William Small
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William Small was an 18th-century Scottish physician and educator known for his influence on Thomas Jefferson and his role in the intellectual circle of the Lunar Society of Birmingham.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| William Small canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T178241 — 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.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Small Context triple: [Lunar Society of Birmingham, hasMember, William Small]
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A.
Jacob Bigelow
Jacob Bigelow was a 19th-century American physician, botanist, and architect known for pioneering the rural cemetery movement and promoting practical science and public health.
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B.
George Burroughs
George Burroughs was a Puritan minister in colonial New England who was infamously executed for alleged witchcraft during the Salem witch trials.
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C.
Moses Taylor
Moses Taylor was a prominent 19th-century American merchant, banker, and railroad executive who became one of the wealthiest men of his era.
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D.
Increase Mather
Increase Mather was a prominent 17th-century New England Puritan minister and political leader who played a major role in colonial religious life and governance, including efforts to curb the excesses of the Salem witch trials.
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E.
George Jacobs Sr.
George Jacobs Sr. was an elderly farmer in Salem, Massachusetts, who was accused of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials and executed by hanging in 1692.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Small Target entity description: William Small was an 18th-century Scottish physician and educator known for his influence on Thomas Jefferson and his role in the intellectual circle of the Lunar Society of Birmingham.
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A.
Jacob Bigelow
Jacob Bigelow was a 19th-century American physician, botanist, and architect known for pioneering the rural cemetery movement and promoting practical science and public health.
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B.
George Burroughs
George Burroughs was a Puritan minister in colonial New England who was infamously executed for alleged witchcraft during the Salem witch trials.
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C.
Moses Taylor
Moses Taylor was a prominent 19th-century American merchant, banker, and railroad executive who became one of the wealthiest men of his era.
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D.
Increase Mather
Increase Mather was a prominent 17th-century New England Puritan minister and political leader who played a major role in colonial religious life and governance, including efforts to curb the excesses of the Salem witch trials.
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E.
George Jacobs Sr.
George Jacobs Sr. was an elderly farmer in Salem, Massachusetts, who was accused of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials and executed by hanging in 1692.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic
ⓘ
educator ⓘ person ⓘ physician ⓘ |
| associatedWith | intellectual circle of the Lunar Society of Birmingham ⓘ |
| centuryActive | 18th century ⓘ |
| countryOfActivity |
Kingdom of Great Britain
ⓘ
Colonial America ⓘ
surface form:
United States (colonial America)
|
| describedAs | 18th-century Scottish physician and educator ⓘ |
| era |
Age of Enlightenment
ⓘ
surface form:
Enlightenment
|
| fieldOfWork |
education
ⓘ
medicine ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| influenced | Thomas Jefferson ⓘ |
| knownFor |
influence on Thomas Jefferson
ⓘ
membership in the Lunar Society of Birmingham ⓘ |
| memberOf | Lunar Society of Birmingham ⓘ |
| name | William Small self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | Scottish ⓘ |
| notableStudent | Thomas Jefferson ⓘ |
| occupation |
educator
ⓘ
physician ⓘ professor ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Birmingham
ⓘ
Virginia ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
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.
Input
Subject: William Small Description of subject: William Small was an 18th-century Scottish physician and educator known for his influence on Thomas Jefferson and his role in the intellectual circle of the Lunar Society of Birmingham.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.