Samuel Galton Jr.
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Samuel Galton Jr. was an English Quaker industrialist and gun manufacturer known for his involvement in the Midlands Enlightenment through the Lunar Society of Birmingham.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Samuel Galton Jr. canonical | 7 |
| Samuel Tertius Galton | 2 |
| Galton | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T178246 — 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 Galton Jr. Context triple: [Lunar Society of Birmingham, hasMember, Samuel Galton Jr.]
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Henry Darwin Rogers
Henry Darwin Rogers was a 19th-century American geologist best known for directing the first geological survey of Pennsylvania and advancing the study of Appalachian geology.
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Horace Darwin
Horace Darwin was a British engineer and industrialist, co-founder of the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company and a leading figure in the development of precision scientific instruments in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Sidney Darlington
Sidney Darlington was an American electrical engineer and inventor best known for his pioneering work in network theory and the invention of the Darlington transistor configuration.
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George Howard Darwin
George Howard Darwin was a British astronomer and mathematician known for his work on tidal theory and the evolution of the Earth–Moon system.
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Francis Emerson Harding Davies
Francis Emerson Harding Davies was the British businessman who became the third husband of American actress Celeste Holm.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Samuel Galton Jr. Target entity description: Samuel Galton Jr. was an English Quaker industrialist and gun manufacturer known for his involvement in the Midlands Enlightenment through the Lunar Society of Birmingham.
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A.
Henry Darwin Rogers
Henry Darwin Rogers was a 19th-century American geologist best known for directing the first geological survey of Pennsylvania and advancing the study of Appalachian geology.
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B.
Horace Darwin
Horace Darwin was a British engineer and industrialist, co-founder of the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company and a leading figure in the development of precision scientific instruments in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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C.
Sidney Darlington
Sidney Darlington was an American electrical engineer and inventor best known for his pioneering work in network theory and the invention of the Darlington transistor configuration.
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D.
George Howard Darwin
George Howard Darwin was a British astronomer and mathematician known for his work on tidal theory and the evolution of the Earth–Moon system.
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E.
Francis Emerson Harding Davies
Francis Emerson Harding Davies was the British businessman who became the third husband of American actress Celeste Holm.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Quaker
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gun manufacturer ⓘ human ⓘ industrialist ⓘ member of the Lunar Society of Birmingham ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Birmingham gun trade
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Quaker community in Birmingham ⓘ scientific and industrial circles of the Midlands Enlightenment ⓘ |
| birthYear | 1753 ⓘ |
| business | Galton gun-manufacturing firm ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity |
18th century
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19th century ⓘ |
| child |
Mary Anne Galton
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surface form:
Catherine Galton
Mary Anne Galton ⓘ
surface form:
Elizabeth Galton
John Galton ⓘ Mary Anne Galton ⓘ Robert Galton ⓘ Samuel Galton Jr. self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Samuel Tertius Galton
John Galton ⓘ
surface form:
Thomas Galton
|
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| deathYear | 1832 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English ⓘ |
| familyName |
Samuel Galton Jr.
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Galton
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| fieldOfWork |
arms manufacturing
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industry ⓘ |
| givenName | Samuel ⓘ |
| grandparent | Francis Galton ⓘ |
| industry | arms industry ⓘ |
| memberOf | Lunar Society of Birmingham ⓘ |
| name | Samuel Galton Jr. self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor |
involvement in the Lunar Society of Birmingham
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manufacture of firearms ⓘ role in the Midlands Enlightenment ⓘ |
| notableRole |
leading figure in Birmingham’s gun manufacturing trade
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prominent member of the Lunar Society of Birmingham ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessperson
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gun manufacturer ⓘ industrialist ⓘ |
| participantIn | Midlands Enlightenment ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Birmingham ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Birmingham ⓘ |
| relative | Francis Galton ⓘ |
| religion | Quakerism ⓘ |
| residence |
Birmingham
ⓘ
Warwickshire ⓘ |
| spouse | Lucy Barclay ⓘ |
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 Galton Jr. Description of subject: Samuel Galton Jr. was an English Quaker industrialist and gun manufacturer known for his involvement in the Midlands Enlightenment through the Lunar Society of Birmingham.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.