Rowman & Littlefield
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Rowman & Littlefield is an independent academic and professional publishing group known for its scholarly books, textbooks, and reference works across the humanities and social sciences.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rowman & Littlefield Education | 2 |
| Rowman & Littlefield Publishers | 2 |
| Greenwood Press | 1 |
| Rowman & Littlefield canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1406973 — 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: Rowman & Littlefield Context triple: [Prometheus Books, acquiredBy, Rowman & Littlefield]
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A.
Carroll & Graf
Carroll & Graf was an American publishing imprint known for its eclectic catalog of literary fiction, crime novels, and nonfiction titles.
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B.
Signet Press
Signet Press is an influential Indian publishing house known for producing high-quality literary and historical works, including major titles of the independence era.
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C.
Riverside Press
Riverside Press was a prominent 19th- and early 20th-century American printing and publishing house based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, known for its high-quality book production.
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D.
Westview Press
Westview Press is an academic publishing imprint known for producing scholarly and educational books, particularly in the social sciences and humanities.
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E.
Regnery Publishing
Regnery Publishing is a prominent American conservative book publisher known for releasing influential right-leaning political and historical works.
- 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: Rowman & Littlefield Target entity description: Rowman & Littlefield is an independent academic and professional publishing group known for its scholarly books, textbooks, and reference works across the humanities and social sciences.
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A.
Carroll & Graf
Carroll & Graf was an American publishing imprint known for its eclectic catalog of literary fiction, crime novels, and nonfiction titles.
-
B.
Signet Press
Signet Press is an influential Indian publishing house known for producing high-quality literary and historical works, including major titles of the independence era.
-
C.
Riverside Press
Riverside Press was a prominent 19th- and early 20th-century American printing and publishing house based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, known for its high-quality book production.
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D.
Westview Press
Westview Press is an academic publishing imprint known for producing scholarly and educational books, particularly in the social sciences and humanities.
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E.
Regnery Publishing
Regnery Publishing is a prominent American conservative book publisher known for releasing influential right-leaning political and historical works.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic publisher
ⓘ
independent publisher ⓘ publishing company ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| distributes | books for other publishers ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
humanities
ⓘ
social sciences ⓘ |
| foundedAs |
Rowman & Littlefield
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
|
| hasImprint |
AltaMira Press
ⓘ
Lexington Books ⓘ National Book Network ⓘ Rowman & Littlefield self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Rowman & Littlefield Education
Rowman & Littlefield self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Scarecrow Press ⓘ Sheed & Ward ⓘ University Press of America ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Lanham, Maryland ⓘ |
| industry | book publishing ⓘ |
| knownFor | scholarly publishing in humanities and social sciences ⓘ |
| languageOfPublication | English ⓘ |
| market |
academic
ⓘ
library ⓘ professional ⓘ |
| offers |
e-books
ⓘ
print books ⓘ |
| operates | as an independent company ⓘ |
| parentCompanyOf |
AltaMira Press
ⓘ
Lexington Books ⓘ National Book Network ⓘ Rowman & Littlefield self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Rowman & Littlefield Education
Scarecrow Press ⓘ Sheed & Ward ⓘ University Press of America ⓘ |
| publishes |
professional books
ⓘ
reference works ⓘ scholarly books ⓘ textbooks ⓘ |
| subjectArea |
cultural studies
ⓘ
education ⓘ history ⓘ philosophy ⓘ political science ⓘ religious studies ⓘ sociology ⓘ |
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: Rowman & Littlefield Description of subject: Rowman & Littlefield is an independent academic and professional publishing group known for its scholarly books, textbooks, and reference works across the humanities and social sciences.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Greenwood Press
this entity surface form:
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
this entity surface form:
Rowman & Littlefield Education
this entity surface form:
Rowman & Littlefield Education
this entity surface form:
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers