James Phillips
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James Phillips was an 18th-century British Quaker abolitionist and publisher who played a key role in the early organized campaign to end the transatlantic slave trade.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| James Phillips canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3255029 — 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: James Phillips Context triple: [Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade, foundedBy, James Phillips]
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A.
David Phillips
David Phillips was a film cinematographer best known for his work on the 1995 drama "The Basketball Diaries" starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
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B.
John Davenport
John Davenport was a prominent 17th-century English Puritan clergyman and co-founder of the New Haven Colony in New England.
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C.
Thomas Richards
Thomas Richards was a film editor best known for his work on classic Hollywood films, including the 1941 noir "The Maltese Falcon."
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D.
Edward Mills
Edward Mills was a British architect known for designing the International Maritime Organization (IMO) Headquarters in London.
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E.
Thomas Sampson
Thomas Sampson was a 16th-century English Puritan theologian and churchman known for his role in the early English Reformation and involvement with the Geneva Bible.
- 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: James Phillips Target entity description: James Phillips was an 18th-century British Quaker abolitionist and publisher who played a key role in the early organized campaign to end the transatlantic slave trade.
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A.
David Phillips
David Phillips was a film cinematographer best known for his work on the 1995 drama "The Basketball Diaries" starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
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B.
John Davenport
John Davenport was a prominent 17th-century English Puritan clergyman and co-founder of the New Haven Colony in New England.
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C.
Thomas Richards
Thomas Richards was a film editor best known for his work on classic Hollywood films, including the 1941 noir "The Maltese Falcon."
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D.
Edward Mills
Edward Mills was a British architect known for designing the International Maritime Organization (IMO) Headquarters in London.
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E.
Thomas Sampson
Thomas Sampson was a 16th-century English Puritan theologian and churchman known for his role in the early English Reformation and involvement with the Geneva Bible.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Quaker
ⓘ
abolitionist ⓘ human ⓘ publisher ⓘ |
| activeInCentury | 18th century ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
British abolitionist movement
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Quaker abolitionists ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | British ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
abolition of slavery
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publishing ⓘ social reform ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasRole |
early organizer in the British abolitionist movement
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publisher of abolitionist tracts ⓘ |
| ideology | anti-slavery ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| livedIn | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| memberOf | Religious Society of Friends ⓘ |
| movement | abolitionism ⓘ |
| notableFor |
campaigning against the transatlantic slave trade
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publishing abolitionist literature ⓘ |
| occupation |
abolitionist
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bookseller ⓘ printer ⓘ publisher ⓘ |
| opposedTo |
slavery
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transatlantic slave trade ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
London, England
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surface form:
London
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| politicalCause | abolition of the slave trade ⓘ |
| religion |
Religious Society of Friends
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surface form:
Quakerism
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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: James Phillips Description of subject: James Phillips was an 18th-century British Quaker abolitionist and publisher who played a key role in the early organized campaign to end the transatlantic slave trade.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.