Dr. Wilson Cary Swann
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Dr. Wilson Cary Swann was a Philadelphia physician and civic leader best known as the founder of the Philadelphia Fountain Society, which promoted public drinking fountains in the city.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dr. Wilson Cary Swann canonical | 2 |
| Wilson Cary Swann | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2404369 — 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: Dr. Wilson Cary Swann Context triple: [Swann Memorial Fountain, namedAfter, Dr. Wilson Cary Swann]
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Ernest Poole
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Dr. Erasmus Craven
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Dr. Alfred Jones
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Dr. John Freind
Dr. John Freind was an early 18th-century English physician and scholar known for his influential medical writings and his connections with leading literary and intellectual figures of his time.
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Henry Tucker
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- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Dr. Wilson Cary Swann Target entity description: Dr. Wilson Cary Swann was a Philadelphia physician and civic leader best known as the founder of the Philadelphia Fountain Society, which promoted public drinking fountains in the city.
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A.
Ernest Poole
Ernest Poole was an American novelist and journalist best known for his socially conscious fiction and as the inaugural recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel (now Fiction).
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B.
Dr. Erasmus Craven
Dr. Erasmus Craven is a timid but good-hearted sorcerer, portrayed by Vincent Price, who becomes entangled in a magical rivalry in the 1963 horror-comedy film "The Raven."
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C.
Dr. Alfred Jones
Dr. Alfred Jones is a reserved British fisheries scientist whose unlikely involvement in a visionary project to introduce salmon fishing to the Yemeni desert drives the plot of the novel and film "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen."
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D.
Dr. John Freind
Dr. John Freind was an early 18th-century English physician and scholar known for his influential medical writings and his connections with leading literary and intellectual figures of his time.
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E.
Henry Tucker
Henry Tucker was a Bermudian politician who became the territory's first premier and played a key role in modernizing its political and economic landscape.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
civic leader
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civic organization ⓘ human ⓘ nonprofit organization ⓘ physician ⓘ |
| areaOfInfluence | Philadelphia ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Swann ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
medicine
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public health ⓘ urban civic improvement ⓘ |
| founded | Philadelphia Fountain Society ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Wilson ⓘ |
| location | Philadelphia ⓘ |
| movement | public drinking fountain movement ⓘ |
| name |
Dr. Wilson Cary Swann
self-link
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surface form:
Wilson Cary Swann
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| notableActivity | promotion of public drinking fountains in Philadelphia ⓘ |
| notableFor | founding the Philadelphia Fountain Society ⓘ |
| occupation |
civic leader
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physician ⓘ |
| purpose |
improvement of public health through access to clean drinking water
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promotion of public drinking fountains ⓘ |
| residence | Philadelphia ⓘ |
| workLocation | Philadelphia ⓘ |
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: Dr. Wilson Cary Swann Description of subject: Dr. Wilson Cary Swann was a Philadelphia physician and civic leader best known as the founder of the Philadelphia Fountain Society, which promoted public drinking fountains in the city.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.