William Taylor
E202949
William Taylor was an early 18th-century London bookseller and publisher best known for issuing the first edition of Daniel Defoe’s novel "Robinson Crusoe."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William Taylor canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1078432 — 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: William Taylor Context triple: [Robinson Crusoe, publisher, William Taylor]
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A.
William Jarrett
William Jarrett was an American physician and the late husband of former senior presidential advisor Valerie Jarrett.
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B.
Thomas Parkhurst
Thomas Parkhurst was a 17th-century London bookseller and publisher known for issuing prominent Puritan and religious works.
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C.
William Rimmer
William Rimmer was a 19th-century British-born American artist, sculptor, and influential art teacher known for his anatomically precise and imaginative figure studies.
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D.
William Strickland
William Strickland was a prominent 19th-century American architect and engineer known for pioneering the Greek Revival style in the United States.
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E.
William Belton
William Belton was the namesake of the city of Belton in Missouri, United States, likely a locally significant historical figure such as an early settler, landowner, or community leader.
- 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: William Taylor Target entity description: William Taylor was an early 18th-century London bookseller and publisher best known for issuing the first edition of Daniel Defoe’s novel "Robinson Crusoe."
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A.
William Jarrett
William Jarrett was an American physician and the late husband of former senior presidential advisor Valerie Jarrett.
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B.
Thomas Parkhurst
Thomas Parkhurst was a 17th-century London bookseller and publisher known for issuing prominent Puritan and religious works.
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C.
William Rimmer
William Rimmer was a 19th-century British-born American artist, sculptor, and influential art teacher known for his anatomically precise and imaginative figure studies.
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D.
William Strickland
William Strickland was a prominent 19th-century American architect and engineer known for pioneering the Greek Revival style in the United States.
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E.
William Belton
William Belton was the namesake of the city of Belton in Missouri, United States, likely a locally significant historical figure such as an early settler, landowner, or community leader.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bookseller
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person ⓘ publisher ⓘ |
| activeInCentury | 18th century ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Daniel Defoe
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Robinson Crusoe ⓘ |
| basedIn |
London, England
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surface form:
London
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| businessActivity | issuing first editions of literary works ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| era | early modern period ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
book trade
ⓘ
bookselling ⓘ publishing ⓘ |
| floruit | early 18th century ⓘ |
| genrePublished |
novels
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prose fiction ⓘ |
| knownFor | issuing the first edition of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| notableWorkPublished | Robinson Crusoe ⓘ |
| occupation |
bookseller
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publisher ⓘ |
| placeOfBusiness |
London, England
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surface form:
London
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| publishedAuthor | Daniel Defoe ⓘ |
| publishedFirstEditionOf | Robinson Crusoe ⓘ |
| residence |
London, England
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surface form:
London
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| workLocation |
London, England
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surface form:
London
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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: William Taylor Description of subject: William Taylor was an early 18th-century London bookseller and publisher best known for issuing the first edition of Daniel Defoe’s novel "Robinson Crusoe."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.