Williams and Norgate
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Williams and Norgate was a British publishing firm active in the 19th and early 20th centuries, known for issuing scholarly, philosophical, and scientific works.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Williams and Norgate canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T204119 — 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: Williams and Norgate Context triple: [The Problems of Philosophy, firstPublisher, Williams and Norgate]
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A.
Sutton Place
Sutton Place is an affluent residential neighborhood on Manhattan’s East Side, known for its elegant townhouses, river views, and quiet, exclusive character.
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B.
Castlefield
Castlefield is a historic urban area in Manchester, England, known for its preserved industrial heritage, canals, and Roman origins.
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C.
Ochre Court
Ochre Court is a grand Gilded Age mansion in Newport, Rhode Island, renowned for its elaborate French chateau–style architecture and role as a symbol of America’s turn-of-the-century opulence.
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D.
Stormont Estate
Stormont Estate is a prominent governmental and parkland complex in Belfast that houses the Northern Ireland Assembly and various official buildings within extensive landscaped grounds.
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E.
Agecroft
Agecroft is a district in Pendlebury, Greater Manchester, England, historically known for its industrial heritage and riverside location.
- 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: Williams and Norgate Target entity description: Williams and Norgate was a British publishing firm active in the 19th and early 20th centuries, known for issuing scholarly, philosophical, and scientific works.
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A.
Sutton Place
Sutton Place is an affluent residential neighborhood on Manhattan’s East Side, known for its elegant townhouses, river views, and quiet, exclusive character.
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B.
Castlefield
Castlefield is a historic urban area in Manchester, England, known for its preserved industrial heritage, canals, and Roman origins.
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C.
Ochre Court
Ochre Court is a grand Gilded Age mansion in Newport, Rhode Island, renowned for its elaborate French chateau–style architecture and role as a symbol of America’s turn-of-the-century opulence.
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D.
Stormont Estate
Stormont Estate is a prominent governmental and parkland complex in Belfast that houses the Northern Ireland Assembly and various official buildings within extensive landscaped grounds.
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E.
Agecroft
Agecroft is a district in Pendlebury, Greater Manchester, England, historically known for its industrial heritage and riverside location.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British publisher
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publishing company ⓘ |
| activeInCentury |
19th century
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20th century ⓘ |
| businessType | firm ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| era |
Edwardian era
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Victorian era ⓘ |
| industry | publishing ⓘ |
| languageOfPublication | English ⓘ |
| location |
London, England
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surface form:
London
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| market |
academic readers
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philosophical community ⓘ scientific community ⓘ |
| notableFor | issuing scholarly, philosophical, and scientific literature ⓘ |
| product | books ⓘ |
| publicationType |
academic texts
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monographs ⓘ treatises ⓘ |
| publishingFormat | hardcover books ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Europe
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Great Britain ⓘ |
| specialization |
philosophical works
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scholarly works ⓘ scientific works ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
| subjectFocus |
humanities
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philosophy ⓘ science ⓘ |
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: Williams and Norgate Description of subject: Williams and Norgate was a British publishing firm active in the 19th and early 20th centuries, known for issuing scholarly, philosophical, and scientific works.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
chapter "On Our Knowledge of General Principles"
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publisherOfContainingWork
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Williams and Norgate
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subject surface form:
On Our Knowledge of General Principles