William Davis Ticknor
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William Davis Ticknor was a 19th-century American publisher best known as a co-founder of the influential Boston publishing house Ticknor and Fields.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| William Davis Ticknor canonical | 6 |
| Benjamin Holt Ticknor | 1 |
| George Ticknor | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1866489 — 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 Davis Ticknor Context triple: [Ticknor and Fields, foundedBy, William Davis Ticknor]
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A.
George C. Perkins
George C. Perkins was an American politician and businessman who served as the 14th governor of California and later as a U.S. Senator.
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B.
Augustus Trowbridge
Augustus Trowbridge was an American physicist and academic known for his work in optics and for mentoring influential engineers and scientists in the early 20th century.
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C.
Horace White
Horace White was an American journalist and editor known for his influential work at the Chicago Tribune and the New York Evening Post in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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George Bancroft
George Bancroft was a 19th-century American historian, statesman, and U.S. Secretary of the Navy, best known for his multi-volume "History of the United States" and for helping establish the U.S. Naval Academy.
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E.
Abbott Lawrence
Abbott Lawrence was a prominent 19th-century American industrialist, merchant, and politician who played a key role in the early textile industry and the development of Lawrence, Massachusetts.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: William Davis Ticknor Target entity description: William Davis Ticknor was a 19th-century American publisher best known as a co-founder of the influential Boston publishing house Ticknor and Fields.
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A.
George C. Perkins
George C. Perkins was an American politician and businessman who served as the 14th governor of California and later as a U.S. Senator.
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B.
Augustus Trowbridge
Augustus Trowbridge was an American physicist and academic known for his work in optics and for mentoring influential engineers and scientists in the early 20th century.
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C.
Horace White
Horace White was an American journalist and editor known for his influential work at the Chicago Tribune and the New York Evening Post in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
George Bancroft
George Bancroft was a 19th-century American historian, statesman, and U.S. Secretary of the Navy, best known for his multi-volume "History of the United States" and for helping establish the U.S. Naval Academy.
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E.
Abbott Lawrence
Abbott Lawrence was a prominent 19th-century American industrialist, merchant, and politician who played a key role in the early textile industry and the development of Lawrence, Massachusetts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American publisher
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person ⓘ publisher ⓘ |
| activeInCentury | 19th century ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1810-08-06 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Sutton, Massachusetts, United States ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | pneumonia ⓘ |
| child |
William Davis Ticknor
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Benjamin Holt Ticknor
Howard Malcom Ticknor ⓘ |
| coFounded | Ticknor and Fields ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1864-04-10 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Philadelphia
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surface form:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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| employer | Ticknor and Fields ⓘ |
| familyName |
Ticknor and Fields
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surface form:
Ticknor
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| fullName | William Davis Ticknor self-link ⓘ |
| genre | literary publishing ⓘ |
| givenName | William ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| industry | book publishing ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
co-founding the publishing firm Ticknor and Fields
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publishing prominent 19th-century American authors ⓘ |
| notableWork | development of Ticknor and Fields as a leading American literary publisher ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessperson
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publisher ⓘ |
| positionHeld | partner at Ticknor and Fields ⓘ |
| relative | George Ticknor ⓘ |
| residence |
Boston, Massachusetts
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surface form:
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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| spouse | Anna Eliot Ticknor ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Boston, Massachusetts
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surface form:
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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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 Davis Ticknor Description of subject: William Davis Ticknor was a 19th-century American publisher best known as a co-founder of the influential Boston publishing house Ticknor and Fields.
Referenced by (8)
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