Meyer family
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The Meyer family is a prominent American publishing dynasty closely associated with ownership and leadership of The Washington Post.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Meyer family canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9395098 — 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: Meyer family Context triple: [Katharine Graham, memberOf, Meyer family]
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A.
Mayers family
The Mayers family is a celebrity family best known for including rapper A$AP Rocky and singer Rihanna, along with their children.
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B.
Ostermann family
The Ostermann family was a prominent Russian noble lineage that produced influential statesmen and military leaders within the Russian Empire.
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C.
Mann family
The Mann family is a prominent German literary dynasty best known for producing influential writers such as Thomas Mann and his relatives.
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D.
Hauser family
The Hauser family is a philanthropic family known for its significant support of legal education and global academic initiatives, particularly at New York University School of Law.
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E.
Martin family
The Martin family is a central, long-running fictional family on the soap opera "All My Children," known for its multigenerational storylines and key role in the series' drama.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Meyer family Target entity description: The Meyer family is a prominent American publishing dynasty closely associated with ownership and leadership of The Washington Post.
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A.
Mayers family
The Mayers family is a celebrity family best known for including rapper A$AP Rocky and singer Rihanna, along with their children.
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B.
Ostermann family
The Ostermann family was a prominent Russian noble lineage that produced influential statesmen and military leaders within the Russian Empire.
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C.
Mann family
The Mann family is a prominent German literary dynasty best known for producing influential writers such as Thomas Mann and his relatives.
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D.
Hauser family
The Hauser family is a philanthropic family known for its significant support of legal education and global academic initiatives, particularly at New York University School of Law.
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E.
Martin family
The Martin family is a central, long-running fictional family on the soap opera "All My Children," known for its multigenerational storylines and key role in the series' drama.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American family
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financier ⓘ journalist ⓘ newspaper publisher ⓘ publishing dynasty ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
The Washington Post
ⓘ
linked to:
Washington Post
|
| city | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| ethnicOrigin | Jewish-American ⓘ |
| family |
Meyer family
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Meyer family ⓘ Meyer family ⓘ Meyer family ⓘ Meyer family ⓘ |
| formerControllingFamily | Meyer family ⓘ |
| formerOwner | Meyer family ⓘ |
| foundedMediaBusinessWith | Eugene Meyer ⓘ |
| hasNotableMember |
Donald E. Graham
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Eugene Meyer ⓘ Katharine Graham ⓘ Lally Weymouth ⓘ Philip Graham ⓘ Stephen Meyer ⓘ |
| industry | newspaper publishing ⓘ |
| notableFor |
leadership during Pentagon Papers coverage
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leadership during Watergate scandal coverage ⓘ leadership of The Washington Post ⓘ ownership of The Washington Post ⓘ |
| position |
CEO of The Washington Post Company
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chair of Federal Reserve ⓘ chairwoman of The Washington Post Company ⓘ president of World Bank ⓘ publisher of The Washington Post ⓘ publisher of The Washington Post ⓘ publisher of The Washington Post ⓘ publisher of The Washington Post ⓘ senior associate editor at The Washington Post ⓘ |
| purchased |
The Washington Post
ⓘ
linked to:
Washington Post
|
| purchaseYear | 1933 ⓘ |
| spouse | Katharine Graham ⓘ |
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: Meyer family Description of subject: The Meyer family is a prominent American publishing dynasty closely associated with ownership and leadership of The Washington Post.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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