James Fraser
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James Fraser was a 19th-century London publisher best known for issuing early works by prominent authors, including the first book edition of Thomas Carlyle’s "Sartor Resartus."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James Fraser canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7243850 — 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: James Fraser Context triple: [Sartor Resartus, publisherOfFirstBookEdition, James Fraser]
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A.
James Fraser
James Fraser was a 19th-century Anglican bishop and social reformer who served as Bishop of Manchester and became known for his work on education and urban poverty.
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B.
Graham McTavish
Graham McTavish is a Scottish actor and voice actor best known for his roles in "Outlander," "The Hobbit" film trilogy, and various video games and television series.
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C.
Angus MacLachlan
Angus MacLachlan is an American playwright and screenwriter best known for writing the acclaimed film "Junebug."
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D.
Duncan Makenzie
Duncan Makenzie is the protagonist of Arthur C. Clarke’s science fiction novel "Imperial Earth," a third-generation colonist from Titan who becomes a key political and cultural bridge between Saturn’s moon and Earth.
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E.
Angus Sutherland
Angus Sutherland is a Canadian actor and producer, known both for his work in film and television and as a member of the Sutherland acting family.
- 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: James Fraser Target entity description: James Fraser was a 19th-century London publisher best known for issuing early works by prominent authors, including the first book edition of Thomas Carlyle’s "Sartor Resartus."
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A.
James Fraser
James Fraser was a 19th-century Anglican bishop and social reformer who served as Bishop of Manchester and became known for his work on education and urban poverty.
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B.
Graham McTavish
Graham McTavish is a Scottish actor and voice actor best known for his roles in "Outlander," "The Hobbit" film trilogy, and various video games and television series.
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C.
Angus MacLachlan
Angus MacLachlan is an American playwright and screenwriter best known for writing the acclaimed film "Junebug."
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D.
Duncan Makenzie
Duncan Makenzie is the protagonist of Arthur C. Clarke’s science fiction novel "Imperial Earth," a third-generation colonist from Titan who becomes a key political and cultural bridge between Saturn’s moon and Earth.
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E.
Angus Sutherland
Angus Sutherland is a Canadian actor and producer, known both for his work in film and television and as a member of the Sutherland acting family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (17)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
person
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publisher ⓘ |
| activeIn | 19th-century British publishing ⓘ |
| basedIn |
London
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linked to:
London, England
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| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| genrePublished |
non-fiction
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philosophical literature ⓘ |
| industry | publishing ⓘ |
| languageOfPublication | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
issuing early works by prominent authors
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publishing the first book edition of Thomas Carlyle’s "Sartor Resartus" ⓘ |
| occupation | publisher ⓘ |
| published |
"Sartor Resartus" (first book edition)
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linked to:
Sartor Resartus
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| publishedAuthor | Thomas Carlyle ⓘ |
| residence |
London
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linked to:
London, England
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| timePeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| workLocation |
London
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linked to:
London, England
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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: James Fraser Description of subject: James Fraser was a 19th-century London publisher best known for issuing early works by prominent authors, including the first book edition of Thomas Carlyle’s "Sartor Resartus."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.