William Bradford (printer)
E456446
William Bradford was a pioneering colonial American printer and publisher who helped establish the early printing industry in British North America.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William Bradford (printer) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4608020 — 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 Bradford (printer) Context triple: [John Peter Zenger, apprenticedTo, William Bradford (printer)]
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A.
Richard Grafton
Richard Grafton was a 16th-century English printer and publisher best known for producing early English Bibles and serving as the king’s printer under Edward VI.
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B.
Richard Field (printer)
Richard Field was an English printer and publisher of the late 16th and early 17th centuries, best known for printing several of William Shakespeare’s early works.
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C.
William Caxton
William Caxton was a 15th-century English merchant, diplomat, and printer best known for introducing the printing press to England and producing some of the first books printed in English.
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D.
Thomas Frye
Thomas Frye was an 18th-century Irish-born artist and entrepreneur best known for co-founding the Bow porcelain factory and for his influential mezzotint portraits.
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E.
Ephraim Bull
Ephraim Bull was a 19th-century American horticulturist best known for developing the Concord grape, one of the first widely successful American table and wine grapes.
- 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 Bradford (printer) Target entity description: William Bradford was a pioneering colonial American printer and publisher who helped establish the early printing industry in British North America.
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A.
Richard Grafton
Richard Grafton was a 16th-century English printer and publisher best known for producing early English Bibles and serving as the king’s printer under Edward VI.
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B.
Richard Field (printer)
Richard Field was an English printer and publisher of the late 16th and early 17th centuries, best known for printing several of William Shakespeare’s early works.
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C.
William Caxton
William Caxton was a 15th-century English merchant, diplomat, and printer best known for introducing the printing press to England and producing some of the first books printed in English.
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D.
Thomas Frye
Thomas Frye was an 18th-century Irish-born artist and entrepreneur best known for co-founding the Bow porcelain factory and for his influential mezzotint portraits.
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E.
Ephraim Bull
Ephraim Bull was a 19th-century American horticulturist best known for developing the Concord grape, one of the first widely successful American table and wine grapes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
colonial American printer
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person ⓘ printer ⓘ publisher ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1740s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1680s ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1663-05-20 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
England
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Leicestershire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
New York City
NERFINISHED
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Trinity Churchyard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child | Andrew Bradford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship | British subject ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Colonial America
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
England ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1752-05-23 ⓘ |
| employer |
Province of New York
NERFINISHED
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Province of Pennsylvania NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | Colonial America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| founded |
first printing press in Pennsylvania
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one of the earliest printing presses in New York ⓘ |
| genre |
almanacs
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legal texts ⓘ newspapers ⓘ religious tracts ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being one of the first printers in British North America
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pioneering printing in colonial America ⓘ printing almanacs and legal documents ⓘ printing early American newspapers ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| movedTo |
New York City
NERFINISHED
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Pennsylvania Colony NERFINISHED ⓘ Philadelphia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | William Bradford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Kalendarium Pennsilvaniense
NERFINISHED
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New-York Gazette NERFINISHED ⓘ The American Mercury NERFINISHED ⓘ The Laws of the Province of Pennsylvania NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
bookseller
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printer ⓘ publisher ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
public printer of New York
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public printer of Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| relative | William Bradford (colonial printer of Philadelphia) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Quaker ⓘ |
| spouse | Elizabeth Sowle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation |
New York City
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Philadelphia ⓘ |
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 Bradford (printer) Description of subject: William Bradford was a pioneering colonial American printer and publisher who helped establish the early printing industry in British North America.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.