Augustus Meaher
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Augustus Meaher was a 19th-century Alabama landowner and timber businessman historically associated with the last known illegal slave ship, the Clotilda, and the land that later became Meaher State Park.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Augustus Meaher canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6374871 — 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: Augustus Meaher Context triple: [Meaher State Park, namedAfter, Augustus Meaher]
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A.
Augustus Trowbridge
Augustus Trowbridge was an American physicist and academic known for his work in optics and for mentoring influential engineers and scientists in the early 20th century.
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B.
Augustus Johnston
Augustus Johnston was a colonial-era official and attorney in Rhode Island, notably serving as the colony’s attorney general around the time of the American Revolution.
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C.
Ogden Livingston Mills
Ogden Livingston Mills was an American financier and Republican politician who served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under President Herbert Hoover during the early years of the Great Depression.
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D.
George Meeker
George Meeker was an American character actor active in the early to mid-20th century, known for his supporting roles in numerous Hollywood films.
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E.
Horace Cleveland
Horace Cleveland was a prominent 19th-century American landscape architect known for designing parks, cemeteries, and urban green spaces across the United States.
- 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: Augustus Meaher Target entity description: Augustus Meaher was a 19th-century Alabama landowner and timber businessman historically associated with the last known illegal slave ship, the Clotilda, and the land that later became Meaher State Park.
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A.
Augustus Trowbridge
Augustus Trowbridge was an American physicist and academic known for his work in optics and for mentoring influential engineers and scientists in the early 20th century.
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B.
Augustus Johnston
Augustus Johnston was a colonial-era official and attorney in Rhode Island, notably serving as the colony’s attorney general around the time of the American Revolution.
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C.
Ogden Livingston Mills
Ogden Livingston Mills was an American financier and Republican politician who served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under President Herbert Hoover during the early years of the Great Depression.
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D.
George Meeker
George Meeker was an American character actor active in the early to mid-20th century, known for his supporting roles in numerous Hollywood films.
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E.
Horace Cleveland
Horace Cleveland was a prominent 19th-century American landscape architect known for designing parks, cemeteries, and urban green spaces across the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American landowner
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human ⓘ |
| activeInCentury | 19th century ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Clotilda
ⓘ
Meaher State Park ⓘ |
| businessSector |
land development
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timber industry ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| historicalRole | figure in the history of the illegal transatlantic slave trade to the United States ⓘ |
| knownFor |
association with the slave ship Clotilda
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ownership of land that became Meaher State Park ⓘ |
| legacy | landholdings later used for public recreation at Meaher State Park ⓘ |
| notableEvent | involvement in the last known illegal transatlantic slave ship to the United States ⓘ |
| occupation |
landowner
ⓘ
timber businessman ⓘ |
| placeOfBusiness |
Mobile Bay area
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linked to:
Mobile Bay
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| residence |
Alabama
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Mobile, Alabama ⓘ |
| stateOfActivity | Alabama ⓘ |
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: Augustus Meaher Description of subject: Augustus Meaher was a 19th-century Alabama landowner and timber businessman historically associated with the last known illegal slave ship, the Clotilda, and the land that later became Meaher State Park.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.