Richard Jones
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Richard Jones was a 16th-century London printer and publisher known for issuing early editions of important Elizabethan works, including Christopher Marlowe’s "Tamburlaine."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Richard Jones canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7044031 — 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: Richard Jones Context triple: [Tamburlaine, publisher, Richard Jones]
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A.
Ian Jones
Ian Jones is an Australian screenwriter best known for co-writing the acclaimed Indigenous-themed film "Ten Canoes."
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B.
Simon Jones
Simon Jones is a British actor best known for playing Arthur Dent in the original radio and television adaptations of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
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C.
Peter Jones
Peter Jones is a British entrepreneur, investor, and television personality best known as a long-standing "dragon" on the BBC series Dragons' Den.
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D.
Peter Jones
Peter Jones is a well-known John Lewis department store located on Sloane Square in London, recognized for its wide range of quality goods and prominent position in the Chelsea shopping district.
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E.
Peter Jones
Peter Jones was a British actor and comedian best known for his distinctive voice work, including as the narrator in the original radio series of "The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy."
- 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: Richard Jones Target entity description: Richard Jones was a 16th-century London printer and publisher known for issuing early editions of important Elizabethan works, including Christopher Marlowe’s "Tamburlaine."
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A.
Ian Jones
Ian Jones is an Australian screenwriter best known for co-writing the acclaimed Indigenous-themed film "Ten Canoes."
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B.
Simon Jones
Simon Jones is a British actor best known for playing Arthur Dent in the original radio and television adaptations of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
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C.
Peter Jones
Peter Jones is a well-known John Lewis department store located on Sloane Square in London, recognized for its wide range of quality goods and prominent position in the Chelsea shopping district.
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D.
Peter Jones
Peter Jones is a British entrepreneur, investor, and television personality best known as a long-standing "dragon" on the BBC series Dragons' Den.
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E.
Peter Jones
Peter Jones was a British actor and comedian best known for his distinctive voice work, including as the narrator in the original radio series of "The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
person
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printer ⓘ publisher ⓘ |
| activeInCentury | 16th century ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | Elizabethan era NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Christopher Marlowe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn | London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| era | Elizabethan literature NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
book printing
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publishing ⓘ |
| floruit | 16th century ⓘ |
| genreSpecialization | Elizabethan drama ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
printing early editions of Elizabethan works
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publishing early editions of Elizabethan works ⓘ |
| notableWork | early edition of Christopher Marlowe’s "Tamburlaine" ⓘ |
| occupation |
printer
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publisher ⓘ |
| partOf |
Elizabethan printing industry
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London book trade NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| printedGenre |
literary works
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plays ⓘ |
| printedIn | London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| printedWork | "Tamburlaine" by Christopher Marlowe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| 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: Richard Jones Description of subject: Richard Jones was a 16th-century London printer and publisher known for issuing early editions of important Elizabethan works, including Christopher Marlowe’s "Tamburlaine."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.