Samuel Smith
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Samuel Smith was a London-based bookseller and publisher active in the early 18th century, known for issuing significant scientific works including Isaac Newton’s "Opticks."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Samuel Smith canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T367220 — 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: Samuel Smith Context triple: [Opticks, firstEditionPublisher, Samuel Smith]
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A.
Samuel Smith
Samuel Smith was an American Revolutionary War and War of 1812 officer and politician who led the defense of Baltimore against the British in 1814.
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B.
Samuel Gray
Samuel Gray was one of the colonial civilians killed by British soldiers during the 1770 Boston Massacre, an event that helped fuel American revolutionary sentiment.
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C.
Francis Smith
Francis Smith was a British Army officer best known for leading the regular troops during the opening engagements of the American Revolutionary War at Lexington and Concord in 1775.
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D.
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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E.
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.
- 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: Samuel Smith Target entity description: Samuel Smith was a London-based bookseller and publisher active in the early 18th century, known for issuing significant scientific works including Isaac Newton’s "Opticks."
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A.
Samuel Smith
Samuel Smith was an American Revolutionary War and War of 1812 officer and politician who led the defense of Baltimore against the British in 1814.
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B.
Samuel Gray
Samuel Gray was one of the colonial civilians killed by British soldiers during the 1770 Boston Massacre, an event that helped fuel American revolutionary sentiment.
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C.
Francis Smith
Francis Smith was a British Army officer best known for leading the regular troops during the opening engagements of the American Revolutionary War at Lexington and Concord in 1775.
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D.
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bookseller
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publisher ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | early 18th century ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Royal Society
ⓘ
surface form:
Royal Society (through scientific publications)
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| basedIn |
London, England
ⓘ
surface form:
London
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| businessType |
bookselling
ⓘ
publishing house ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 18th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| era | Enlightenment ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
book trade
ⓘ
publishing ⓘ |
| genrePublished |
natural philosophy
ⓘ
scientific literature ⓘ |
| historicalRole | disseminator of scientific knowledge ⓘ |
| knownFor |
issuing significant scientific works
ⓘ
publishing Isaac Newton’s "Opticks" ⓘ |
| languageOfPublishedWorks | English ⓘ |
| notableAuthorPublished | Isaac Newton ⓘ |
| notableWorkPublished | Opticks ⓘ |
| occupation |
bookseller
ⓘ
publisher ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
London, England
ⓘ
surface form:
London
|
| publicationMedium | printed books ⓘ |
| publishedAuthor | Isaac Newton ⓘ |
| publishedWork | Opticks ⓘ |
| regionOfActivity |
the Fleet Street printing district
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surface form:
London book trade
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| subjectAreaOfPublications |
optics
ⓘ
science ⓘ |
| workLocation |
London, England
ⓘ
surface form:
London
|
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: Samuel Smith Description of subject: Samuel Smith was a London-based bookseller and publisher active in the early 18th century, known for issuing significant scientific works including Isaac Newton’s "Opticks."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.