John Baskerville
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John Baskerville was an 18th-century English printer and typographer renowned for his high-quality book production and the influential Baskerville typeface.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| John Baskerville canonical | 20 |
| Baskerville typeface | 1 |
| Baskerville typefoundry | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T178249 — 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: John Baskerville Context triple: [Lunar Society of Birmingham, hasMember, John Baskerville]
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Henry Colburn
Henry Colburn was a prominent 19th-century British publisher known for issuing influential works of literature, travel, and science, including early publications by Charles Darwin.
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Fred Niblo
Fred Niblo was an American film director and actor best known for his work during the silent era, including classics like "Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ" (1925).
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C.
Jacob Wrey Mould
Jacob Wrey Mould was a 19th-century British-born architect and designer known for his ornate, polychromatic work on major New York City landmarks, including parts of Central Park and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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D.
Josiah Wedgwood I
Josiah Wedgwood I was an influential 18th-century English potter, entrepreneur, and abolitionist whose innovations helped transform pottery into a modern industrial art and business.
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E.
Matthew Boulton
Matthew Boulton was an influential 18th-century English manufacturer and industrialist, best known for his partnership with James Watt in developing and commercializing steam engines during the Industrial Revolution.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: John Baskerville Target entity description: 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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A.
Henry Colburn
Henry Colburn was a prominent 19th-century British publisher known for issuing influential works of literature, travel, and science, including early publications by Charles Darwin.
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B.
Fred Niblo
Fred Niblo was an American film director and actor best known for his work during the silent era, including classics like "Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ" (1925).
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C.
Jacob Wrey Mould
Jacob Wrey Mould was a 19th-century British-born architect and designer known for his ornate, polychromatic work on major New York City landmarks, including parts of Central Park and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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D.
Josiah Wedgwood I
Josiah Wedgwood I was an influential 18th-century English potter, entrepreneur, and abolitionist whose innovations helped transform pottery into a modern industrial art and business.
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E.
Matthew Boulton
Matthew Boulton was an influential 18th-century English manufacturer and industrialist, best known for his partnership with James Watt in developing and commercializing steam engines during the Industrial Revolution.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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printer ⓘ type designer ⓘ typographer ⓘ |
| basedIn | Birmingham ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Birmingham ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
England
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Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1706-01-28 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1775-01-08 ⓘ |
| designed |
Baskerville typeface
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italic typefaces ⓘ roman typefaces ⓘ |
| employer | self-employed ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
printing
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type design ⓘ typography ⓘ |
| genre | fine printing ⓘ |
| hasSignatureWork |
Baskerville Bible
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Baskerville Virgil ⓘ |
| influenced |
Didone typefaces
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Giambattista Bodoni ⓘ modern serif type design ⓘ |
| knownFor |
John Baskerville
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Baskerville typeface
high-quality book production ⓘ refined printing techniques ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| movement |
Age of Enlightenment
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surface form:
Enlightenment
|
| name | John Baskerville self-link ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Didone typefaces
ⓘ
surface form:
Baskerville typeface
Virgil's Aeneid ⓘ
surface form:
edition of Virgil (1757)
folio Bible (1763) ⓘ |
| occupation |
printer
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stonecutter ⓘ type designer ⓘ writing master ⓘ |
| partner | Sarah Eaves ⓘ |
| periodActive | mid-18th century ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Wolverley
ⓘ
Worcestershire, England ⓘ
surface form:
Worcestershire
|
| placeOfDeath | Birmingham ⓘ |
| printed |
classical Latin texts
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literary works ⓘ religious works ⓘ |
| spouse | Sarah Eaves ⓘ |
| style | transitional serif typography ⓘ |
| usedMaterial |
dark, lustrous ink
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highly polished paper ⓘ wove paper ⓘ |
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: John Baskerville Description of subject: John Baskerville was an 18th-century English printer and typographer renowned for his high-quality book production and the influential Baskerville typeface.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.