Samuel Paley
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Samuel Paley was a Ukrainian-born American cigar manufacturer and patriarch of the Paley family, known for founding the Congress Cigar Company that helped finance his son William S. Paley’s rise in broadcasting.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Samuel Paley canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1944216 — 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: Samuel Paley Context triple: [William S. Paley, parent, Samuel Paley]
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Samuel Miller
Samuel Miller was a prominent early 19th-century American Presbyterian theologian, educator, and church historian who helped shape Reformed theological education in the United States.
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Moses Taylor
Moses Taylor was a prominent 19th-century American merchant, banker, and railroad executive who became one of the wealthiest men of his era.
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C.
Abraham Solomon
Abraham Solomon was a 19th-century British painter known for his genre scenes and association with the Victorian art world.
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Solomon Schechter
Solomon Schechter was a prominent Jewish scholar and theologian best known for leading the Jewish Theological Seminary and shaping Conservative Judaism in the early 20th century.
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Samuel Mather
Samuel Mather was a 17th-century New England Puritan minister and writer, known as a member of the influential Mather family of colonial Boston.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Samuel Paley Target entity description: Samuel Paley was a Ukrainian-born American cigar manufacturer and patriarch of the Paley family, known for founding the Congress Cigar Company that helped finance his son William S. Paley’s rise in broadcasting.
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A.
Samuel Miller
Samuel Miller was a prominent early 19th-century American Presbyterian theologian, educator, and church historian who helped shape Reformed theological education in the United States.
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B.
Moses Taylor
Moses Taylor was a prominent 19th-century American merchant, banker, and railroad executive who became one of the wealthiest men of his era.
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C.
Abraham Solomon
Abraham Solomon was a 19th-century British painter known for his genre scenes and association with the Victorian art world.
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D.
Solomon Schechter
Solomon Schechter was a prominent Jewish scholar and theologian best known for leading the Jewish Theological Seminary and shaping Conservative Judaism in the early 20th century.
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E.
Samuel Mather
Samuel Mather was a 17th-century New England Puritan minister and writer, known as a member of the influential Mather family of colonial Boston.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Ukrainian emigrant to the United States
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businessperson ⓘ cigar company ⓘ cigar manufacturer ⓘ family ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ |
| child | William S. Paley ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Russian Empire ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfEmigration | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Jews
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surface form:
Jewish people
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| familyName |
Paley
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Paley ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
business
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manufacturing ⓘ |
| founded | Congress Cigar Company ⓘ |
| from | Ukraine ⓘ |
| givenName | Samuel ⓘ |
| helpedFinance | William S. Paley’s broadcasting ventures ⓘ |
| industry |
cigar industry
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cigar industry ⓘ tobacco industry ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
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Yiddish ⓘ |
| notableFamily | Paley family ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being patriarch of the Paley family
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founding Congress Cigar Company ⓘ leadership of Columbia Broadcasting System ⓘ |
| notableMember |
Samuel Paley
self-linksurface differs
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William S. Paley ⓘ |
| notableWork | founding of Congress Cigar Company ⓘ |
| occupation |
broadcasting executive
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business executive ⓘ cigar manufacturer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Ukraine ⓘ |
| product | cigars ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| residence |
City of Chicago
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surface form:
Chicago
New York City ⓘ Philadelphia ⓘ |
| spouse | Goldie Paley ⓘ |
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: Samuel Paley Description of subject: Samuel Paley was a Ukrainian-born American cigar manufacturer and patriarch of the Paley family, known for founding the Congress Cigar Company that helped finance his son William S. Paley’s rise in broadcasting.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.