Richard Grafton
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Richard Grafton was a 16th-century English printer and publisher best known for producing early English Bibles and serving as the king’s printer under Edward VI.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Richard Grafton canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T815116 — 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 Grafton Context triple: [Matthew Bible, publisher, Richard Grafton]
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A.
Paul Dudley
Paul Dudley was a prominent early 18th-century Massachusetts jurist and attorney general known for his influential role in the legal and political life of colonial New England.
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B.
Robert Estienne
Robert Estienne was a 16th-century French printer and classical scholar renowned for his critical editions of the Bible and major contributions to typography and lexicography.
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C.
John Baskerville
John Baskerville was an 18th-century English printer and typographer renowned for his high-quality book production and the influential Baskerville typeface.
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D.
Charles Filiger
Charles Filiger was a French Post-Impressionist painter associated with the Pont-Aven School, known for his symbolist, cloisonnist landscapes and religious works.
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E.
John Flaxman
John Flaxman was an influential English sculptor and draughtsman whose elegant linear style and classical themes made him a leading figure of the Neoclassical movement in late 18th- and early 19th-century art.
- 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 Grafton Target entity description: Richard Grafton was a 16th-century English printer and publisher best known for producing early English Bibles and serving as the king’s printer under Edward VI.
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A.
Paul Dudley
Paul Dudley was a prominent early 18th-century Massachusetts jurist and attorney general known for his influential role in the legal and political life of colonial New England.
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B.
Robert Estienne
Robert Estienne was a 16th-century French printer and classical scholar renowned for his critical editions of the Bible and major contributions to typography and lexicography.
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C.
John Baskerville
John Baskerville was an 18th-century English printer and typographer renowned for his high-quality book production and the influential Baskerville typeface.
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D.
Charles Filiger
Charles Filiger was a French Post-Impressionist painter associated with the Pont-Aven School, known for his symbolist, cloisonnist landscapes and religious works.
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E.
John Flaxman
John Flaxman was an influential English sculptor and draughtsman whose elegant linear style and classical themes made him a leading figure of the Neoclassical movement in late 18th- and early 19th-century art.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
16th-century printer
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English printer ⓘ person ⓘ printer ⓘ publisher ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| employer | Edward VI of England ⓘ |
| era |
Tudor dynasty
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surface form:
Tudor period
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| fieldOfWork |
printing
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publishing ⓘ |
| genre |
Bibles
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religious texts ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
producing early English Bibles
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serving as the king’s printer under Edward VI ⓘ |
| notableWork | early English Bibles ⓘ |
| occupation |
printer
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publisher ⓘ royal printer ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
His Majesty's Stationery Office
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surface form:
King’s Printer
King’s Printer to Edward VI ⓘ |
| residence | England ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workPeriod | 16th century ⓘ |
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 Grafton Description of subject: Richard Grafton was a 16th-century English printer and publisher best known for producing early English Bibles and serving as the king’s printer under Edward VI.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.