William Tailer
E420789
William Tailer was an early 18th-century colonial politician who briefly served as acting governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William Tailer canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4202219 — 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 Tailer Context triple: [Joseph Dudley, successor, William Tailer]
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A.
Edward Bury
Edward Bury was a 19th-century English locomotive engineer known for designing and supplying early steam engines for pioneering railways, including the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.
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B.
Richard Greatrex
Richard Greatrex is a British cinematographer best known for his Academy Award-nominated work on the film "Shakespeare in Love."
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C.
Geoffrey Unsworth
Geoffrey Unsworth was a renowned British cinematographer celebrated for his visually rich work on numerous classic films of the 1960s and 1970s.
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D.
Robert Taffy
Robert Taffy was the architect responsible for designing Mapo Hall, a historic colonial-era civic building in Ibadan, Nigeria.
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E.
Edward Saxon
Edward Saxon is an American film producer best known for his Academy Award–winning work on the psychological thriller "The Silence of the Lambs."
- 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 Tailer Target entity description: William Tailer was an early 18th-century colonial politician who briefly served as acting governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay.
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A.
Edward Bury
Edward Bury was a 19th-century English locomotive engineer known for designing and supplying early steam engines for pioneering railways, including the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.
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B.
Richard Greatrex
Richard Greatrex is a British cinematographer best known for his Academy Award-nominated work on the film "Shakespeare in Love."
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C.
Geoffrey Unsworth
Geoffrey Unsworth was a renowned British cinematographer celebrated for his visually rich work on numerous classic films of the 1960s and 1970s.
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D.
Robert Taffy
Robert Taffy was the architect responsible for designing Mapo Hall, a historic colonial-era civic building in Ibadan, Nigeria.
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E.
Edward Saxon
Edward Saxon is an American film producer best known for his Academy Award–winning work on the psychological thriller "The Silence of the Lambs."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
acting governor
ⓘ
colonial politician ⓘ person ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English colonists in North America ⓘ |
| followedBy | subsequent governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay ⓘ |
| governmentalJurisdiction | Massachusetts ⓘ |
| governmentBranch | executive ⓘ |
| historicalEra | Colonial America ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| locatedInTime | early 18th century ⓘ |
| notableFor | briefly serving as acting governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay ⓘ |
| occupation | politician ⓘ |
| officeJurisdiction | Province of Massachusetts Bay ⓘ |
| partOf |
British America
ⓘ
British colonial government in New England ⓘ
linked to:
Dominion of New England
|
| politicalEntityServed | Province of Massachusetts Bay ⓘ |
| positionHeld | acting governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay ⓘ |
| precededBy | previous governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay ⓘ |
| region | New England ⓘ |
| residence |
Boston
ⓘ
Province of Massachusetts Bay ⓘ |
| role | colonial administrator ⓘ |
| title | Acting Governor of Massachusetts Bay ⓘ |
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: William Tailer Description of subject: William Tailer was an early 18th-century colonial politician who briefly served as acting governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.