Macmillan and Co.
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Macmillan and Co. was a prominent British publishing house known for issuing influential literary works by major authors of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Macmillan and Co. canonical | 12 |
| Macmillan & Co. | 10 |
| Macmillan (London) | 2 |
| Macmillan & Co. of London | 1 |
| Macmillan (original publisher) | 1 |
| Macmillan publishing house | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2210357 — 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: Macmillan and Co. Context triple: [The Portrait of a Lady, publisher, Macmillan and Co.]
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A.
George Allen & Unwin
George Allen & Unwin was a prominent British publishing house known for releasing influential works in philosophy, literature, and academic scholarship, including major titles by authors such as Bertrand Russell and J.R.R. Tolkien.
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B.
Smith, Elder & Co.
Smith, Elder & Co. was a prominent 19th-century British publishing house known for issuing major literary works and reference titles, including the Dictionary of National Biography.
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C.
Jonathan Cape
Jonathan Cape is a renowned British publishing house best known for issuing Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels and other major 20th-century literary works.
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Faber and Faber
Faber and Faber is a renowned independent British publishing house known for its influential catalog of literary fiction, poetry, and drama.
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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.
- 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: Macmillan and Co. Target entity description: Macmillan and Co. was a prominent British publishing house known for issuing influential literary works by major authors of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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A.
George Allen & Unwin
George Allen & Unwin was a prominent British publishing house known for releasing influential works in philosophy, literature, and academic scholarship, including major titles by authors such as Bertrand Russell and J.R.R. Tolkien.
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B.
Smith, Elder & Co.
Smith, Elder & Co. was a prominent 19th-century British publishing house known for issuing major literary works and reference titles, including the Dictionary of National Biography.
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C.
Jonathan Cape
Jonathan Cape is a renowned British publishing house best known for issuing Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels and other major 20th-century literary works.
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D.
Faber and Faber
Faber and Faber is a renowned independent British publishing house known for its influential catalog of literary fiction, poetry, and drama.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: Macmillan and Co. Description of subject: Macmillan and Co. was a prominent British publishing house known for issuing influential literary works by major authors of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Referenced by (27)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Macmillan (London)
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The Elephant’s Child
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Macmillan & Co.
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Macmillan (original publisher)
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The Jungle Book
this entity surface form:
Macmillan & Co.
this entity surface form:
Macmillan publishing house
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Macmillan (London)
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Macmillan & Co. of London
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Macmillan & Co.
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Macmillan & Co.
this entity surface form:
Macmillan & Co.
this entity surface form:
Macmillan & Co.
this entity surface form:
Macmillan & Co.
this entity surface form:
Macmillan & Co.
this entity surface form:
Macmillan & Co.
this entity surface form:
Macmillan & Co.