Edwin Thomas Meredith
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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.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Edwin Thomas Meredith canonical | 6 |
| Edwin Meredith | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T152229 — 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: Edwin Thomas Meredith Context triple: [Meredith Corporation, foundedBy, Edwin Thomas Meredith]
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Charles Dudley Warner
Charles Dudley Warner was a 19th-century American essayist and novelist best known for co-authoring "The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today" with Mark Twain, which gave its name to the era of rapid economic growth and social inequality in post–Civil War America.
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James Russell Lowell
James Russell Lowell was a 19th-century American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat associated with the Fireside Poets and influential in shaping U.S. literary culture.
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C.
William Irving
William Irving was the brother of famed American author Washington Irving and a member of the prominent Irving family of early 19th-century New York.
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D.
John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier was a prominent 19th-century American Quaker poet and abolitionist best known for his anti-slavery writings and New England regional verse.
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E.
Charles Cabell
Charles Cabell was a U.S. Air Force general who served as Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency during the early Cold War era.
- 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: Edwin Thomas Meredith Target entity description: 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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A.
Charles Dudley Warner
Charles Dudley Warner was a 19th-century American essayist and novelist best known for co-authoring "The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today" with Mark Twain, which gave its name to the era of rapid economic growth and social inequality in post–Civil War America.
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B.
James Russell Lowell
James Russell Lowell was a 19th-century American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat associated with the Fireside Poets and influential in shaping U.S. literary culture.
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C.
William Irving
William Irving was the brother of famed American author Washington Irving and a member of the prominent Irving family of early 19th-century New York.
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D.
John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier was a prominent 19th-century American Quaker poet and abolitionist best known for his anti-slavery writings and New England regional verse.
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E.
Charles Cabell
Charles Cabell was a U.S. Air Force general who served as Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency during the early Cold War era.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
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: Edwin Thomas Meredith Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Edwin Thomas Meredith
linked to: Edwin Thomas Meredith