Monotype
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Monotype is a historic British type foundry and typesetting company renowned for producing and distributing classic typefaces used in print and digital media worldwide.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Monotype canonical | 3 |
| Monotype Corporation | 3 |
| Monotype Imaging | 3 |
| Linotype | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2634477 — 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: Monotype Context triple: [Johnston typeface, foundry, Monotype]
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Caslon
Caslon is a casual, contemporary women's clothing and footwear brand known for its comfortable basics and everyday wardrobe staples, often sold at Nordstrom.
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Johnston typeface
Johnston typeface is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed in the early 20th century by Edward Johnston, best known as the iconic lettering used across the London Underground network.
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C.
Baskerville typeface
Baskerville typeface is an 18th-century transitional serif typeface known for its high contrast, sharp serifs, and refined elegance, which significantly influenced modern typography.
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D.
Kelmscott Press
Kelmscott Press was a late 19th-century private press renowned for its beautifully crafted, medieval-inspired books that helped spark the modern fine press movement.
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E.
Didone typefaces
Didone typefaces are a class of serif typefaces characterized by strong contrast between thick and thin strokes, vertical stress, and fine hairlines, widely used in 18th–19th century printing and modern display typography.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Monotype Target entity description: Monotype is a historic British type foundry and typesetting company renowned for producing and distributing classic typefaces used in print and digital media worldwide.
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A.
Caslon
Caslon is a casual, contemporary women's clothing and footwear brand known for its comfortable basics and everyday wardrobe staples, often sold at Nordstrom.
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B.
Johnston typeface
Johnston typeface is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed in the early 20th century by Edward Johnston, best known as the iconic lettering used across the London Underground network.
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C.
Baskerville typeface
Baskerville typeface is an 18th-century transitional serif typeface known for its high contrast, sharp serifs, and refined elegance, which significantly influenced modern typography.
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D.
Kelmscott Press
Kelmscott Press was a late 19th-century private press renowned for its beautifully crafted, medieval-inspired books that helped spark the modern fine press movement.
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E.
Didone typefaces
Didone typefaces are a class of serif typefaces characterized by strong contrast between thick and thin strokes, vertical stress, and fine hairlines, widely used in 18th–19th century printing and modern display typography.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
public company
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type foundry ⓘ typesetting company ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Monotype
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surface form:
Monotype Imaging
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| areaServed | worldwide ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith |
corporate clients
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publishers ⓘ type designers ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| formerName |
Monotype
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Monotype Corporation
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| foundedBy | Tolbert Lanston ⓘ |
| foundedIn | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| hasFocus |
branding typography
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corporate typefaces ⓘ text typefaces ⓘ web fonts ⓘ |
| hasProduct |
digital fonts
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font management software ⓘ typefaces ⓘ typesetting systems ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
England
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Surrey ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ |
| historicalRole |
mechanization of typesetting
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transition to digital typography ⓘ |
| industry |
font distribution
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software ⓘ type design ⓘ typesetting ⓘ |
| notableFor |
classic typefaces
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digital font libraries ⓘ hot-metal typesetting machines ⓘ |
| operatesIn |
digital media
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print media ⓘ |
| owns |
FontShop
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Monotype self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Linotype
MyFonts ⓘ |
| publishes |
Arial
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Bembo ⓘ Century Schoolbook ⓘ Frutiger ⓘ Gill Sans ⓘ Helvetica ⓘ Palatino ⓘ Perpetua ⓘ Rockwell ⓘ Times New Roman ⓘ Univers ⓘ |
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: Monotype Description of subject: Monotype is a historic British type foundry and typesetting company renowned for producing and distributing classic typefaces used in print and digital media worldwide.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.