William Samuel Paley
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William Samuel Paley was an American broadcasting executive who built CBS into one of the dominant radio and television networks of the 20th century.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| William Samuel Paley canonical | 2 |
| William Paley | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1944185 — 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.
Target entity: William Samuel Paley Context triple: [William S. Paley, fullName, William Samuel Paley]
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Richard Bentley
Richard Bentley was a prominent 19th-century British publisher and bookseller known for issuing major literary works by authors such as Charles Dickens and Herman Melville.
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Richard Bentley
Richard Bentley was an 18th-century English designer and illustrator closely associated with Horace Walpole, known for helping develop the early Gothic Revival style seen at Strawberry Hill.
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David Hartley
David Hartley was an 18th-century English philosopher and physician best known for developing the psychological theory of associationism, which significantly shaped later thinkers such as Joseph Priestley.
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David Hartley
David Hartley was an 18th-century British politician and diplomat best known for representing Britain in negotiating and signing the 1783 Treaty of Paris that ended the American Revolutionary War.
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Samuel Clarke
Samuel Clarke was an 18th-century English philosopher and Anglican clergyman known for his influential works on natural religion, metaphysics, and Newtonian theology.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: William Samuel Paley Target entity description: William Samuel Paley was an American broadcasting executive who built CBS into one of the dominant radio and television networks of the 20th century.
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A.
Richard Bentley
Richard Bentley was a prominent 19th-century British publisher and bookseller known for issuing major literary works by authors such as Charles Dickens and Herman Melville.
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B.
Richard Bentley
Richard Bentley was an 18th-century English designer and illustrator closely associated with Horace Walpole, known for helping develop the early Gothic Revival style seen at Strawberry Hill.
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C.
David Hartley
David Hartley was an 18th-century English philosopher and physician best known for developing the psychological theory of associationism, which significantly shaped later thinkers such as Joseph Priestley.
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D.
David Hartley
David Hartley was an 18th-century British politician and diplomat best known for representing Britain in negotiating and signing the 1783 Treaty of Paris that ended the American Revolutionary War.
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E.
Samuel Clarke
Samuel Clarke was an 18th-century English philosopher and Anglican clergyman known for his influential works on natural religion, metaphysics, and Newtonian theology.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
broadcasting executive
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business executive ⓘ human ⓘ media proprietor ⓘ |
| boardMemberOf | Museum of Modern Art ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | kidney failure ⓘ |
| child |
Jeffrey Paley
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Kate Paley ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1901-09-28 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1990-10-26 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Pennsylvania
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Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| employer |
Columbia Broadcasting System
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surface form:
CBS Inc.
Columbia Broadcasting System ⓘ |
| familyName | Paley ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
broadcasting
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mass media ⓘ radio industry ⓘ television industry ⓘ |
| fullName | William Samuel Paley self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| givenName | William ⓘ |
| knownFor |
development of network radio programming in the United States
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early adoption and promotion of television broadcasting ⓘ leadership of CBS during the golden age of radio ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| middleName | Samuel ⓘ |
| militaryService | United States Army ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | transformed a small radio network into a national broadcasting powerhouse ⓘ |
| notableWork |
building CBS into a major American radio network
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expansion of CBS into a leading television network ⓘ |
| occupation |
broadcasting executive
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businessperson ⓘ philanthropist ⓘ |
| parent |
Goldie Paley
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Samuel Paley ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Chicago, Illinois, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
New York City
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surface form:
New York City, New York, United States
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| positionHeld |
chairman of CBS
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chief executive of CBS ⓘ president of CBS ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| residence |
New York City
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surface form:
New York City, New York, United States
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| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse |
Babe Paley
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Barbara Cushing Mortimer ⓘ Dorothy Hart Hearst ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: William Samuel Paley Description of subject: William Samuel Paley was an American broadcasting executive who built CBS into one of the dominant radio and television networks of the 20th century.
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