William Maxwell Evarts Perkins
E444492
William Maxwell Evarts Perkins, better known as Maxwell Perkins, was a legendary American book editor famed for nurturing the careers of authors like F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Thomas Wolfe.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William Maxwell Evarts Perkins canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4470079 — 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 Maxwell Evarts Perkins Context triple: [Maxwell Perkins, fullName, William Maxwell Evarts Perkins]
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George Templeton Strong
George Templeton Strong was a prominent 19th-century New York lawyer and diarist whose detailed journals provide a major firsthand account of American social and political life during the Civil War era.
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B.
Joseph Hodges Choate
Joseph Hodges Choate was a prominent American lawyer and diplomat best known for serving as U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom at the turn of the 20th century.
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C.
William Tilden Blodgett
William Tilden Blodgett was a 19th-century American art collector and civic leader who played a key role in establishing New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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D.
Rufus M. Porter
Rufus M. Porter was a 19th-century American inventor, painter, and publisher best known for founding the influential magazine Scientific American.
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E.
Henry Gannett
Henry Gannett was an American geographer and cartographer known as the “Father of American Mapmaking” and a founding figure in modern American geography.
- 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 Maxwell Evarts Perkins Target entity description: William Maxwell Evarts Perkins, better known as Maxwell Perkins, was a legendary American book editor famed for nurturing the careers of authors like F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Thomas Wolfe.
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A.
George Templeton Strong
George Templeton Strong was a prominent 19th-century New York lawyer and diarist whose detailed journals provide a major firsthand account of American social and political life during the Civil War era.
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B.
Joseph Hodges Choate
Joseph Hodges Choate was a prominent American lawyer and diplomat best known for serving as U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom at the turn of the 20th century.
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C.
William Tilden Blodgett
William Tilden Blodgett was a 19th-century American art collector and civic leader who played a key role in establishing New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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D.
Rufus M. Porter
Rufus M. Porter was a 19th-century American inventor, painter, and publisher best known for founding the influential magazine Scientific American.
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E.
Henry Gannett
Henry Gannett was an American geographer and cartographer known as the “Father of American Mapmaking” and a founding figure in modern American geography.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: William Maxwell Evarts Perkins Description of subject: William Maxwell Evarts Perkins, better known as Maxwell Perkins, was a legendary American book editor famed for nurturing the careers of authors like F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Thomas Wolfe.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.