Edward William Titus
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Edward William Titus was an American-born bookseller, publisher, and literary patron active in Paris’s expatriate community in the early 20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Edward William Titus canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6584112 — 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: Edward William Titus Context triple: [Helena Rubinstein, spouse, Edward William Titus]
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A.
James G. Blight
James G. Blight is an American historian and scholar of international relations known for his work on U.S. foreign policy, the Cold War, and the prevention of catastrophic conflict.
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B.
Francis Newton Gifford
Francis Newton Gifford was a prominent American football player and Hall of Famer who became widely known as a longtime sportscaster on ABC’s Monday Night Football.
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C.
William A. Wheeler
William A. Wheeler was an American politician who served as the 19th vice president of the United States under President Rutherford B. Hayes.
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D.
George A. Perkins
George A. Perkins was an American lawyer best known as a founding partner of the prominent U.S. law firm Perkins Coie.
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E.
Horace W. Peaslee
Horace W. Peaslee was an American architect best known for designing prominent public monuments and civic buildings in the early to mid-20th century.
- 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: Edward William Titus Target entity description: Edward William Titus was an American-born bookseller, publisher, and literary patron active in Paris’s expatriate community in the early 20th century.
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A.
James G. Blight
James G. Blight is an American historian and scholar of international relations known for his work on U.S. foreign policy, the Cold War, and the prevention of catastrophic conflict.
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B.
Francis Newton Gifford
Francis Newton Gifford was a prominent American football player and Hall of Famer who became widely known as a longtime sportscaster on ABC’s Monday Night Football.
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C.
William A. Wheeler
William A. Wheeler was an American politician who served as the 19th vice president of the United States under President Rutherford B. Hayes.
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D.
George A. Perkins
George A. Perkins was an American lawyer best known as a founding partner of the prominent U.S. law firm Perkins Coie.
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E.
Horace W. Peaslee
Horace W. Peaslee was an American architect best known for designing prominent public monuments and civic buildings in the early to mid-20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bookseller
ⓘ
literary patron ⓘ person ⓘ publisher ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | E. W. Titus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn | Paris ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1889 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1967 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Columbia University ⓘ |
| employer | Black Manikin Press NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| endTimeOfSpouseRelationship | 1938 ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
avant-garde literature
ⓘ
modernist literature ⓘ |
| founded | Black Manikin Press NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | literary modernism ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Paris expatriate community ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
publishing controversial modernist works
ⓘ
supporting expatriate writers in Paris ⓘ |
| notableWork | This Quarter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
bookseller
ⓘ
journalist ⓘ publisher ⓘ translator ⓘ |
| patronOf |
Anaïs Nin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
D. H. Lawrence NERFINISHED ⓘ Henry Miller NERFINISHED ⓘ James Joyce NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | San Francisco NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Palm Beach NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publisherOf |
Lady Chatterley’s Lover
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tropic of Cancer NERFINISHED ⓘ Ulysses (excerpts) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
France
ⓘ
Paris ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse |
Helena Rubinstein
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mercedes de Acosta NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startTimeOfSpouseRelationship | 1908 ⓘ |
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: Edward William Titus Description of subject: Edward William Titus was an American-born bookseller, publisher, and literary patron active in Paris’s expatriate community in the early 20th century.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.