Marty Meehan
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Marty Meehan is an American academic administrator and former U.S. congressman who serves as president of the University of Massachusetts system.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Marty Meehan canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6868597 — 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: Marty Meehan Context triple: [University of Massachusetts system, hasPresident, Marty Meehan]
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A.
Thomas Meehan
Thomas Meehan was an American playwright and librettist best known for writing the books for hit Broadway musicals such as Annie, The Producers, and Hairspray.
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B.
John Meehan
John Meehan was an American screenwriter known for his work on early- to mid-20th-century Hollywood films, including notable dramas and comedies.
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C.
John Meehan
John Meehan is the real-life conman and serial predator whose story inspired the podcast and TV series "Dirty John," in which he is portrayed by Eric Bana.
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D.
Kevin J. O'Connor
Kevin J. O'Connor is an American character actor known for his eccentric and memorable supporting roles in films such as "There Will Be Blood" and "The Mummy."
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E.
Patrick Eagan
Patrick Eagan was an early Irish immigrant settler and local political figure after whom the city of Eagan, Minnesota, is named.
- 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: Marty Meehan Target entity description: Marty Meehan is an American academic administrator and former U.S. congressman who serves as president of the University of Massachusetts system.
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A.
Thomas Meehan
Thomas Meehan was an American playwright and librettist best known for writing the books for hit Broadway musicals such as Annie, The Producers, and Hairspray.
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B.
John Meehan
John Meehan was an American screenwriter known for his work on early- to mid-20th-century Hollywood films, including notable dramas and comedies.
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C.
John Meehan
John Meehan is the real-life conman and serial predator whose story inspired the podcast and TV series "Dirty John," in which he is portrayed by Eric Bana.
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D.
Kevin J. O'Connor
Kevin J. O'Connor is an American character actor known for his eccentric and memorable supporting roles in films such as "There Will Be Blood" and "The Mummy."
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E.
Patrick Eagan
Patrick Eagan was an early Irish immigrant settler and local political figure after whom the city of Eagan, Minnesota, is named.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic administrator
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human ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Lowell, Massachusetts, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1956-12-30 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Suffolk University
NERFINISHED
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Suffolk University Law School NERFINISHED ⓘ University of Massachusetts Lowell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
University of Massachusetts Lowell
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
University of Massachusetts system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Meehan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
higher education administration
ⓘ
public policy ⓘ |
| givenName | Martin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasJurisdiction | University of Massachusetts system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Democratic Party
ⓘ
surface form:
Democratic Party (United States)
|
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| nickname | Marty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
serving as U.S. representative from Massachusetts
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serving as president of the University of Massachusetts system ⓘ |
| occupation |
lawyer
ⓘ
member of the United States House of Representatives ⓘ professor ⓘ university president ⓘ |
| officeEndTime | 2007 ⓘ |
| officeStartTime | 1993 ⓘ |
| partyAffiliation | Democratic Party (United States) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
United States representative
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Lowell ⓘ president of the University of Massachusetts system ⓘ |
| represented | Massachusetts's 5th congressional district NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Massachusetts ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Ellen Murphy Meehan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation | Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Marty Meehan Description of subject: Marty Meehan is an American academic administrator and former U.S. congressman who serves as president of the University of Massachusetts system.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.