Margaretta Sergeant Meade
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Margaretta Sergeant Meade was the wife of Union Civil War General George Gordon Meade and a member of the prominent Sergeant family of Philadelphia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Margaretta Sergeant Meade canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5254384 — 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: Margaretta Sergeant Meade Context triple: [George G. Meade, spouse, Margaretta Sergeant Meade]
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A.
Margaretta Parker Blair
Margaretta Parker Blair was the wife of American newspaper publisher and Democratic politician James M. Cox, who served as governor of Ohio and the 1920 Democratic presidential nominee.
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B.
Margaretta Scott
Margaretta Scott was a British actress known for her work in film, theatre, and radio during the mid-20th century.
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C.
Elizabeth Cochran Seaman
Elizabeth Cochran Seaman, better known by her pen name Nellie Bly, was a pioneering American investigative journalist famed for her undercover exposés and record-setting trip around the world.
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D.
Catherine Robbins Lyman
Catherine Robbins Lyman was an American woman of New England background best known as the mother of Sara Ann Delano and thus a maternal ancestor of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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E.
Edith Wetmore
Edith Wetmore was a member of the prominent Wetmore family, known for its social standing and influence in American high society.
- 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: Margaretta Sergeant Meade Target entity description: Margaretta Sergeant Meade was the wife of Union Civil War General George Gordon Meade and a member of the prominent Sergeant family of Philadelphia.
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A.
Margaretta Parker Blair
Margaretta Parker Blair was the wife of American newspaper publisher and Democratic politician James M. Cox, who served as governor of Ohio and the 1920 Democratic presidential nominee.
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B.
Margaretta Scott
Margaretta Scott was a British actress known for her work in film, theatre, and radio during the mid-20th century.
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C.
Elizabeth Cochran Seaman
Elizabeth Cochran Seaman, better known by her pen name Nellie Bly, was a pioneering American investigative journalist famed for her undercover exposés and record-setting trip around the world.
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D.
Catherine Robbins Lyman
Catherine Robbins Lyman was an American woman of New England background best known as the mother of Sara Ann Delano and thus a maternal ancestor of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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E.
Edith Wetmore
Edith Wetmore was a member of the prominent Wetmore family, known for its social standing and influence in American high society.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| citizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White American ⓘ |
| familyName |
Meade
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sergeant NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Margaretta NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | American Civil War era NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| memberOf | Sergeant family of Philadelphia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Margaretta Sergeant Meade NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notability |
member of the Sergeant family of Philadelphia
ⓘ
wife of Union Civil War General George Gordon Meade ⓘ |
| notableRelative | George Gordon Meade NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeAssociatedWith | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Philadelphia ⓘ |
| socialStatus | member of prominent Philadelphia family ⓘ |
| spouse |
George Gordon Meade
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Margaretta Sergeant Meade NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouseAllegiance | United States (Union) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouseMilitaryBranch | Union Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouseNotableFor |
Union victory at the Battle of Gettysburg
ⓘ
commanding the Army of the Potomac ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation | Union Army general ⓘ |
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: Margaretta Sergeant Meade Description of subject: Margaretta Sergeant Meade was the wife of Union Civil War General George Gordon Meade and a member of the prominent Sergeant family of Philadelphia.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.