Richard Worsam Meade
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Richard Worsam Meade was a prominent early 19th-century American naval officer who served with distinction in the U.S. Navy during the War of 1812 and other conflicts.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Richard Worsam Meade canonical | 2 |
| Richard Worsam Meade II | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5254385 — 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: Richard Worsam Meade Context triple: [George G. Meade, father, Richard Worsam Meade]
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A.
George W. Gage
George W. Gage was a prominent 19th-century Chicago businessman and civic leader after whom Gage Park in Chicago is named.
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B.
William B. Waddell
William B. Waddell was a 19th-century American businessman best known as one of the founders of the Pony Express mail service.
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C.
William Meade
William Meade was a prominent 19th-century American Episcopal bishop and religious leader known for his influential role in the church and in Virginia society.
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D.
Sir George Pomeroy Colley
Sir George Pomeroy Colley was a British Army officer and colonial administrator best known for his ill-fated leadership and death in battle during the early stages of the First Boer War.
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E.
Henry Ware Lawton
Henry Ware Lawton was a highly decorated U.S. Army officer and Medal of Honor recipient who served in multiple conflicts, including the Civil War, Indian Wars, Spanish–American War, and ultimately the Philippine–American War, where he was killed in action.
- 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: Richard Worsam Meade Target entity description: Richard Worsam Meade was a prominent early 19th-century American naval officer who served with distinction in the U.S. Navy during the War of 1812 and other conflicts.
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A.
George W. Gage
George W. Gage was a prominent 19th-century Chicago businessman and civic leader after whom Gage Park in Chicago is named.
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B.
William B. Waddell
William B. Waddell was a 19th-century American businessman best known as one of the founders of the Pony Express mail service.
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C.
William Meade
William Meade was a prominent 19th-century American Episcopal bishop and religious leader known for his influential role in the church and in Virginia society.
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D.
Sir George Pomeroy Colley
Sir George Pomeroy Colley was a British Army officer and colonial administrator best known for his ill-fated leadership and death in battle during the early stages of the First Boer War.
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E.
Henry Ware Lawton
Henry Ware Lawton was a highly decorated U.S. Army officer and Medal of Honor recipient who served in multiple conflicts, including the Civil War, Indian Wars, Spanish–American War, and ultimately the Philippine–American War, where he was killed in action.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Navy officer
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human ⓘ military personnel of the War of 1812 ⓘ |
| activity | naval warfare ⓘ |
| allegiance | United States of America ⓘ |
| conflict |
War of 1812
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other early 19th-century U.S. naval conflicts ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| era | post-Revolutionary United States ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Navy ⓘ |
| militaryRank | officer ⓘ |
| militaryService | served with distinction in the U.S. Navy ⓘ |
| name | Richard Worsam Meade ⓘ |
| notability | prominent American naval officer of the early 19th century ⓘ |
| notableWork | service in the U.S. Navy during the War of 1812 ⓘ |
| occupation | naval officer ⓘ |
| participatedIn | United States naval operations during the War of 1812 ⓘ |
| role | U.S. Navy officer during the War of 1812 ⓘ |
| serviceEntry | served in the U.S. Navy in the early 19th century ⓘ |
| timePeriod | early 19th century ⓘ |
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: Richard Worsam Meade Description of subject: Richard Worsam Meade was a prominent early 19th-century American naval officer who served with distinction in the U.S. Navy during the War of 1812 and other conflicts.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Richard Worsam Meade