Dick Meeker
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Dick Meeker was the first husband of actress Mary Tyler Moore, whom she married as a teenager before beginning her rise to television stardom.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dick Meeker canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3357816 — 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: Dick Meeker Context triple: [Mary Tyler Moore, spouse, Dick Meeker]
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A.
Kenneth Utt
Kenneth Utt was an American film producer best known for his work on acclaimed films such as "The Silence of the Lambs."
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B.
John Kiffmeyer
John Kiffmeyer is an American drummer best known for being the original drummer of the punk rock band Green Day during their early years.
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C.
Dennis Yost
Dennis Yost was an American singer best known as the lead vocalist of the 1960s and 1970s soft rock group Classics IV, noted for hits like "Spooky" and "Traces."
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D.
Don Brautigam
Don Brautigam was an American illustrator best known for his striking, realistic cover art for horror and thriller novels, including works by Stephen King.
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E.
Fred McMullin
Fred McMullin was a utility infielder for the Chicago White Sox best known for his role as one of the eight players implicated in the 1919 Black Sox Scandal.
- 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: Dick Meeker Target entity description: Dick Meeker was the first husband of actress Mary Tyler Moore, whom she married as a teenager before beginning her rise to television stardom.
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A.
Kenneth Utt
Kenneth Utt was an American film producer best known for his work on acclaimed films such as "The Silence of the Lambs."
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B.
John Kiffmeyer
John Kiffmeyer is an American drummer best known for being the original drummer of the punk rock band Green Day during their early years.
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C.
Dennis Yost
Dennis Yost was an American singer best known as the lead vocalist of the 1960s and 1970s soft rock group Classics IV, noted for hits like "Spooky" and "Traces."
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D.
Don Brautigam
Don Brautigam was an American illustrator best known for his striking, realistic cover art for horror and thriller novels, including works by Stephen King.
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E.
Fred McMullin
Fred McMullin was a utility infielder for the Chicago White Sox best known for his role as one of the eight players implicated in the 1919 Black Sox Scandal.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | person ⓘ |
| marriagePeriodRelative | married Mary Tyler Moore when she was a teenager ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the first husband of Mary Tyler Moore ⓘ |
| positionInSpouseOrder | first husband of Mary Tyler Moore ⓘ |
| spouse |
Dick Meeker
ⓘ
Mary Tyler Moore ⓘ |
| spouseNationality | American ⓘ |
| spouseNotableWork |
The Dick Van Dyke Show
ⓘ
The Mary Tyler Moore Show ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation |
actress
ⓘ
television actress ⓘ |
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: Dick Meeker Description of subject: Dick Meeker was the first husband of actress Mary Tyler Moore, whom she married as a teenager before beginning her rise to television stardom.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Dick Meeker