Harper & Brothers
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Harper & Brothers was a prominent American publishing house, founded in the early 19th century, known for releasing influential literary and historical works.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Harper & Brothers canonical | 80 |
| Harper & Brothers publications | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T78683 — 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: Harper & Brothers Context triple: [Profiles in Courage, publisher, Harper & Brothers]
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Alfred A. Knopf
Alfred A. Knopf is a prestigious American publishing house known for its high-quality literary fiction and nonfiction titles.
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Random House
Random House is a major American book publishing company known for releasing a wide range of influential fiction and nonfiction titles.
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C.
Warner Books
Warner Books was a major American publishing imprint known for releasing a wide range of popular fiction and nonfiction titles.
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Little, Brown and Company
Little, Brown and Company is a long-established American publishing house known for releasing influential works of fiction and nonfiction by prominent authors.
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E.
Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster is a major American publishing company known for producing a wide range of bestselling fiction and nonfiction books.
- 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: Harper & Brothers Target entity description: Harper & Brothers was a prominent American publishing house, founded in the early 19th century, known for releasing influential literary and historical works.
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A.
Alfred A. Knopf
Alfred A. Knopf is a prestigious American publishing house known for its high-quality literary fiction and nonfiction titles.
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B.
Random House
Random House is a major American book publishing company known for releasing a wide range of influential fiction and nonfiction titles.
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C.
Warner Books
Warner Books was a major American publishing imprint known for releasing a wide range of popular fiction and nonfiction titles.
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D.
Little, Brown and Company
Little, Brown and Company is a long-established American publishing house known for releasing influential works of fiction and nonfiction by prominent authors.
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E.
Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster is a major American publishing company known for producing a wide range of bestselling fiction and nonfiction books.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
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: Harper & Brothers Description of subject: Harper & Brothers was a prominent American publishing house, founded in the early 19th century, known for releasing influential literary and historical works.
Referenced by (81)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
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