A. M. Taylor
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A. M. Taylor is a physicist known for contributing to the influential optics textbook "Principles of Optics."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| A. M. Taylor canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3572707 — 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: A. M. Taylor Context triple: [Principles of Optics, contributor, A. M. Taylor]
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A.
J.H. Taylor
J.H. Taylor was a pioneering English professional golfer and multiple Open Championship winner who helped shape the early development of modern golf.
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B.
Francis Lenn Taylor
Francis Lenn Taylor was an American art dealer best known as the father of iconic actress Elizabeth Taylor.
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C.
A. H. Johnson
A. H. Johnson was one of the climbers credited with making the first recorded ascent of Mount Whitney, the highest peak in the contiguous United States.
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D.
A. E. Bye
A. E. Bye was an influential American landscape architect known for his sculptural, naturalistic landforms and collaborations with major art institutions and architects.
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E.
Frederick H. Meyer
Frederick H. Meyer was an American architect active in the early 20th century, known for designing prominent public and commercial buildings in San Francisco.
- 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: A. M. Taylor Target entity description: A. M. Taylor is a physicist known for contributing to the influential optics textbook "Principles of Optics."
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A.
J.H. Taylor
J.H. Taylor was a pioneering English professional golfer and multiple Open Championship winner who helped shape the early development of modern golf.
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B.
Francis Lenn Taylor
Francis Lenn Taylor was an American art dealer best known as the father of iconic actress Elizabeth Taylor.
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C.
A. H. Johnson
A. H. Johnson was one of the climbers credited with making the first recorded ascent of Mount Whitney, the highest peak in the contiguous United States.
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D.
A. E. Bye
A. E. Bye was an influential American landscape architect known for his sculptural, naturalistic landforms and collaborations with major art institutions and architects.
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E.
Frederick H. Meyer
Frederick H. Meyer was an American architect active in the early 20th century, known for designing prominent public and commercial buildings in San Francisco.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (7)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
optics textbook
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physicist ⓘ |
| contributedTo | Principles of Optics ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | optics ⓘ |
| knownFor | contributions to the textbook "Principles of Optics" ⓘ |
| notableWork | Principles of Optics ⓘ |
| occupation | physicist ⓘ |
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: A. M. Taylor Description of subject: A. M. Taylor is a physicist known for contributing to the influential optics textbook "Principles of Optics."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.