Richard Field (printer)
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Richard Field was an English printer and publisher of the late 16th and early 17th centuries, best known for printing several of William Shakespeare’s early works.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Richard Field (printer) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3524068 — 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: Richard Field (printer) Context triple: [Field, hasNotableBearer, Richard Field (printer)]
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A.
Robert Dodsley
Robert Dodsley was an 18th-century English bookseller, publisher, and writer who played a key role in the literary culture of his time, notably supporting and publishing major authors such as Thomas Gray and Samuel Johnson.
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B.
Richard Grafton
Richard Grafton was a 16th-century English printer and publisher best known for producing early English Bibles and serving as the king’s printer under Edward VI.
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C.
John Baskerville
John Baskerville was an 18th-century English printer and typographer renowned for his high-quality book production and the influential Baskerville typeface.
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D.
William Caxton
William Caxton was a 15th-century English merchant, diplomat, and printer best known for introducing the printing press to England and producing some of the first books printed in English.
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E.
Samuel Fielden
Samuel Fielden was a British-born American labor activist, socialist, and one of the anarchists controversially convicted in connection with the 1886 Haymarket affair in Chicago.
- 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: Richard Field (printer) Target entity description: Richard Field was an English printer and publisher of the late 16th and early 17th centuries, best known for printing several of William Shakespeare’s early works.
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A.
Robert Dodsley
Robert Dodsley was an 18th-century English bookseller, publisher, and writer who played a key role in the literary culture of his time, notably supporting and publishing major authors such as Thomas Gray and Samuel Johnson.
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B.
Richard Grafton
Richard Grafton was a 16th-century English printer and publisher best known for producing early English Bibles and serving as the king’s printer under Edward VI.
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C.
John Baskerville
John Baskerville was an 18th-century English printer and typographer renowned for his high-quality book production and the influential Baskerville typeface.
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D.
William Caxton
William Caxton was a 15th-century English merchant, diplomat, and printer best known for introducing the printing press to England and producing some of the first books printed in English.
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E.
Samuel Fielden
Samuel Fielden was a British-born American labor activist, socialist, and one of the anarchists controversially convicted in connection with the 1886 Haymarket affair in Chicago.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English printer
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person ⓘ printer ⓘ publisher ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Elizabethan literature
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linked to:
English Renaissance
Jacobean literature ⓘ London book trade ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| employer | self-employed printer-publisher ⓘ |
| era |
Elizabethan era
ⓘ
linked to:
English Renaissance
Jacobean era ⓘ
linked to:
Stuart period
|
| fieldOfWork |
book printing
ⓘ
publishing ⓘ |
| floruit |
early 17th century
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late 16th century ⓘ |
| genre |
literary works
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poetry ⓘ |
| knownFor | printing early works of William Shakespeare ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | high-quality printing of Shakespearean poems ⓘ |
| notableWork |
The Rape of Lucrece
ⓘ
Venus and Adonis ⓘ |
| occupation |
printer
ⓘ
publisher ⓘ |
| placeOfWork |
London
ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
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| printedAuthor |
William Shakespeare
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other Elizabethan poets ⓘ |
| printedWorkBy | William Shakespeare ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: Richard Field (printer) Description of subject: Richard Field was an English printer and publisher of the late 16th and early 17th centuries, best known for printing several of William Shakespeare’s early works.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.