William Meadows
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William Meadows was the partner of American labor union activist and nuclear safety whistleblower Karen Silkwood.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| William Meadows canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9394801 — 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: William Meadows Context triple: [Karen Silkwood, spouse, William Meadows]
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A.
Arthur Stewart Farmer
Arthur Stewart Farmer was an acclaimed American jazz trumpeter and flugelhornist known for his lyrical style and work in both small groups and big bands from the 1950s onward.
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B.
Thomas Parkhurst
Thomas Parkhurst was a 17th-century London bookseller and publisher known for issuing prominent Puritan and religious works.
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C.
Edward Milford
Edward Milford was a senior Australian Army officer and World War II commander who played a key leadership role in the Pacific theatre.
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D.
William Robinson Jr.
William Robinson Jr. is the birth name of Smokey Robinson, the legendary American singer, songwriter, and record producer who was a key figure in the development of Motown.
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E.
William Methwold
William Methwold is a British colonial officer and property owner in Salman Rushdie’s novel "Midnight’s Children," whose legacy and actions significantly shape the protagonist Saleem Sinai’s origins and identity.
- 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: William Meadows Target entity description: William Meadows was the partner of American labor union activist and nuclear safety whistleblower Karen Silkwood.
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A.
Arthur Stewart Farmer
Arthur Stewart Farmer was an acclaimed American jazz trumpeter and flugelhornist known for his lyrical style and work in both small groups and big bands from the 1950s onward.
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B.
Thomas Parkhurst
Thomas Parkhurst was a 17th-century London bookseller and publisher known for issuing prominent Puritan and religious works.
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C.
Edward Milford
Edward Milford was a senior Australian Army officer and World War II commander who played a key leadership role in the Pacific theatre.
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D.
William Robinson Jr.
William Robinson Jr. is the birth name of Smokey Robinson, the legendary American singer, songwriter, and record producer who was a key figure in the development of Motown.
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E.
William Methwold
William Methwold is a British colonial officer and property owner in Salman Rushdie’s novel "Midnight’s Children," whose legacy and actions significantly shape the protagonist Saleem Sinai’s origins and identity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (5)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | person ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| notableFor | nuclear safety whistleblowing ⓘ |
| occupation | labor union activist ⓘ |
| partnerOf | Karen Silkwood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: William Meadows Description of subject: William Meadows was the partner of American labor union activist and nuclear safety whistleblower Karen Silkwood.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.