Meredith Hunter
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Meredith Hunter was an 18-year-old concertgoer whose killing by a Hells Angels member during The Rolling Stones’ 1969 Altamont Free Concert became a notorious symbol of the dark turn of the 1960s counterculture.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Meredith Hunter canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9429154 — 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: Meredith Hunter Context triple: [Altamont Free Concert, fatalitiesIncluded, Meredith Hunter]
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A.
Meredith Blake
Meredith Blake is the glamorous, gold-digging fiancée of Nick Parker and primary antagonist in the 1998 film "The Parent Trap."
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B.
Meredith Vickers
Meredith Vickers is a cold, authoritative Weyland Corporation executive who oversees the Prometheus mission in the 2012 science fiction film "Prometheus."
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C.
Meredith Brown
Meredith Brown is a fictional character known as the sister of Velvet Brown in Enid Bagnold’s novel "National Velvet."
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D.
Meredith Black
Meredith Black is the troubled protagonist of the film "The Beaver," whose severe depression leads her husband to communicate through a beaver hand puppet as an unconventional coping mechanism.
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E.
Meredith Black
Meredith Black is a fictional character known primarily as the wife of Walter Black in the 2011 film "The Beaver."
- 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: Meredith Hunter Target entity description: Meredith Hunter was an 18-year-old concertgoer whose killing by a Hells Angels member during The Rolling Stones’ 1969 Altamont Free Concert became a notorious symbol of the dark turn of the 1960s counterculture.
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A.
Meredith Blake
Meredith Blake is the glamorous, gold-digging fiancée of Nick Parker and primary antagonist in the 1998 film "The Parent Trap."
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B.
Meredith Vickers
Meredith Vickers is a cold, authoritative Weyland Corporation executive who oversees the Prometheus mission in the 2012 science fiction film "Prometheus."
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C.
Meredith Brown
Meredith Brown is a fictional character known as the sister of Velvet Brown in Enid Bagnold’s novel "National Velvet."
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D.
Meredith Black
Meredith Black is the troubled protagonist of the film "The Beaver," whose severe depression leads her husband to communicate through a beaver hand puppet as an unconventional coping mechanism.
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E.
Meredith Black
Meredith Black is a fictional character known primarily as the wife of Walter Black in the 2011 film "The Beaver."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
concertgoer
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| ageAtDeath | 18 ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Altamont Free Concert
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Rolling Stones NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | stabbing ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1951 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1969-12-06 ⓘ |
| depictedIn | Gimme Shelter (1970 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Black Americans
ⓘ
surface form:
African American
|
| eventDate | 1969-12-06 ⓘ |
| eventLocation | Altamont Speedway, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Hunter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Meredith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasContext |
1960s counterculture in the United States
ⓘ
rock music history ⓘ |
| hasOccupation | student ⓘ |
| killedAt | Altamont Free Concert NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| killedBy | Hells Angels member ⓘ |
| killedByOrganization | Hells Angels Motorcycle Club NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| killedDuring | The Rolling Stones concert at Altamont ⓘ |
| knownFor | being killed at the 1969 Altamont Free Concert ⓘ |
| legacy |
cautionary tale in rock festival history
ⓘ
example of concert security failures ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | homicide ⓘ |
| name | Meredith Hunter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent | killing at Altamont Free Concert ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Altamont Speedway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
books about the 1960s counterculture
ⓘ
news coverage of Altamont Free Concert ⓘ |
| symbolOf |
dark turn of the 1960s counterculture
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end of the 1960s idealism ⓘ |
| yearOfEvent | 1969 ⓘ |
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: Meredith Hunter Description of subject: Meredith Hunter was an 18-year-old concertgoer whose killing by a Hells Angels member during The Rolling Stones’ 1969 Altamont Free Concert became a notorious symbol of the dark turn of the 1960s counterculture.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.