William Morris Meredith Jr.
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William Morris Meredith Jr. was an American poet and educator who served as U.S. Poet Laureate and won both the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for his work.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William Morris Meredith Jr. canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7169543 — 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 Morris Meredith Jr. Context triple: [Meredith, hasNotableBearer, William Morris Meredith Jr.]
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A.
Edmund Clarence Stedman
Edmund Clarence Stedman was a 19th-century American poet, critic, and editor known for his influential literary anthologies and essays.
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B.
Edwin Thomas Meredith
Edwin Thomas Meredith was an American publishing magnate and politician who founded the media company that became Meredith Corporation and served as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture under President Woodrow Wilson.
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C.
Vachel Lindsay
Vachel Lindsay was an influential American poet known for his rhythmic, chant-like verse and performances that helped pioneer modern spoken-word poetry in the early 20th century.
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D.
Frank W. Benson
Frank W. Benson was an American painter and printmaker renowned for his luminous Impressionist depictions of outdoor leisure scenes, wildlife, and portraits.
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E.
Charles Lowell
Charles Lowell was a prominent early 19th-century American Unitarian minister and the father of poet and critic James Russell Lowell.
- 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 Morris Meredith Jr. Target entity description: William Morris Meredith Jr. was an American poet and educator who served as U.S. Poet Laureate and won both the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for his work.
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A.
Edmund Clarence Stedman
Edmund Clarence Stedman was a 19th-century American poet, critic, and editor known for his influential literary anthologies and essays.
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B.
Edwin Thomas Meredith
Edwin Thomas Meredith was an American publishing magnate and politician who founded the media company that became Meredith Corporation and served as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture under President Woodrow Wilson.
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C.
Vachel Lindsay
Vachel Lindsay was an influential American poet known for his rhythmic, chant-like verse and performances that helped pioneer modern spoken-word poetry in the early 20th century.
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D.
Frank W. Benson
Frank W. Benson was an American painter and printmaker renowned for his luminous Impressionist depictions of outdoor leisure scenes, wildlife, and portraits.
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E.
Charles Lowell
Charles Lowell was a prominent early 19th-century American Unitarian minister and the father of poet and critic James Russell Lowell.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
educator
ⓘ
human ⓘ literary critic ⓘ poet ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Bollingen Prize for Poetry
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets NERFINISHED ⓘ National Book Award for Poetry NERFINISHED ⓘ Pulitzer Prize for Poetry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | Alzheimer's disease ⓘ |
| conflict |
Korean War
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World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1919-01-09 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2007-05-30 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Princeton University
ⓘ
Sorbonne University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
Bread Loaf Writers' Conference
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Connecticut College NERFINISHED ⓘ Princeton University ⓘ |
| familyName | Meredith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
American poetry
ⓘ
literary education ⓘ |
| fullName | William Morris Meredith Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | poetry ⓘ |
| givenName | William ⓘ |
| hasInfluenced | contemporary American poets ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Academy of American Poets
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
American Academy of Arts and Letters NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Navy ⓘ |
| militaryRank | pilot ⓘ |
| movement | formalism ⓘ |
| notableAwardWork | Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Earth Walk: New and Selected Poems
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Effort at Speech NERFINISHED ⓘ Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems NERFINISHED ⓘ The Open Sea and Other Poems NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
educator
ⓘ
literary critic ⓘ poet ⓘ professor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | New York City ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | New London, Connecticut NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Uncasville, Connecticut NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serviceNumber | United States Naval Reserve officer ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 Morris Meredith Jr. Description of subject: William Morris Meredith Jr. was an American poet and educator who served as U.S. Poet Laureate and won both the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for his work.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.