Meads
E251488
Meads is a surname most notably associated with New Zealand rugby legend Colin Meads.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Meads canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2264565 — 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: Meads Context triple: [Colin Meads, familyName, Meads]
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A.
Myal
Myal is an Afro-Caribbean spiritual tradition originating among enslaved Africans in Jamaica, characterized by spirit possession, healing rituals, and resistance to oppression.
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B.
Keills
Keills is a small village on the Scottish island of Islay, known for its rural coastal setting within the Inner Hebrides.
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C.
Hallidie
Hallidie is a surname most notably associated with Andrew Smith Hallidie, the 19th-century engineer credited with pioneering San Francisco’s cable car system.
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D.
Bluets
Bluets is a lyrical, genre-defying book by Maggie Nelson that blends memoir, philosophy, and poetic meditation through an obsessive focus on the color blue.
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E.
Cailliau
Cailliau is the surname of Robert Cailliau, a Belgian computer scientist known for co-developing the World Wide Web.
- 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: Meads Target entity description: Meads is a surname most notably associated with New Zealand rugby legend Colin Meads.
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A.
Myal
Myal is an Afro-Caribbean spiritual tradition originating among enslaved Africans in Jamaica, characterized by spirit possession, healing rituals, and resistance to oppression.
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B.
Keills
Keills is a small village on the Scottish island of Islay, known for its rural coastal setting within the Inner Hebrides.
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C.
Hallidie
Hallidie is a surname most notably associated with Andrew Smith Hallidie, the 19th-century engineer credited with pioneering San Francisco’s cable car system.
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D.
Bluets
Bluets is a lyrical, genre-defying book by Maggie Nelson that blends memoir, philosophy, and poetic meditation through an obsessive focus on the color blue.
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E.
Cailliau
Cailliau is the surname of Robert Cailliau, a Belgian computer scientist known for co-developing the World Wide Web.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family name
ⓘ
person ⓘ person ⓘ rugby union player ⓘ rugby union player ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
New Zealand
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New Zealand ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1936-06-03 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2017-08-20 ⓘ |
| familyName |
Meads
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Meads ⓘ |
| givenName | Colin ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Colin Meads
ⓘ
Stan Meads ⓘ |
| hasSibling | Stan Meads ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Mead
ⓘ
Meade ⓘ |
| isConsidered | one of the greatest rugby union players of all time ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam |
New Zealand national rugby union team
ⓘ
New Zealand national rugby union team ⓘ |
| nickname | Pinetree ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Cambridge, New Zealand ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Te Kuiti, New Zealand ⓘ |
| playedForClub | King Country ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | lock ⓘ |
| sport | rugby union ⓘ |
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: Meads Description of subject: Meads is a surname most notably associated with New Zealand rugby legend Colin Meads.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.