John Wilkinson

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John Wilkinson was an influential 18th-century English industrialist and ironmaster whose innovations in iron production and precision boring greatly advanced the Industrial Revolution.

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Label Occurrences
John Wilkinson canonical 11

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf human
industrialist
inventor
ironmaster
collaboratedWith James Watt
Matthew Boulton
constructed iron barge on the River Severn
countryOfCitizenship Kingdom of Great Britain
dateOfBirth 1728-11-10
dateOfDeath 1808-07-14
employer Bersham Ironworks
Willey Ironworks
era 18th century
Industrial Revolution
ethnicGroup English
familyName Wilkinson
fieldOfWork iron production
mechanical engineering
metallurgy
givenName John
industry iron industry
influenced Industrial Revolution
surface form: Industrial Revolution in Britain

development of steam power
knownFor advocacy of iron for construction
early use of iron in boats
languageSpoken English
name John Wilkinson self-link
nickname Wilkinson
surface form: Iron Mad Wilkinson
notableFor contributions to the Industrial Revolution
innovations in iron production
precision boring of iron cylinders
occupation industrialist
inventor
ironmaster
owned Bersham Ironworks
Willey Ironworks
placeOfBirth Cumberland
England
Little Clifton
placeOfDeath Bradley
England
Staffordshire
residence Bersham
Broseley
sexOrGender male
significantEvent development of precision boring machine for steam-engine cylinders
usedIn manufacture of steam-engine cylinders

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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.
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Subject: John Wilkinson
Description of subject: John Wilkinson was an influential 18th-century English industrialist and ironmaster whose innovations in iron production and precision boring greatly advanced the Industrial Revolution.

Referenced by (11)

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Lunar Society of Birmingham hasMember John Wilkinson
John Wilkinson name John Wilkinson self-link
Wilkinson hasNotableBearer John Wilkinson
Bradley associatedWith John Wilkinson
Bradley historicallyAssociatedWith John Wilkinson
Willey Ironworks associatedWith John Wilkinson
Willey Ironworks ownedBy John Wilkinson
Willey Ironworks operatedBy John Wilkinson
Bersham Ironworks associatedWith John Wilkinson
Bersham Ironworks owner John Wilkinson
Bersham Ironworks operatedBy John Wilkinson