Thayer & Eldridge
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Thayer & Eldridge was a 19th-century American publishing firm known for issuing significant antislavery and reform literature, including Harriet Jacobs’s "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Greeley & McElrath | 1 |
| Hudson & Goodwin | 1 |
| Thayer & Eldridge canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1011354 — 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: Thayer & Eldridge Context triple: [Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, publisher, Thayer & Eldridge]
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A.
Ticknor, Reed & Fields
Ticknor, Reed & Fields was a prominent 19th-century Boston publishing firm known for issuing major works of American literature, including those by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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B.
Waddell & Hardesty
Waddell & Hardesty was an American engineering and architectural firm known for designing major steel bridges and other large-scale infrastructure projects in the early 20th century.
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C.
Holabird & Roche
Holabird & Roche was a prominent Chicago-based architectural firm known for its influential early skyscraper designs and major civic projects in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson
Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson was a prominent early 20th-century American architectural firm renowned for its Gothic Revival and collegiate designs, particularly churches and university buildings.
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E.
Delano & Aldrich
Delano & Aldrich was a prominent early 20th-century American architectural firm known for its elegant Beaux-Arts and neoclassical designs for mansions, clubs, and institutional buildings.
- 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: Thayer & Eldridge Target entity description: Thayer & Eldridge was a 19th-century American publishing firm known for issuing significant antislavery and reform literature, including Harriet Jacobs’s "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl."
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A.
Ticknor, Reed & Fields
Ticknor, Reed & Fields was a prominent 19th-century Boston publishing firm known for issuing major works of American literature, including those by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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B.
Waddell & Hardesty
Waddell & Hardesty was an American engineering and architectural firm known for designing major steel bridges and other large-scale infrastructure projects in the early 20th century.
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C.
Holabird & Roche
Holabird & Roche was a prominent Chicago-based architectural firm known for its influential early skyscraper designs and major civic projects in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson
Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson was a prominent early 20th-century American architectural firm renowned for its Gothic Revival and collegiate designs, particularly churches and university buildings.
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E.
Delano & Aldrich
Delano & Aldrich was a prominent early 20th-century American architectural firm known for its elegant Beaux-Arts and neoclassical designs for mansions, clubs, and institutional buildings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book publisher
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publishing firm ⓘ |
| activeInCentury | 19th century ⓘ |
| associatedMovement |
American abolitionist movement
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surface form:
American antislavery movement
abolitionism ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| era | pre–American Civil War period ⓘ |
| focus |
abolitionist works
ⓘ
social reform publications ⓘ |
| genre |
antislavery literature
ⓘ
reform literature ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | contributed to dissemination of abolitionist ideas in the United States ⓘ |
| industry | publishing ⓘ |
| languageOfPublication | English ⓘ |
| location | Boston, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| notableFor |
publishing antislavery literature
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publishing reform literature ⓘ |
| notablePublicationSubject |
slavery in the United States
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social reform in 19th-century America ⓘ women’s experiences under slavery ⓘ |
| operatedIn | Boston publishing scene ⓘ |
| publicationType |
books
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pamphlets ⓘ |
| publishedAuthor | Harriet Jacobs ⓘ |
| publishedWork | Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl ⓘ |
| roleInHistory | supported antislavery activism through print ⓘ |
| roleInLiterature | publisher of African American slave narrative ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Thayer & Eldridge Description of subject: Thayer & Eldridge was a 19th-century American publishing firm known for issuing significant antislavery and reform literature, including Harriet Jacobs’s "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Greeley & McElrath
this entity surface form:
Hudson & Goodwin