Mead
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English-language surname
cultural anthropologist
historian of religion
person
philosopher
physician
sociologist
surname
Mead is a common English surname borne by various notable individuals, including the influential cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mead canonical | 11 |
| Larkin Goldsmith Mead | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T625011 — 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: Mead Context triple: [Margaret Mead, familyName, Mead]
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A.
Brandy
Brandy is an American R&B singer, songwriter, and actress known for her distinctive vocal style and hits such as "The Boy Is Mine" and "Have You Ever?".
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B.
Champagne
Champagne is a renowned wine-producing region in northeastern France famous for its sparkling wines made primarily from Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, and Pinot Meunier grapes.
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C.
Rum
Rum is a rugged, sparsely populated island in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland, known for its dramatic mountain scenery, wildlife, and status as a National Nature Reserve.
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D.
Riesling
Riesling is a highly aromatic white wine grape variety known for its vibrant acidity and floral, citrus, and stone-fruit characteristics, used to produce wines ranging from bone-dry to lusciously sweet.
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E.
Marsala
Marsala is a coastal city in western Sicily, Italy, best known for producing the fortified wine that shares its name.
- 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: Mead Target entity description: Mead is a common English surname borne by various notable individuals, including the influential cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead.
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A.
Brandy
Brandy is an American R&B singer, songwriter, and actress known for her distinctive vocal style and hits such as "The Boy Is Mine" and "Have You Ever?".
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B.
Champagne
Champagne is a renowned wine-producing region in northeastern France famous for its sparkling wines made primarily from Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, and Pinot Meunier grapes.
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C.
Rum
Rum is a rugged, sparsely populated island in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland, known for its dramatic mountain scenery, wildlife, and status as a National Nature Reserve.
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D.
Riesling
Riesling is a highly aromatic white wine grape variety known for its vibrant acidity and floral, citrus, and stone-fruit characteristics, used to produce wines ranging from bone-dry to lusciously sweet.
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E.
Marsala
Marsala is a coastal city in western Sicily, Italy, best known for producing the fortified wine that shares its name.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Mead Description of subject: Mead is a common English surname borne by various notable individuals, including the influential cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Larkin Goldsmith Mead
subject surface form:
Margaret Mead
subject surface form:
George Herbert Mead
subject surface form:
Sydney M. Mead
subject surface form:
Richard Mead