a 19th-century American businessman best known as one of the founders of the Pony Express mail service.
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C.
Edward Otho Cresap Ord
Edward Otho Cresap Ord was a 19th-century United States Army officer and engineer best known for his service in the Mexican–American War and the American Civil War.
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D.
William H. Steele
William H. Steele was an individual notable enough to be specifically recorded as interred at Hackensack Cemetery in New Jersey.
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E.
Charles Dwight Sigsbee
Charles Dwight Sigsbee was a United States Navy rear admiral best known as the captain of the USS Maine when it exploded in Havana Harbor in 1898, an event that helped trigger the Spanish–American War.
- 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: William Meade Target entity description: William Meade was a prominent 19th-century American Episcopal bishop and religious leader known for his influential role in the church and in Virginia society.
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A.
Alvan C. Gillem
Alvan C. Gillem was a United States Army officer and Civil War veteran who later led federal troops in campaigns against Native American groups in the West.
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B.
William B. Waddell
William B. Waddell was a 19th-century American businessman best known as one of the founders of the Pony Express mail service.
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C.
Edward Otho Cresap Ord
Edward Otho Cresap Ord was a 19th-century United States Army officer and engineer best known for his service in the Mexican–American War and the American Civil War.
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D.
William H. Steele
William H. Steele was an individual notable enough to be specifically recorded as interred at Hackensack Cemetery in New Jersey.
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E.
Charles Dwight Sigsbee
Charles Dwight Sigsbee was a United States Navy rear admiral best known as the captain of the USS Maine when it exploded in Havana Harbor in 1898, an event that helped trigger the Spanish–American War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Episcopal bishop
ⓘ
human ⓘ religious leader ⓘ |
| activeIn | 19th century ⓘ |
| appointed |
Assistant Bishop of Virginia in 1829
ⓘ
Bishop of Virginia in 1841 ⓘ |
| consecrationDate | 1829-08-19 ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1789-11-11 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1862-03-14 ⓘ |
| diocese | Episcopal Diocese of Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
College of New Jersey
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Princeton University ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | European American ⓘ |
| familyName | Meade NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
biographical writing
ⓘ
religious history ⓘ |
| givenName | William ⓘ |
| hasPart | ministry among rural Virginia parishes ⓘ |
| influenced | religious life in antebellum Virginia ⓘ |
| knownFor |
historical writings on Virginia churches and clergy
ⓘ
influence on 19th-century Virginia religious life ⓘ leadership in the Episcopal Church in Virginia ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Episcopal Church in the United States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | Evangelical wing of the Episcopal Church NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableWork | Old Churches, Ministers and Families of Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
ⓘ
bishop ⓘ clergyman ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Frederick County, Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBurial | Old Chapel Cemetery, Millwood, Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Millwood, Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Assistant Bishop of Virginia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion |
Anglicanism
ⓘ
Episcopal Church (United States) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| subjectOf | studies of the Episcopal Church in the American South ⓘ |
| workLocation |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
Virginia 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: William Meade Description of subject: William Meade was a prominent 19th-century American Episcopal bishop and religious leader known for his influential role in the church and in Virginia society.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.