William Sloane Coffin Sr.
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William Sloane Coffin Sr. was an American businessman and publisher, best known as the longtime president of the prominent New York publishing house W. W. Norton & Company.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William Sloane Coffin Sr. canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5379913 — 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 Sloane Coffin Sr. Context triple: [William Sloane Coffin, parent, William Sloane Coffin Sr.]
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A.
William Sloane Coffin
William Sloane Coffin was an influential American Christian clergyman and social activist best known for his leadership in the civil rights and anti–Vietnam War movements.
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B.
Harvey Cox
Harvey Cox is an American Baptist theologian and Harvard Divinity School professor emeritus best known for his influential works on secularization, urban theology, and the role of religion in contemporary society, including the landmark book "The Secular City."
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C.
Timothy C. May
Timothy C. May was an American technical and political writer, former Intel engineer, and co-founder of the cypherpunk movement known for his influential essays on cryptography, digital privacy, and crypto-anarchism.
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D.
Henry Sloane Coffin
Henry Sloane Coffin was an influential American Presbyterian minister, theologian, and president of Union Theological Seminary in New York City in the early 20th century.
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E.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Harry Emerson Fosdick was an influential early 20th-century American liberal Protestant minister and theologian known for his progressive views and widely heard radio sermons.
- 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 Sloane Coffin Sr. Target entity description: William Sloane Coffin Sr. was an American businessman and publisher, best known as the longtime president of the prominent New York publishing house W. W. Norton & Company.
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A.
William Sloane Coffin
William Sloane Coffin was an influential American Christian clergyman and social activist best known for his leadership in the civil rights and anti–Vietnam War movements.
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B.
Harvey Cox
Harvey Cox is an American Baptist theologian and Harvard Divinity School professor emeritus best known for his influential works on secularization, urban theology, and the role of religion in contemporary society, including the landmark book "The Secular City."
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C.
Timothy C. May
Timothy C. May was an American technical and political writer, former Intel engineer, and co-founder of the cypherpunk movement known for his influential essays on cryptography, digital privacy, and crypto-anarchism.
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D.
Henry Sloane Coffin
Henry Sloane Coffin was an influential American Presbyterian minister, theologian, and president of Union Theological Seminary in New York City in the early 20th century.
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E.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Harry Emerson Fosdick was an influential early 20th-century American liberal Protestant minister and theologian known for his progressive views and widely heard radio sermons.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (23)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
publisher ⓘ |
| affiliation | W. W. Norton & Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | W. W. Norton & Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Coffin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
business
ⓘ
publishing ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName |
Sloane
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
William ⓘ |
| hasRelative | William Sloane Coffin Jr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| industry | book publishing ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | longtime leadership of W. W. Norton & Company ⓘ |
| notableWork | leadership of W. W. Norton & Company ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessman
ⓘ
publisher ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | New York City ⓘ |
| positionHeld | president of W. W. Norton & Company ⓘ |
| relative | William Sloane Coffin Sr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| workLocation | New York City ⓘ |
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 Sloane Coffin Sr. Description of subject: William Sloane Coffin Sr. was an American businessman and publisher, best known as the longtime president of the prominent New York publishing house W. W. Norton & Company.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.