Samuel Penfield Taylor
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Samuel Penfield Taylor was a 19th-century American entrepreneur and paper mill owner in California whose legacy is commemorated by the state park that bears his name.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Samuel Penfield Taylor canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7126817 — 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: Samuel Penfield Taylor Context triple: [Samuel P. Taylor State Park, namedAfter, Samuel Penfield Taylor]
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A.
Francis Lenn Taylor
Francis Lenn Taylor was an American art dealer best known as the father of iconic actress Elizabeth Taylor.
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B.
A. M. Taylor
A. M. Taylor is a physicist known for contributing to the influential optics textbook "Principles of Optics."
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C.
Samuel Lane Loomis
Samuel Lane Loomis was an American Congregational minister, educator, and author active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
Gustavus W. Smith
Gustavus W. Smith was a Confederate major general and briefly acting commander of the Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War.
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E.
J.H. Taylor
J.H. Taylor was a pioneering English professional golfer and multiple Open Championship winner who helped shape the early development of modern golf.
- 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: Samuel Penfield Taylor Target entity description: Samuel Penfield Taylor was a 19th-century American entrepreneur and paper mill owner in California whose legacy is commemorated by the state park that bears his name.
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A.
Francis Lenn Taylor
Francis Lenn Taylor was an American art dealer best known as the father of iconic actress Elizabeth Taylor.
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B.
A. M. Taylor
A. M. Taylor is a physicist known for contributing to the influential optics textbook "Principles of Optics."
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C.
Samuel Lane Loomis
Samuel Lane Loomis was an American Congregational minister, educator, and author active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
Gustavus W. Smith
Gustavus W. Smith was a Confederate major general and briefly acting commander of the Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War.
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E.
J.H. Taylor
J.H. Taylor was a pioneering English professional golfer and multiple Open Championship winner who helped shape the early development of modern golf.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
19th-century American businessperson
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entrepreneur ⓘ human ⓘ paper mill owner ⓘ |
| commemoratedBy | Samuel P. Taylor State Park ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| era | 19th century ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | American ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
industrial development in California
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paper production ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasPartInHisLegacy | Samuel P. Taylor State Park ⓘ |
| industry |
manufacturing
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paper industry ⓘ |
| influenced | development of paper manufacturing in California ⓘ |
| knownAs | Samuel P. Taylor ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Samuel Penfield Taylor ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being namesake of Samuel P. Taylor State Park
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establishing a paper mill in Marin County, California ⓘ |
| notablePlaceAssociatedWith | Samuel P. Taylor State Park ⓘ |
| occupation |
entrepreneur
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mill owner ⓘ paper manufacturer ⓘ |
| placeOfBusiness |
California
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linked to:
California, United States
Marin County, California ⓘ
linked to:
Marin County
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| residence |
California
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linked to:
California, United States
Marin County, California ⓘ
linked to:
Marin County
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| workLocation |
California
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linked to:
California, United States
Marin County, California ⓘ
linked to:
Marin County
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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: Samuel Penfield Taylor Description of subject: Samuel Penfield Taylor was a 19th-century American entrepreneur and paper mill owner in California whose legacy is commemorated by the state park that bears his name.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Samuel Penfield Taylor