William Taylor
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William Taylor was an early 18th-century London bookseller and publisher best known for issuing the first edition of Daniel Defoe’s novel "Robinson Crusoe."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| William Taylor canonical | 1 |
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bookseller
ⓘ
person ⓘ publisher ⓘ |
| activeInCentury | 18th century ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Daniel Defoe
ⓘ
Robinson Crusoe ⓘ |
| basedIn |
London, England
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surface form:
London
|
| businessActivity | issuing first editions of literary works ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| era | early modern period ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
book trade
ⓘ
bookselling ⓘ publishing ⓘ |
| floruit | early 18th century ⓘ |
| genrePublished |
novels
ⓘ
prose fiction ⓘ |
| knownFor | issuing the first edition of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| notableWorkPublished | Robinson Crusoe ⓘ |
| occupation |
bookseller
ⓘ
publisher ⓘ |
| placeOfBusiness |
London, England
ⓘ
surface form:
London
|
| publishedAuthor | Daniel Defoe ⓘ |
| publishedFirstEditionOf | Robinson Crusoe ⓘ |
| residence |
London, England
ⓘ
surface form:
London
|
| workLocation |
London, England
ⓘ
surface form:
London
|
How these facts were elicited
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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 Taylor Description of subject: William Taylor was an early 18th-century London bookseller and publisher best known for issuing the first edition of Daniel Defoe’s novel "Robinson Crusoe."
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