Herbert S. Stone & Company
E341848
Herbert S. Stone & Company was an American publishing house active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for issuing notable literary works including Kate Chopin’s "The Awakening."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Herbert S. Stone & Company canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3249924 — 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: Herbert S. Stone & Company Context triple: [1899 – The Awakening, publisher, Herbert S. Stone & Company]
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A.
Rinehart & Company
Rinehart & Company was an American publishing house known for issuing notable mid-20th-century literary works, including major war novels and popular fiction.
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B.
Holabird & Roche
Holabird & Roche was a prominent Chicago-based architectural firm known for its influential early skyscraper designs and major civic projects in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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C.
Charles L. Webster and Company
Charles L. Webster and Company was a 19th-century American publishing firm founded by Mark Twain to publish his own works and those of other authors.
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D.
Reading Company
Reading Company was a major American railroad and coal company based in Pennsylvania, best known for operating the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad and influencing regional transportation and industry in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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E.
The Woodbridge Company
The Woodbridge Company is a Canadian private holding and investment firm that serves as the primary investment vehicle for the Thomson family, including its controlling interest in Thomson Reuters.
- 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: Herbert S. Stone & Company Target entity description: Herbert S. Stone & Company was an American publishing house active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for issuing notable literary works including Kate Chopin’s "The Awakening."
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A.
Rinehart & Company
Rinehart & Company was an American publishing house known for issuing notable mid-20th-century literary works, including major war novels and popular fiction.
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B.
Holabird & Roche
Holabird & Roche was a prominent Chicago-based architectural firm known for its influential early skyscraper designs and major civic projects in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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C.
Charles L. Webster and Company
Charles L. Webster and Company was a 19th-century American publishing firm founded by Mark Twain to publish his own works and those of other authors.
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D.
Reading Company
Reading Company was a major American railroad and coal company based in Pennsylvania, best known for operating the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad and influencing regional transportation and industry in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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E.
The Woodbridge Company
The Woodbridge Company is a Canadian private holding and investment firm that serves as the primary investment vehicle for the Thomson family, including its controlling interest in Thomson Reuters.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book publisher
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publishing house ⓘ |
| activePeriod |
early 20th century
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late 19th century ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| genreFocus | literary fiction ⓘ |
| industry | publishing ⓘ |
| knownFor | issuing notable literary works ⓘ |
| languageOfPublication | English ⓘ |
| locationCountry |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| notableAuthorPublished | Kate Chopin ⓘ |
| notableWorkPublished | The Awakening ⓘ |
| product | books ⓘ |
| publicationType |
literary works
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novels ⓘ short story collections ⓘ |
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: Herbert S. Stone & Company Description of subject: Herbert S. Stone & Company was an American publishing house active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for issuing notable literary works including Kate Chopin’s "The Awakening."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.