Jeffrey S. Mearns
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Jeffrey S. Mearns is an American academic leader and attorney who serves as the president of Ball State University in Indiana.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jeffrey S. Mearns canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4891990 — 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: Jeffrey S. Mearns Context triple: [Ball State University, president, Jeffrey S. Mearns]
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A.
Jeffrey Stott
Jeffrey Stott is a film producer best known for his work on the political comedy film "The American President."
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B.
Andrew D. Martin
Andrew D. Martin is an American political scientist and academic administrator who serves as the chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis.
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C.
Peter A. Tyrrell
Peter A. Tyrrell was an American sports executive and promoter best known for his role in establishing and developing the early professional basketball franchise that became the Philadelphia Warriors.
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D.
Michael T. Williamson
Michael T. Williamson is an American actor best known for his role as Benjamin Buford "Bubba" Blue in the film Forrest Gump.
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E.
Barrie M. Osborne
Barrie M. Osborne is an American film producer best known for his work on large-scale, critically acclaimed epics such as The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
- 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: Jeffrey S. Mearns Target entity description: Jeffrey S. Mearns is an American academic leader and attorney who serves as the president of Ball State University in Indiana.
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A.
Jeffrey Stott
Jeffrey Stott is a film producer best known for his work on the political comedy film "The American President."
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B.
Andrew D. Martin
Andrew D. Martin is an American political scientist and academic administrator who serves as the chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis.
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C.
Peter A. Tyrrell
Peter A. Tyrrell was an American sports executive and promoter best known for his role in establishing and developing the early professional basketball franchise that became the Philadelphia Warriors.
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D.
Michael T. Williamson
Michael T. Williamson is an American actor best known for his role as Benjamin Buford "Bubba" Blue in the film Forrest Gump.
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E.
Barrie M. Osborne
Barrie M. Osborne is an American film producer best known for his work on large-scale, critically acclaimed epics such as The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American lawyer
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attorney ⓘ human ⓘ university president ⓘ |
| academicDegree |
Juris Doctor
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bachelor's degree ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Virginia School of Law
NERFINISHED
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Yale University ⓘ |
| employer |
Ball State University
NERFINISHED
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Cleveland State University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Mearns NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
higher education administration
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law ⓘ university leadership ⓘ |
| givenName | Jeffrey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Ball State University administration ⓘ |
| notableWork | leadership of Ball State University ⓘ |
| occupation |
academic administrator
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attorney ⓘ university president ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
president of Ball State University
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president of Cleveland State University ⓘ |
| residence | Indiana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation | Muncie, Indiana 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: Jeffrey S. Mearns Description of subject: Jeffrey S. Mearns is an American academic leader and attorney who serves as the president of Ball State University in Indiana.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.