Merilyn Steed
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Merilyn Steed is one of the wives of Warren Jeffs, the imprisoned leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS).
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Merilyn Steed canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9625981 — 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: Merilyn Steed Context triple: [Warren Jeffs, parent, Merilyn Steed]
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A.
Beryl Reid
Beryl Reid was a British actress renowned for her versatile comic and dramatic performances on stage, film, radio, and television, particularly in mid-20th-century Britain.
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B.
Joan Hurst
Joan Hurst was an Englishwoman of the early 17th century best known as the mother of Mayflower passenger Elizabeth Tilley.
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C.
Meryl Swanson
Meryl Swanson is an Australian politician and member of the House of Representatives for the Labor Party.
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D.
Beryl Mercer
Beryl Mercer was a British-born character actress known for her maternal and supporting roles in early 20th-century stage and Hollywood films.
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E.
Barbara Trentham
Barbara Trentham was an American model and actress who later became a painter, known in part for her marriage to British comedian John Cleese.
- 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: Merilyn Steed Target entity description: Merilyn Steed is one of the wives of Warren Jeffs, the imprisoned leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS).
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A.
Beryl Reid
Beryl Reid was a British actress renowned for her versatile comic and dramatic performances on stage, film, radio, and television, particularly in mid-20th-century Britain.
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B.
Joan Hurst
Joan Hurst was an Englishwoman of the early 17th century best known as the mother of Mayflower passenger Elizabeth Tilley.
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C.
Meryl Swanson
Meryl Swanson is an Australian politician and member of the House of Representatives for the Labor Party.
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D.
Beryl Mercer
Beryl Mercer was a British-born character actress known for her maternal and supporting roles in early 20th-century stage and Hollywood films.
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E.
Barbara Trentham
Barbara Trentham was an American model and actress who later became a painter, known in part for her marriage to British comedian John Cleese.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (8)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | person ⓘ |
| memberOf | Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints ⓘ |
| religion | Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints ⓘ |
| spouseCriminalStatus | imprisoned ⓘ |
| spouseName | Warren Jeffs ⓘ |
| spouseNotableFor | leadership of the FLDS Church ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation | religious leader ⓘ |
| spouseOf | Warren Jeffs ⓘ |
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: Merilyn Steed Description of subject: Merilyn Steed is one of the wives of Warren Jeffs, the imprisoned leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS).
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.