Edith May Clarke Meredith
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Edith May Clarke Meredith was the wife of American publisher and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Edwin Thomas Meredith and a member of a prominent Iowa family involved in media and public life.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Edith May Clarke Meredith canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1449784 — 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: Edith May Clarke Meredith Context triple: [Edwin Thomas Meredith, spouse, Edith May Clarke Meredith]
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A.
Mildred McLean Hazen
Mildred McLean Hazen was an American socialite and Washington, D.C. hostess best known as the wife of Admiral George Dewey.
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B.
Muriel Buck Humphrey
Muriel Buck Humphrey was an American political figure who briefly served as a U.S. Senator from Minnesota and was the widow of Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey.
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C.
Olive E. Kenny
Olive E. Kenny was a translator known for rendering works such as Naguib Mahfouz’s novel "Sugar Street" into English.
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D.
Jane Elizabeth Lathrop
Jane Elizabeth Lathrop, better known as Jane Stanford, was an American philanthropist and co-founder of Stanford University alongside her husband Leland Stanford.
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E.
Caroline Dana Blymyer
Caroline Dana Blymyer was the wife of Charles G. Dawes, the 30th Vice President of the United States and Nobel Peace Prize–winning statesman.
- 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: Edith May Clarke Meredith Target entity description: Edith May Clarke Meredith was the wife of American publisher and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Edwin Thomas Meredith and a member of a prominent Iowa family involved in media and public life.
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A.
Mildred McLean Hazen
Mildred McLean Hazen was an American socialite and Washington, D.C. hostess best known as the wife of Admiral George Dewey.
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B.
Muriel Buck Humphrey
Muriel Buck Humphrey was an American political figure who briefly served as a U.S. Senator from Minnesota and was the widow of Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey.
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C.
Olive E. Kenny
Olive E. Kenny was a translator known for rendering works such as Naguib Mahfouz’s novel "Sugar Street" into English.
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D.
Jane Elizabeth Lathrop
Jane Elizabeth Lathrop, better known as Jane Stanford, was an American philanthropist and co-founder of Stanford University alongside her husband Leland Stanford.
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E.
Caroline Dana Blymyer
Caroline Dana Blymyer was the wife of Charles G. Dawes, the 30th Vice President of the United States and Nobel Peace Prize–winning statesman.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| associatedWithDomain |
American media
ⓘ
American politics ⓘ |
| associatedWithPlace | Iowa ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Meredith ⓘ |
| fieldOfActivity |
media
ⓘ
public life ⓘ |
| givenName | Edith ⓘ |
| languageOfCommunication | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | prominent Iowa family ⓘ |
| middleName | May ⓘ |
| name | Edith May Clarke Meredith ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the wife of American publisher Edwin Thomas Meredith
ⓘ
being the wife of U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Edwin Thomas Meredith ⓘ |
| notableRelative | Edwin Thomas Meredith ⓘ |
| residence | Iowa ⓘ |
| spouse | Edwin Thomas Meredith ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation |
United States Secretary of Agriculture
ⓘ
publisher ⓘ |
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: Edith May Clarke Meredith Description of subject: Edith May Clarke Meredith was the wife of American publisher and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Edwin Thomas Meredith and a member of a prominent Iowa family involved in media and public life.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.