Hector Meredith
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Hector Meredith is a British intelligence officer who plays a central role in John le Carré’s espionage novel "Our Kind of Traitor."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hector Meredith canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10394186 — 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: Hector Meredith Context triple: [Our Kind of Traitor, mainCharacter, Hector Meredith]
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A.
Henry Heath
Henry Heath is a relatively obscure individual whose name is notably associated with the surname Heath.
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B.
Henry Bromell
Henry Bromell was an American writer, producer, and director best known for his work on acclaimed television dramas such as "Homeland" and "Homicide: Life on the Street."
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C.
Hugh Millard
Hugh Millard is a British diplomat who has served as Commissioner of the British Antarctic Territory.
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D.
Hector Munro
Hector Munro was an 18th-century Scottish general in the British East India Company army, best known for his decisive role in consolidating British power in India through key victories such as the Battle of Buxar.
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E.
Percy Kilbride
Percy Kilbride was an American character actor best known for playing the amiable, slow-talking Pa Kettle in a popular series of mid-20th-century comedy films.
- 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: Hector Meredith Target entity description: Hector Meredith is a British intelligence officer who plays a central role in John le Carré’s espionage novel "Our Kind of Traitor."
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A.
Henry Heath
Henry Heath is a relatively obscure individual whose name is notably associated with the surname Heath.
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B.
Henry Bromell
Henry Bromell was an American writer, producer, and director best known for his work on acclaimed television dramas such as "Homeland" and "Homicide: Life on the Street."
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C.
Hugh Millard
Hugh Millard is a British diplomat who has served as Commissioner of the British Antarctic Territory.
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D.
Hector Munro
Hector Munro was an 18th-century Scottish general in the British East India Company army, best known for his decisive role in consolidating British power in India through key victories such as the Battle of Buxar.
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E.
Percy Kilbride
Percy Kilbride was an American character actor best known for playing the amiable, slow-talking Pa Kettle in a popular series of mid-20th-century comedy films.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British intelligence officer
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fictional character ⓘ intelligence officer ⓘ |
| affiliation |
British intelligence services
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linked to:
British intelligence
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| appearsIn | Our Kind of Traitor ⓘ |
| authorOfSourceWork | John le Carré ⓘ |
| countryOfOperation | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creator | John le Carré ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Our Kind of Traitor ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkContext | espionage fiction ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkContext | English ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| occupation | intelligence officer ⓘ |
| roleInWork | central character in the novel Our Kind of Traitor ⓘ |
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: Hector Meredith Description of subject: Hector Meredith is a British intelligence officer who plays a central role in John le Carré’s espionage novel "Our Kind of Traitor."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.