Meredith Corporation
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Meredith Corporation was a major American media and marketing company best known for its portfolio of lifestyle magazines and television broadcasting assets.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Meredith Corporation canonical | 28 |
| Meredith Corporation (historical headquarters, now part of Dotdash Meredith) | 1 |
| Meredith Corporation consumer media portfolio | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T40620 — 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: Meredith Corporation Context triple: [Time Inc., acquiredBy, Meredith Corporation]
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A.
Kraft Group
Kraft Group is a privately held American conglomerate best known for its ownership of major New England sports franchises and extensive interests in paper, packaging, real estate, and private equity.
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B.
GlaxoSmithKline
GlaxoSmithKline is a global biopharmaceutical company known for developing and manufacturing prescription medicines, vaccines, and consumer healthcare products.
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C.
PlumpJack Group
PlumpJack Group is a hospitality and lifestyle company known for its wineries, hotels, restaurants, and retail businesses, originally launched in San Francisco.
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D.
Atlantic Media
Atlantic Media is an American media company best known for owning and operating influential publications such as The Atlantic.
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E.
Delaware North
Delaware North is a global hospitality and food service company known for operating concessions, lodging, and venues at major sports stadiums, airports, and entertainment destinations.
- 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: Meredith Corporation Target entity description: Meredith Corporation was a major American media and marketing company best known for its portfolio of lifestyle magazines and television broadcasting assets.
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A.
Kraft Group
Kraft Group is a privately held American conglomerate best known for its ownership of major New England sports franchises and extensive interests in paper, packaging, real estate, and private equity.
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B.
GlaxoSmithKline
GlaxoSmithKline is a global biopharmaceutical company known for developing and manufacturing prescription medicines, vaccines, and consumer healthcare products.
-
C.
PlumpJack Group
PlumpJack Group is a hospitality and lifestyle company known for its wineries, hotels, restaurants, and retail businesses, originally launched in San Francisco.
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D.
Atlantic Media
Atlantic Media is an American media company best known for owning and operating influential publications such as The Atlantic.
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E.
Delaware North
Delaware North is a global hospitality and food service company known for operating concessions, lodging, and venues at major sports stadiums, airports, and entertainment destinations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
marketing company
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media company ⓘ publishing company ⓘ |
| acquired | Time Inc. ⓘ |
| acquiredBy |
Dotdash Meredith
ⓘ
surface form:
Dotdash (IAC subsidiary)
IAC ⓘ |
| acquisitionDate |
2018
ⓘ
2021 ⓘ |
| businessDivision |
Local Media Group
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National Media Group ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| dissolutionDate | 2021 ⓘ |
| focusesOn | women’s lifestyle media ⓘ |
| foundedAs | publisher of Successful Farming magazine ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Edwin Thomas Meredith ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Des Moines, Iowa
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| inception | 1902 ⓘ |
| industry |
broadcasting
ⓘ
magazine publishing ⓘ marketing services ⓘ mass media ⓘ |
| listedOn | New York Stock Exchange ⓘ |
| notableBrand |
Parents (magazine)
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Shape (magazine) ⓘ Southern Living (through Time Inc. acquisition) ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Allrecipes
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Better Homes and Gardens ⓘ InStyle ⓘ Martha Stewart Living (publishing under license) ⓘ People (magazine) ⓘ Real Simple ⓘ Successful Farming ⓘ |
| operated |
broadcast television duopolies in certain U.S. markets
ⓘ
local television stations in the United States ⓘ |
| owns |
Allrecipes
ⓘ
surface form:
Allrecipes (brand)
Better Homes and Gardens ⓘ
surface form:
Better Homes and Gardens (magazine brand)
|
| saleDate | 2021 ⓘ |
| sold | local television stations to Gray Television ⓘ |
| specializesIn |
entertainment and celebrity content
ⓘ
food and cooking content ⓘ health and wellness content ⓘ home and garden content ⓘ lifestyle content ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
| successor | Dotdash Meredith ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol | MDP ⓘ |
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: Meredith Corporation Description of subject: Meredith Corporation was a major American media and marketing company best known for its portfolio of lifestyle magazines and television broadcasting assets.
Referenced by (30)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Entertainment Weekly
subject surface form:
People
subject surface form:
Fortune
this entity surface form:
Meredith Corporation (historical headquarters, now part of Dotdash Meredith)
People (after acquisition of Time Inc. assets)
→
parentCompanyAtStartOfPeriod
→
Meredith Corporation
ⓘ
this entity surface form:
Meredith Corporation consumer media portfolio
subject surface form:
People