Meg Hourihan
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Meg Hourihan is an American software developer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of Pyra Labs, the company that created the pioneering blogging platform Blogger.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Meg Hourihan canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4832426 — 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: Meg Hourihan Context triple: [Pyra Labs, foundedBy, Meg Hourihan]
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A.
Siobhán McKenna
Siobhán McKenna was an acclaimed Irish stage and film actress renowned for her powerful performances in both classical and contemporary roles.
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B.
Maureen Monaghan
Maureen Monaghan is the mother of English actor Dominic Monaghan, known for his roles in "The Lord of the Rings" film trilogy and the television series "Lost."
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C.
Ginger Meehan
Ginger Meehan was the wife of renowned American lyricist and songwriter Johnny Mercer.
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D.
Bridget Moynahan
Bridget Moynahan is an American actress and model best known for her roles in films like "Coyote Ugly" and "I, Robot" and the TV series "Blue Bloods."
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E.
Lynn O'Donnell
Lynn O'Donnell is a film and television producer best known for her work on the documentary "Crumb."
- 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: Meg Hourihan Target entity description: Meg Hourihan is an American software developer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of Pyra Labs, the company that created the pioneering blogging platform Blogger.
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A.
Siobhán McKenna
Siobhán McKenna was an acclaimed Irish stage and film actress renowned for her powerful performances in both classical and contemporary roles.
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B.
Maureen Monaghan
Maureen Monaghan is the mother of English actor Dominic Monaghan, known for his roles in "The Lord of the Rings" film trilogy and the television series "Lost."
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C.
Ginger Meehan
Ginger Meehan was the wife of renowned American lyricist and songwriter Johnny Mercer.
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D.
Lynn O'Donnell
Lynn O'Donnell is a film and television producer best known for her work on the documentary "Crumb."
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E.
Bridget Moynahan
Bridget Moynahan is an American actress and model best known for her roles in films like "Coyote Ugly" and "I, Robot" and the TV series "Blue Bloods."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
blogger
ⓘ
entrepreneur ⓘ person ⓘ software developer ⓘ |
| activity |
writing about food and travel
ⓘ
writing about technology and blogging ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Blogger
ⓘ
Google ⓘ Pyra Labs ⓘ |
| coFounded | Pyra Labs ⓘ |
| coFounderWith |
Evan Williams
ⓘ
Paul Bausch ⓘ |
| describedAs | pioneer of blogging ⓘ |
| employer | Pyra Labs ⓘ |
| era | early web 2.0 era ⓘ |
| familyName | Hourihan ⓘ |
| field |
blogging
ⓘ
software ⓘ |
| foundedOrganizationType | software company ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Meg ⓘ |
| hasBlog | megnut.com ⓘ |
| hasOnlinePresence | personal blog ⓘ |
| hasRole |
co-founder of Pyra Labs
ⓘ
early blogging advocate ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://megnut.com/ ⓘ |
| industry |
internet
ⓘ
technology ⓘ |
| influenced | early blogging culture ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Blogger
ⓘ
co-founding Pyra Labs ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Meg Hourihan ⓘ |
| nationality |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| notableAchievement | helping popularize personal blogging ⓘ |
| notableWork | Blogger ⓘ |
| occupation |
entrepreneur
ⓘ
software developer ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| partner | Jason Kottke ⓘ |
| reasonForNotability | creation of one of the first mainstream blogging platforms ⓘ |
| residence |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| spouse | Jason Kottke ⓘ |
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: Meg Hourihan Description of subject: Meg Hourihan is an American software developer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of Pyra Labs, the company that created the pioneering blogging platform Blogger.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.