Meshech Weare
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Meshech Weare was an American statesman who served as the first governor (then titled "president") of New Hampshire during the Revolutionary era.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Meshech Weare canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6233409 — 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: Meshech Weare Context triple: [Weare, New Hampshire, namedAfter, Meshech Weare]
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A.
Löwenthal
Löwenthal is the maiden surname of Elsa Einstein, who was both the second wife and cousin of physicist Albert Einstein.
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B.
Elias Hasket Derby
Elias Hasket Derby was a prominent 18th-century American merchant and shipowner, often regarded as one of the first millionaires in the United States for his influential role in early American international trade.
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C.
Meshech
Meshech is a biblical people or region mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, often listed among northern nations and associated with prophetic visions of distant lands and future conflicts.
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D.
Sherwin
Sherwin is a surname most notably associated with Martin J. Sherwin, an American historian known for his work on nuclear history and the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer.
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E.
Rosenbad
Rosenbad is a prominent government building complex in central Stockholm that houses the offices of the Prime Minister and the Swedish Government.
- 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: Meshech Weare Target entity description: Meshech Weare was an American statesman who served as the first governor (then titled "president") of New Hampshire during the Revolutionary era.
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A.
Löwenthal
Löwenthal is the maiden surname of Elsa Einstein, who was both the second wife and cousin of physicist Albert Einstein.
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B.
Elias Hasket Derby
Elias Hasket Derby was a prominent 18th-century American merchant and shipowner, often regarded as one of the first millionaires in the United States for his influential role in early American international trade.
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C.
Meshech
Meshech is a biblical people or region mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, often listed among northern nations and associated with prophetic visions of distant lands and future conflicts.
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D.
Sherwin
Sherwin is a surname most notably associated with Martin J. Sherwin, an American historian known for his work on nuclear history and the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer.
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E.
Rosenbad
Rosenbad is a prominent government building complex in central Stockholm that houses the offices of the Prime Minister and the Swedish Government.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American politician
ⓘ
human ⓘ statesman ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Hampton Falls, New Hampshire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Province of New Hampshire
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1713-01-16 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1786-01-14 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard University
ⓘ
surface form:
Harvard College
|
| ethnicGroup | English American NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNameInLanguage | Meshech Weare@en NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headOfGovernment | New Hampshire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| honoredIn | Weare, New Hampshire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf |
New Hampshire Committee of Safety
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New Hampshire House of Representatives NERFINISHED ⓘ New Hampshire Provincial Congress NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the first president of New Hampshire under its 1776 constitution
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leadership of New Hampshire during the American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| occupation |
farmer
ⓘ
judge ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| officeContested | governor of New Hampshire ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
American Revolution
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Hampton Falls, Province of New Hampshire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Hampton Falls, New Hampshire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Judicature of New Hampshire
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
President of New Hampshire ⓘ Speaker of the New Hampshire House of Representatives ⓘ member of the New Hampshire Committee of Safety ⓘ member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives ⓘ |
| religion | Congregationalism ⓘ |
| residence | Hampton Falls, New Hampshire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| significantEvent |
administration of New Hampshire as an independent state before the U.S. Constitution
ⓘ
adoption of the 1776 New Hampshire constitution ⓘ |
| spouse | Elizabeth Shaw NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| termEnd | 1785-06-01 ⓘ |
| termStart | 1776-01-05 ⓘ |
| workLocation | Exeter, New Hampshire 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: Meshech Weare Description of subject: Meshech Weare was an American statesman who served as the first governor (then titled "president") of New Hampshire during the Revolutionary era.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Weare, New Hampshire