Peter Davies
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Peter Davies was a British publishing house known for issuing notable literary works, including mid-20th-century fiction and historical novels.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Peter Davies canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11076509 — 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: Peter Davies Context triple: [The Daughter of Time, publisher, Peter Davies]
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A.
Peter Davies
Peter Davies is a film editor best known for his work on the James Bond movie "A View to a Kill."
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B.
Phil Davies
Phil Davies is a British television producer best known for his work on the popular animated children's series "Peppa Pig."
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C.
Peter Griffiths
Peter Griffiths is a screenwriter best known for his work on the 2003 action thriller film "The Hunted."
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D.
James Grenning
James Grenning is a software engineer, author, and trainer known for his contributions to Agile development practices and embedded software engineering.
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E.
Philip Nye
Philip Nye was a prominent 17th-century English Independent minister and theologian influential in the religious and political upheavals of the English Civil War era.
- 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: Peter Davies Target entity description: Peter Davies was a British publishing house known for issuing notable literary works, including mid-20th-century fiction and historical novels.
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A.
Peter Davies
Peter Davies is a film editor best known for his work on the James Bond movie "A View to a Kill."
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B.
Phil Davies
Phil Davies is a British television producer best known for his work on the popular animated children's series "Peppa Pig."
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C.
Peter Griffiths
Peter Griffiths is a screenwriter best known for his work on the 2003 action thriller film "The Hunted."
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D.
James Grenning
James Grenning is a software engineer, author, and trainer known for his contributions to Agile development practices and embedded software engineering.
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E.
Philip Nye
Philip Nye was a prominent 17th-century English Independent minister and theologian influential in the religious and political upheavals of the English Civil War era.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
company
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publishing house ⓘ |
| country |
Great Britain
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| field | book publishing ⓘ |
| hasGenreFocus |
historical novels
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literary fiction ⓘ |
| hasPublicationFormat |
hardcover books
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paperback books ⓘ |
| industry | publishing ⓘ |
| knownFor |
issuing notable literary works
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publishing historical novels ⓘ publishing mid-20th-century fiction ⓘ |
| languageOfPublication | English ⓘ |
| locationCountry | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Peter Llewelyn Davies ⓘ |
| notableWorkType |
historical fiction
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mid-20th-century fiction ⓘ |
| operatedInCentury | 20th century ⓘ |
| parentCompany |
Collins
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HarperCollins ⓘ |
| product |
books
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fiction books ⓘ historical novels ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
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: Peter Davies Description of subject: Peter Davies was a British publishing house known for issuing notable literary works, including mid-20th-century fiction and historical novels.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Josephine Tey’s novel "The Daughter of Time"