Charles Wiley
E444577
Charles Wiley was a 19th-century American publisher known for issuing early works of major authors, including James Fenimore Cooper’s novel "The Spy."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Charles Wiley canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4209013 — 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: Charles Wiley Context triple: [The Spy, firstPublisher, Charles Wiley]
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A.
Fred M. Wilcox
Fred M. Wilcox was an American film director best known for the science fiction classic "Forbidden Planet" and the family film "Lassie Come Home."
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B.
Charles Alton Ellis
Charles Alton Ellis was an American structural engineer best known for performing the complex mathematical and design work that made the Golden Gate Bridge possible.
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C.
Kent L. Wakeford
Kent L. Wakeford was an American cinematographer known for his work on influential 1970s films, particularly in collaboration with director Martin Scorsese.
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D.
Robert N. Fitch
Robert N. Fitch was a composer best known for writing the University of California fight song "Fight for California."
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E.
John C. Wells
John C. Wells is a prominent British phonetician and phonologist known for his influential work on English accents and pronunciation, including his analyses of BBC English.
- 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: Charles Wiley Target entity description: Charles Wiley was a 19th-century American publisher known for issuing early works of major authors, including James Fenimore Cooper’s novel "The Spy."
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A.
Fred M. Wilcox
Fred M. Wilcox was an American film director best known for the science fiction classic "Forbidden Planet" and the family film "Lassie Come Home."
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B.
Charles Alton Ellis
Charles Alton Ellis was an American structural engineer best known for performing the complex mathematical and design work that made the Golden Gate Bridge possible.
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C.
Kent L. Wakeford
Kent L. Wakeford was an American cinematographer known for his work on influential 1970s films, particularly in collaboration with director Martin Scorsese.
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D.
Robert N. Fitch
Robert N. Fitch was a composer best known for writing the University of California fight song "Fight for California."
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E.
John C. Wells
John C. Wells is a prominent British phonetician and phonologist known for his influential work on English accents and pronunciation, including his analyses of BBC English.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
publisher ⓘ |
| activeInCentury | 19th century ⓘ |
| associatedWith | James Fenimore Cooper ⓘ |
| basedIn | United States of America ⓘ |
| businessDivision | book trade ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer |
Wiley (publishing company)
ⓘ
linked to:
John Wiley & Sons
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| fieldOfWork | book publishing ⓘ |
| genre | literary publishing ⓘ |
| hasPart | early American literary titles he issued ⓘ |
| industry | publishing industry ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
contributing to early American literature through publishing
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issuing early works of major authors in the 19th century ⓘ |
| notableWork |
early editions of works by major American authors
ⓘ
publication of James Fenimore Cooper’s novel "The Spy" ⓘ |
| occupation | publisher ⓘ |
| publisherOf |
"The Spy" by James Fenimore Cooper
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linked to:
The Spy
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| workLocation | New York City ⓘ |
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: Charles Wiley Description of subject: Charles Wiley was a 19th-century American publisher known for issuing early works of major authors, including James Fenimore Cooper’s novel "The Spy."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.