Verso Books
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Verso Books is a leading radical and left-wing independent publishing house known for its critical works on politics, history, and social theory.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Verso Books canonical | 15 |
| New Left Books | 2 |
| Verso | 1 |
| Verso Fiction | 1 |
| Verso Futures | 1 |
| Verso Trade | 1 |
| Verso series | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1801819 — 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: Verso Books Context triple: [The Holocaust Industry, publisher, Verso Books]
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A.
Third World Press
Third World Press is a pioneering African American-owned publishing house known for promoting Black literature, culture, and political thought, particularly in connection with the Black Arts Movement.
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B.
The New Press
The New Press is an independent, nonprofit book publisher known for progressive, socially engaged works that promote education, equity, and public debate.
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C.
South End Press
South End Press was a radical, non-profit, collectively run publishing house known for producing progressive and leftist political works.
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D.
Beacon Press
Beacon Press is an independent, progressive nonprofit book publisher based in Boston known for works on social justice, critical thought, and contemporary issues.
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E.
New York Review Books
New York Review Books is an independent publishing imprint known for its curated series of classic, overlooked, and international works of literature and nonfiction.
- 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: Verso Books Target entity description: Verso Books is a leading radical and left-wing independent publishing house known for its critical works on politics, history, and social theory.
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A.
Third World Press
Third World Press is a pioneering African American-owned publishing house known for promoting Black literature, culture, and political thought, particularly in connection with the Black Arts Movement.
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B.
The New Press
The New Press is an independent, nonprofit book publisher known for progressive, socially engaged works that promote education, equity, and public debate.
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C.
South End Press
South End Press was a radical, non-profit, collectively run publishing house known for producing progressive and leftist political works.
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D.
Beacon Press
Beacon Press is an independent, progressive nonprofit book publisher based in Boston known for works on social justice, critical thought, and contemporary issues.
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E.
New York Review Books
New York Review Books is an independent publishing imprint known for its curated series of classic, overlooked, and international works of literature and nonfiction.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book publisher
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independent publisher ⓘ publishing house ⓘ |
| associatedWith | New Left Review ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| distributesIn |
Europe
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United Kingdom ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
Worldwide ⓘ |
| foundedAs |
Verso Books
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
New Left Books
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| founder | New Left Review ⓘ |
| hasImprint |
Verso Books
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Verso Fiction
Verso Books self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Verso Trade
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| hasOfficeIn | New York City ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
London, England
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surface form:
London
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| inception | 1970 ⓘ |
| languageOfPublication | English ⓘ |
| notableAuthorPublished |
Angela Davis
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Chantal Mouffe ⓘ David Harvey ⓘ Ernesto Laclau ⓘ Fredric Jameson ⓘ Judith Butler ⓘ Mike Davis ⓘ Nanni Balestrini ⓘ Perry Anderson ⓘ Slavoj Žižek ⓘ Tariq Ali ⓘ |
| notableSeries |
Mapping Futures
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Radical Thinkers ⓘ The Jacobin Series ⓘ Verso Books self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Verso Futures
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| politicalOrientation |
left-wing
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radical left ⓘ |
| publishesFormat |
ebooks
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hardback books ⓘ paperback books ⓘ |
| publishingFocus |
Marxism
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anti-colonialism ⓘ critical theory ⓘ feminism ⓘ history ⓘ international relations ⓘ left-wing politics ⓘ philosophy ⓘ political economy ⓘ radical politics ⓘ social theory ⓘ |
| website | https://www.versobooks.com ⓘ |
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: Verso Books Description of subject: Verso Books is a leading radical and left-wing independent publishing house known for its critical works on politics, history, and social theory.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Verso series
this entity surface form:
Verso
this entity surface form:
New Left Books
this entity surface form:
Verso Futures
this entity surface form:
Verso Fiction
this entity surface form:
Verso Trade
this entity surface form:
New Left Books