John Taylor
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John Taylor was the father of the English mathematician Brook Taylor, known for his work in calculus and the Taylor series.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Taylor canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12761575 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Taylor Context triple: [Brook Taylor, hasFather, John Taylor]
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John Taylor
John Taylor is a former San Francisco 49ers wide receiver best known for catching Joe Montana’s game-winning touchdown pass in Super Bowl XXIII.
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John Taylor
John Taylor was an American statesman from South Carolina who served as a delegate to the Continental Congress during the Revolutionary era.
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John Taylor
John Taylor was the husband of philosopher and women's rights advocate Harriet Taylor Mill, known primarily in relation to her life and intellectual circle.
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John Taylor
John Taylor was an American politician and political philosopher from Virginia, known for his strong advocacy of states’ rights and agrarian republicanism in the early United States.
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John Taylor
John Taylor was an early 20th-century baseball executive best known for establishing and running the Negro league team Indianapolis ABCs.
- 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: John Taylor Target entity description: John Taylor was the father of the English mathematician Brook Taylor, known for his work in calculus and the Taylor series.
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John Taylor
John Taylor was the husband of philosopher and women's rights advocate Harriet Taylor Mill, known primarily in relation to her life and intellectual circle.
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John Taylor
John Taylor was an American statesman from South Carolina who served as a delegate to the Continental Congress during the Revolutionary era.
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John Taylor
John Taylor is a notable alumnus of Sedbergh School, an English independent boarding school known for producing distinguished figures in various fields.
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John Taylor
John Taylor was an American politician and political philosopher from Virginia, known for his strong advocacy of states’ rights and agrarian republicanism in the early United States.
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John Taylor
John Taylor was the third president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and a prominent 19th-century Mormon leader.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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human ⓘ |
| child | Brook Taylor ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Kingdom of Great Britain
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Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
calculus
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mathematics ⓘ |
| notableWork | Taylor series ⓘ |
| occupation | mathematician ⓘ |
| parent | John Taylor ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: John Taylor Description of subject: John Taylor was the father of the English mathematician Brook Taylor, known for his work in calculus and the Taylor series.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
John Taylor