Houghton Mifflin
E23328
Houghton Mifflin is a major American publishing company known for its educational materials, textbooks, and notable works of fiction and non-fiction.
All labels observed (9)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T173784 — 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: Houghton Mifflin Context triple: [In the Shadow of Man, publisher, Houghton Mifflin]
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A.
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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B.
G. P. Putnam’s Sons
G. P. Putnam’s Sons is a long-established American publishing house known for producing a wide range of fiction and nonfiction titles.
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C.
Charles Scribner's Sons
Charles Scribner's Sons is a historic American publishing company best known for releasing works by prominent authors such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Thomas Wolfe.
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D.
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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E.
Harper & Brothers
Harper & Brothers was a prominent American publishing house, founded in the early 19th century, known for releasing influential literary 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: Houghton Mifflin Target entity description: Houghton Mifflin is a major American publishing company known for its educational materials, textbooks, and notable works of fiction and non-fiction.
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A.
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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B.
G. P. Putnam’s Sons
G. P. Putnam’s Sons is a long-established American publishing house known for producing a wide range of fiction and nonfiction titles.
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C.
Charles Scribner's Sons
Charles Scribner's Sons is a historic American publishing company best known for releasing works by prominent authors such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Thomas Wolfe.
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D.
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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E.
Harper & Brothers
Harper & Brothers was a prominent American publishing house, founded in the early 19th century, known for releasing influential literary and historical works.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book publisher
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educational publisher ⓘ publishing company ⓘ |
| basedIn | New England ⓘ |
| brand |
Houghton Mifflin
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Riverside ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| foundedBy |
George Harrison Mifflin
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Henry Oscar Houghton ⓘ |
| hasImprint |
HMH Books for Young Readers
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Houghton Mifflin self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Houghton Mifflin Books
Mariner Books ⓘ |
| hasPublicationType |
biography
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children's literature ⓘ history ⓘ language arts textbooks ⓘ literary fiction ⓘ mathematics textbooks ⓘ science textbooks ⓘ social studies textbooks ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Boston, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| inception | 1880 ⓘ |
| industry |
educational publishing
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publishing ⓘ textbook publishing ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| locationCity |
Boston, Massachusetts
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surface form:
Boston
|
| locationCountry |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| locationState | Massachusetts ⓘ |
| notableWorkArea |
K–12 education
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college textbooks ⓘ fiction books ⓘ non-fiction books ⓘ reference works ⓘ |
| predecessor |
Hurd & Houghton
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Riverside Press ⓘ |
| product |
assessment materials
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educational software ⓘ teacher resources ⓘ textbooks ⓘ trade books ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
general readers
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schools ⓘ students ⓘ teachers ⓘ |
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: Houghton Mifflin Description of subject: Houghton Mifflin is a major American publishing company known for its educational materials, textbooks, and notable works of fiction and non-fiction.
Referenced by (114)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
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publisher
→
Houghton Mifflin
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this entity surface form:
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
this entity surface form:
Houghton Mifflin Company
this entity surface form:
Houghton Mifflin Company