Thomas Taylor
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Thomas Taylor was an 18th–19th century English Neoplatonist scholar and translator known for rendering many ancient Greek philosophical and religious texts, including the Orphic Hymns, into English.
All labels observed (1)
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| Thomas Taylor canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5125137 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Taylor Context triple: [Orphic Hymns, modernEditionBy, Thomas Taylor]
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William Taylor
William Taylor was an early 18th-century London bookseller and publisher best known for issuing the first edition of Daniel Defoe’s novel "Robinson Crusoe."
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John Ternouth
John Ternouth was a 19th-century British sculptor best known for creating the bronze reliefs that adorn Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square, London.
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Charles Hamilton Smith
Charles Hamilton Smith was a 19th-century British soldier, naturalist, illustrator, and zoologist known for his detailed studies and depictions of animals.
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Thomas Attwood
Thomas Attwood was an English composer, organist, and pupil of Mozart who served as a prominent church musician in late 18th- and early 19th-century Britain.
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E.
James Hervey
James Hervey was an 18th-century English clergyman and devotional writer best known for his meditative, melancholic religious works that helped define the Graveyard school of poetry.
- 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: Thomas Taylor Target entity description: Thomas Taylor was an 18th–19th century English Neoplatonist scholar and translator known for rendering many ancient Greek philosophical and religious texts, including the Orphic Hymns, into English.
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A.
William Taylor
William Taylor was an early 18th-century London bookseller and publisher best known for issuing the first edition of Daniel Defoe’s novel "Robinson Crusoe."
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B.
John Ternouth
John Ternouth was a 19th-century British sculptor best known for creating the bronze reliefs that adorn Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square, London.
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C.
Charles Hamilton Smith
Charles Hamilton Smith was a 19th-century British soldier, naturalist, illustrator, and zoologist known for his detailed studies and depictions of animals.
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D.
Thomas Attwood
Thomas Attwood was an English composer, organist, and pupil of Mozart who served as a prominent church musician in late 18th- and early 19th-century Britain.
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E.
James Hervey
James Hervey was an 18th-century English clergyman and devotional writer best known for his meditative, melancholic religious works that helped define the Graveyard school of poetry.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Neoplatonist
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classicist ⓘ human ⓘ philosopher ⓘ translator ⓘ |
| activePeriod |
18th century
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19th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Neoplatonic studies
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ancient Greek philosophy ⓘ classical studies ⓘ religious philosophy ⓘ |
| genre |
philosophical translation
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religious text translation ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | Neoplatonism ⓘ |
| name | Thomas Taylor ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
popularizing Neoplatonism in the English-speaking world
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rendering ancient Greek philosophical texts into English ⓘ rendering ancient Greek religious texts into English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
translation of the Orphic Hymns
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translations of Aristotle ⓘ translations of Plato ⓘ translations of Plotinus ⓘ translations of Proclus ⓘ |
| occupation |
classicist
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philosopher ⓘ scholar ⓘ translator ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLanguage | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
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: Thomas Taylor Description of subject: Thomas Taylor was an 18th–19th century English Neoplatonist scholar and translator known for rendering many ancient Greek philosophical and religious texts, including the Orphic Hymns, into English.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.