William Collins
E118095
William Collins was a Scottish publisher and founder of the notable publishing house William Collins, Sons, which later became part of HarperCollins.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| William Collins canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1006443 — 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.
Target entity: William Collins Context triple: [William Collins, Sons, foundedBy, William Collins]
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Robert Southey
Robert Southey was an English Romantic poet, biographer, and historian who served as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1813 to 1843.
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Robert Fergusson
Robert Fergusson was an 18th-century Scottish poet whose vivid vernacular verse and depictions of Edinburgh life strongly influenced later writers, including Robert Burns.
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C.
Thomas Gray
Thomas Gray was an 18th-century English poet and scholar best known for his meditative poem "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard."
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D.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English Romantic poet, critic, and philosopher best known for works such as "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and "Kubla Khan."
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E.
Edward Bishop
Edward Bishop was a 17th-century New England resident known primarily as the husband of Bridget Bishop, the first person executed during the Salem witch trials.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: William Collins Target entity description: William Collins was a Scottish publisher and founder of the notable publishing house William Collins, Sons, which later became part of HarperCollins.
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A.
Robert Southey
Robert Southey was an English Romantic poet, biographer, and historian who served as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1813 to 1843.
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B.
Robert Fergusson
Robert Fergusson was an 18th-century Scottish poet whose vivid vernacular verse and depictions of Edinburgh life strongly influenced later writers, including Robert Burns.
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C.
Thomas Gray
Thomas Gray was an 18th-century English poet and scholar best known for his meditative poem "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard."
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D.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English Romantic poet, critic, and philosopher best known for works such as "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and "Kubla Khan."
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E.
Edward Bishop
Edward Bishop was a 17th-century New England resident known primarily as the husband of Bridget Bishop, the first person executed during the Salem witch trials.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
businessperson
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founder ⓘ publisher ⓘ publishing company ⓘ publishing house ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Scotland
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
Scotland
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | publishing ⓘ |
| foundedBy | William Collins self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| hasPart | William Collins, Sons ⓘ |
| hasPredecessor | William Collins, Sons ⓘ |
| industry |
Bible publishing
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book publishing ⓘ book publishing ⓘ |
| knownFor | founding the publishing house William Collins, Sons ⓘ |
| languageOfPublication | English ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableAssociatedOrganization |
HarperCollins
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William Collins, Sons ⓘ |
| notableWork | William Collins, Sons ⓘ |
| occupation | publisher ⓘ |
| parentOrganization |
News Corporation
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surface form:
News Corp
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| partOf | HarperCollins ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: William Collins Description of subject: William Collins was a Scottish publisher and founder of the notable publishing house William Collins, Sons, which later became part of HarperCollins.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.