Benjamin Motte
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Benjamin Motte was an 18th-century London publisher best known for issuing the first edition of Jonathan Swift’s satirical novel "Gulliver’s Travels."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Benjamin Motte canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7136314 — 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: Benjamin Motte Context triple: [Gulliver's Travels, firstEditionPublisher, Benjamin Motte]
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A.
Christian Van Dyke
Christian Van Dyke is one of the children of legendary American actor and entertainer Dick Van Dyke.
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B.
De La Motte
De La Motte is a French-origin surname historically associated with various notable figures, including early 20th-century American silent film actress Marguerite De La Motte.
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C.
Ebenezer Breed
Ebenezer Breed was a prominent Boston merchant and landowner in the 18th century whose name was given to Breed's Hill, a key site in the American Revolutionary War.
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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.
Nathaniel Motte
Nathaniel Motte is an American musician, producer, and member of the electronic music duo 3OH!3.
- 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: Benjamin Motte Target entity description: Benjamin Motte was an 18th-century London publisher best known for issuing the first edition of Jonathan Swift’s satirical novel "Gulliver’s Travels."
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A.
Christian Van Dyke
Christian Van Dyke is one of the children of legendary American actor and entertainer Dick Van Dyke.
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B.
De La Motte
De La Motte is a French-origin surname historically associated with various notable figures, including early 20th-century American silent film actress Marguerite De La Motte.
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C.
Ebenezer Breed
Ebenezer Breed was a prominent Boston merchant and landowner in the 18th century whose name was given to Breed's Hill, a key site in the American Revolutionary War.
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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.
Nathaniel Motte
Nathaniel Motte is an American musician, producer, and member of the electronic music duo 3OH!3.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
person
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publisher ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Jonathan Swift NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn | London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | book publishing ⓘ |
| genrePublished |
fiction
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satire ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | issuing the first edition of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels ⓘ |
| notablePublicationDate | 1726 (first edition of Gulliver’s Travels) ⓘ |
| notableWorkPublished | Gulliver’s Travels NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | publisher ⓘ |
| placeOfWork | London, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationCentury | 18th century ⓘ |
| publisherOf |
Gulliver’s Travels
NERFINISHED
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works by Jonathan Swift ⓘ |
| roleInPublication | first-edition publisher of Gulliver’s Travels ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 18th century ⓘ |
| workLocation |
London, England
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surface form:
London
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How these facts were elicited
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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: Benjamin Motte Description of subject: Benjamin Motte was an 18th-century London publisher best known for issuing the first edition of Jonathan Swift’s satirical novel "Gulliver’s Travels."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.