Edwin T. Meredith
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Edwin T. Meredith was an American publisher and politician who served as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture under President Woodrow Wilson.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Edwin T. Meredith canonical | 2 |
| Edwin A. Meredith | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1507786 — 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: Edwin T. Meredith Context triple: [Henry Cantwell Wallace, precededBy, Edwin T. Meredith]
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A.
Edwin C. Whitehead
Edwin C. Whitehead was an American businessman and philanthropist best known for founding the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and supporting advances in life sciences.
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B.
Henry W. Gerrard
Henry W. Gerrard was an American cinematographer active in early 20th-century Hollywood, known for his work on classic genre films.
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C.
Edmund G. Ross
Edmund G. Ross was a 19th-century U.S. senator from Kansas best known for casting the decisive vote against the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson, an act later celebrated in John F. Kennedy’s "Profiles in Courage."
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D.
Harry M. Wegeforth
Harry M. Wegeforth was an American physician and civic leader best known for establishing and guiding the early development of the San Diego Zoo into a major zoological institution.
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E.
James T. Grady
James T. Grady was a prominent science journalist and communicator known for his influential work in making chemistry and scientific topics accessible to the general public.
- 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: Edwin T. Meredith Target entity description: Edwin T. Meredith was an American publisher and politician who served as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture under President Woodrow Wilson.
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A.
Edwin C. Whitehead
Edwin C. Whitehead was an American businessman and philanthropist best known for founding the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and supporting advances in life sciences.
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B.
Henry W. Gerrard
Henry W. Gerrard was an American cinematographer active in early 20th-century Hollywood, known for his work on classic genre films.
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C.
Edmund G. Ross
Edmund G. Ross was a 19th-century U.S. senator from Kansas best known for casting the decisive vote against the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson, an act later celebrated in John F. Kennedy’s "Profiles in Courage."
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D.
Harry M. Wegeforth
Harry M. Wegeforth was an American physician and civic leader best known for establishing and guiding the early development of the San Diego Zoo into a major zoological institution.
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E.
James T. Grady
James T. Grady was a prominent science journalist and communicator known for his influential work in making chemistry and scientific topics accessible to the general public.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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politician ⓘ publisher ⓘ |
| appointedBy | Woodrow Wilson ⓘ |
| areaOfInfluence |
American home and lifestyle publishing
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United States agriculture policy ⓘ |
| basedIn | Des Moines, Iowa ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Highland Park College ⓘ |
| employer |
U.S. federal government
ⓘ
linked to:
United States government
|
| familyName | Meredith ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
agricultural publishing
ⓘ
agriculture policy ⓘ magazine publishing ⓘ |
| founded |
Meredith Corporation
ⓘ
Successful Farming (magazine) ⓘ
linked to:
Successful Farming
|
| genre | farm journalism ⓘ |
| givenName | Edwin ⓘ |
| hasHonorificTitle | Secretary ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty |
Democratic Party (United States)
ⓘ
linked to:
Democratic Party
|
| name | Edwin T. Meredith ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
Expanded circulation of Successful Farming magazine nationally
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Helped develop Better Homes and Gardens into a major U.S. magazine ⓘ |
| notableEmployer | Meredith Corporation ⓘ |
| notableFor |
leadership in American magazine publishing
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service as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture ⓘ |
| notableRole | Cabinet member in the administration of Woodrow Wilson ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Better Homes and Gardens (magazine)
ⓘ
linked to:
Better Homes and Gardens
Successful Farming (magazine) ⓘ
linked to:
Successful Farming
|
| occupation |
politician
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publisher ⓘ |
| officeContested | Governor of Iowa ⓘ |
| partOf | Cabinet of the United States ⓘ |
| positionHeld | United States Secretary of Agriculture ⓘ |
| residence | Des Moines, Iowa ⓘ |
| sector |
media industry
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public administration ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Des Moines, Iowa
ⓘ
Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
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: Edwin T. Meredith Description of subject: Edwin T. Meredith was an American publisher and politician who served as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture under President Woodrow Wilson.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Edwin T. Meredith