Moses King
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Moses King was an American publisher and editor best known for producing popular guidebooks and illustrated reference works in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Moses King canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2452514 — 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: Moses King Context triple: [Science, formerPublisher, Moses King]
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A.
Moses Wilkinson
Moses Wilkinson was a blind, enslaved-turned-free Black Methodist preacher and influential Loyalist leader who guided Black refugees from the American Revolution to new settlements in Nova Scotia and later Sierra Leone.
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B.
Moses McWilliams
Moses McWilliams was the first husband of Madam C. J. Walker, the pioneering African American entrepreneur and philanthropist.
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C.
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.
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D.
Solomon Young
Solomon Young was the maternal grandfather of U.S. President Harry S. Truman and a significant early influence in Truman’s upbringing and character.
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E.
Lemuel Bowen
Lemuel Bowen was an early automotive entrepreneur associated with the founding of the Cadillac automobile company.
- 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: Moses King Target entity description: Moses King was an American publisher and editor best known for producing popular guidebooks and illustrated reference works in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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A.
Moses Wilkinson
Moses Wilkinson was a blind, enslaved-turned-free Black Methodist preacher and influential Loyalist leader who guided Black refugees from the American Revolution to new settlements in Nova Scotia and later Sierra Leone.
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B.
Moses McWilliams
Moses McWilliams was the first husband of Madam C. J. Walker, the pioneering African American entrepreneur and philanthropist.
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C.
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.
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D.
Solomon Young
Solomon Young was the maternal grandfather of U.S. President Harry S. Truman and a significant early influence in Truman’s upbringing and character.
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E.
Lemuel Bowen
Lemuel Bowen was an early automotive entrepreneur associated with the founding of the Cadillac automobile company.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
author
ⓘ
editor ⓘ human ⓘ publisher ⓘ |
| activeYearsEndTime | early 20th century ⓘ |
| activeYearsStartTime | late 19th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| describedBySource | late 19th-century American guidebooks ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
guidebooks
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illustrated reference works ⓘ |
| genre |
reference work
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travel guide ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| hasNotableStyle |
city and regional handbooks
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heavily illustrated publications ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
producing illustrated reference works
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producing popular guidebooks in the United States ⓘ |
| notableWork |
King’s Handbook of Boston
ⓘ
King’s Handbook of New York City ⓘ King’s Handbook of the Boston Harbor ⓘ
linked to:
King’s Handbook of Boston
King’s Handbook of the United States ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
ⓘ
editor ⓘ publisher ⓘ |
| partOf | American publishing industry ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Boston
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
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: Moses King Description of subject: Moses King was an American publisher and editor best known for producing popular guidebooks and illustrated reference works in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Science (journal)