William Jaggard
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William Jaggard was a London printer and publisher best known for producing the 1623 First Folio of Shakespeare’s plays.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| William Jaggard canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4056059 — 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 Jaggard Context triple: [First Folio of Shakespeare, publisher, William Jaggard]
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A.
William Dewhurst
William Dewhurst was an actor known for his role in the early 20th-century film "Sabotage."
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B.
Alfred Morton Githens
Alfred Morton Githens was an American architect known for his influential designs of major public libraries and cultural institutions in the early 20th century.
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C.
Thomas Fairbairn
Thomas Fairbairn was a prominent 19th-century British industrialist and art patron known for his leading role in organizing major art exhibitions in Manchester.
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D.
W. W. Hodkinson
W. W. Hodkinson was an early American film industry pioneer known as the “Father of Film Distribution” for creating the first nationwide movie distribution system and helping establish Paramount Pictures.
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E.
Henry Stephenson
Henry Stephenson was a British character actor known for his dignified, often aristocratic roles in Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
- 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 Jaggard Target entity description: William Jaggard was a London printer and publisher best known for producing the 1623 First Folio of Shakespeare’s plays.
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A.
William Dewhurst
William Dewhurst was an actor known for his role in the early 20th-century film "Sabotage."
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B.
Alfred Morton Githens
Alfred Morton Githens was an American architect known for his influential designs of major public libraries and cultural institutions in the early 20th century.
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C.
Thomas Fairbairn
Thomas Fairbairn was a prominent 19th-century British industrialist and art patron known for his leading role in organizing major art exhibitions in Manchester.
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D.
W. W. Hodkinson
W. W. Hodkinson was an early American film industry pioneer known as the “Father of Film Distribution” for creating the first nationwide movie distribution system and helping establish Paramount Pictures.
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E.
Henry Stephenson
Henry Stephenson was a British character actor known for his dignified, often aristocratic roles in Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
person
ⓘ
printer ⓘ publisher ⓘ |
| activeInCentury |
16th century
ⓘ
17th century ⓘ |
| associatedWith | William Shakespeare ⓘ |
| basedIn |
London
ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
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| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| employer | his own printing house in London ⓘ |
| era |
Elizabethan era
ⓘ
linked to:
English Renaissance
Jacobean era ⓘ
linked to:
Stuart period
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| fieldOfWork |
book printing
ⓘ
book publishing ⓘ |
| genre | early modern English drama ⓘ |
| hasPublication |
editions of Shakespeare’s plays
ⓘ
other early modern English literary works ⓘ |
| industry |
printing industry
ⓘ
publishing industry ⓘ |
| knownFor | producing the 1623 First Folio ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | William Jaggard ⓘ |
| notableEvent | involvement in the publication of the 1623 First Folio ⓘ |
| notableFor | printing Shakespearean works ⓘ |
| notableWork |
First Folio of Shakespeare’s plays
ⓘ
linked to:
First Folio of Shakespeare
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| occupation |
printer
ⓘ
publisher ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | City of London ⓘ |
| role | producer of the 1623 First Folio of Shakespeare’s plays ⓘ |
| workLocation |
London
ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
|
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 Jaggard Description of subject: William Jaggard was a London printer and publisher best known for producing the 1623 First Folio of Shakespeare’s plays.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.