Meade
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Meade is a surname most notably associated with George G. Meade, the Union general who commanded at the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Meade canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5254355 — 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: Meade Context triple: [George G. Meade, familyName, Meade]
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A.
Ritchey
Ritchey is a surname most notably associated with George Willis Ritchey, an American optician and telescope maker known for pioneering work in astronomical optics.
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B.
Sandage
Sandage is a surname most notably associated with Allan R. Sandage, a prominent American astronomer known for his work on the expansion rate and age of the universe.
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C.
Risley
Risley is a village in Derbyshire, England, known for its historic buildings and rural character near the town of Sandiacre.
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D.
Barnard
Barnard is a surname and given name of English and French origin, borne by various notable individuals and institutions.
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E.
Hale Telescope
The Hale Telescope is a historic 200-inch reflecting telescope at Palomar Observatory in California that was once the world’s largest and remains a landmark instrument in observational astronomy.
- 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: Meade Target entity description: Meade is a surname most notably associated with George G. Meade, the Union general who commanded at the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War.
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A.
Ritchey
Ritchey is a surname most notably associated with George Willis Ritchey, an American optician and telescope maker known for pioneering work in astronomical optics.
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B.
Sandage
Sandage is a surname most notably associated with Allan R. Sandage, a prominent American astronomer known for his work on the expansion rate and age of the universe.
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C.
Risley
Risley is a village in Derbyshire, England, known for its historic buildings and rural character near the town of Sandiacre.
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D.
Barnard
Barnard is a surname and given name of English and French origin, borne by various notable individuals and institutions.
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E.
Hale Telescope
The Hale Telescope is a historic 200-inch reflecting telescope at Palomar Observatory in California that was once the world’s largest and remains a landmark instrument in observational astronomy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Navy officer
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economist ⓘ human ⓘ military officer ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| allegiance | United States of America ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
NERFINISHED
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Thanks of Congress ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Laurel Hill Cemetery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| commanded | Army of the Potomac NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict | American Civil War ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Spain ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1815-12-31 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1872-11-06 ⓘ |
| education | United States Military Academy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Meade NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | George NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| graduationYear | 1835 ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| hasMonument | George Gordon Meade Memorial, Washington, D.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
George G. Meade
NERFINISHED
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James Meade NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Worsam Meade II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Mead
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Meades NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor | commanding the Union Army of the Potomac at the Battle of Gettysburg ⓘ |
| middleName | Gordon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Union Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militarySpecialty | engineer officer ⓘ |
| occupation |
army officer
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civil engineer ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Battle of Antietam
NERFINISHED
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Battle of Chancellorsville NERFINISHED ⓘ Battle of Fredericksburg NERFINISHED ⓘ Battle of Gettysburg NERFINISHED ⓘ Peninsula Campaign NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Cádiz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Philadelphia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| rank | major general ⓘ |
| spouse | Margaretta Sergeant Meade 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: Meade Description of subject: Meade is a surname most notably associated with George G. Meade, the Union general who commanded at the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.