Penguin Random House
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Penguin Random House is a major global trade book publisher known for its extensive catalog of fiction and nonfiction titles across numerous imprints.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T279805 — 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)
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Target entity: Penguin Random House Context triple: [No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference, publisher, Penguin Random House]
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A.
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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B.
Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster is a major American publishing company known for producing a wide range of bestselling fiction and nonfiction books.
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C.
Hachette Book Group
Hachette Book Group is a major U.S. trade publishing company and division of the French media conglomerate Hachette Livre, known for publishing a wide range of bestselling fiction and nonfiction titles.
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D.
Perseus Books Group
Perseus Books Group is an American publishing company known for its diverse portfolio of imprints and distribution services for independent publishers.
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E.
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.
- 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: Penguin Random House Target entity description: Penguin Random House is a major global trade book publisher known for its extensive catalog of fiction and nonfiction titles across numerous imprints.
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A.
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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B.
Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster is a major American publishing company known for producing a wide range of bestselling fiction and nonfiction books.
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C.
Hachette Book Group
Hachette Book Group is a major U.S. trade publishing company and division of the French media conglomerate Hachette Livre, known for publishing a wide range of bestselling fiction and nonfiction titles.
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D.
Perseus Books Group
Perseus Books Group is an American publishing company known for its diverse portfolio of imprints and distribution services for independent publishers.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (73)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book publisher
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publishing company ⓘ trade publisher ⓘ |
| areaServed | worldwide ⓘ |
| country |
Germany
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United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| focusesOn |
general-interest books
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trade publishing ⓘ |
| formedByMergerOf |
Penguin Group
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Random House ⓘ |
| hasDivision |
Crown Publishers
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surface form:
Crown Publishing Group
Penguin Books ⓘ
surface form:
Penguin Publishing Group
Random House ⓘ
surface form:
Random House Publishing Group
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| hasImprint |
Alfred A. Knopf
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Anchor Books ⓘ Ballantine Books ⓘ Bantam Books ⓘ Berkley Books ⓘ Clarkson Potter ⓘ Crown Publishers ⓘ
surface form:
Crown Publishing Group
DK ⓘ Del Rey Books ⓘ Delacorte Press ⓘ Dorling Kindersley ⓘ Dutton ⓘ Everyman's Library ⓘ Fodor's Travel ⓘ Alfred A. Knopf ⓘ
surface form:
Knopf
Penguin Books ⓘ Penguin Classics series ⓘ
surface form:
Penguin Classics
Portfolio ⓘ Puffin Books ⓘ Putnam ⓘ Random House ⓘ
surface form:
Random House Books
Razorbill ⓘ Riverhead Books ⓘ Schocken Books ⓘ TarcherPerigee ⓘ Ten Speed Press ⓘ Viking ⓘ The Viking Press ⓘ
surface form:
Viking Press
Vintage Books ⓘ Watson-Guptill ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
New York
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New York City ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| inception | 2013 ⓘ |
| industry |
book publishing
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media ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
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French ⓘ German ⓘ Portuguese ⓘ Spanish ⓘ |
| notableFor |
large catalog of fiction titles
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large catalog of nonfiction titles ⓘ numerous publishing imprints ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Bertelsmann ⓘ |
| parentCompany | Bertelsmann ⓘ |
| partOf |
Bertelsmann
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surface form:
Bertelsmann Content Alliance
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| predecessor |
Penguin Group
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Random House ⓘ |
| product |
audiobooks
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children's books ⓘ e-books ⓘ fiction books ⓘ nonfiction books ⓘ |
| subsidiary |
Penguin Random House
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Penguin Random House Australia
Penguin Random House self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Penguin Random House Canada
Penguin Random House self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Penguin Random House self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Penguin Random House India
Penguin Random House self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Penguin Random House UK
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| website | https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/ ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Penguin Random House Description of subject: Penguin Random House is a major global trade book publisher known for its extensive catalog of fiction and nonfiction titles across numerous imprints.
Referenced by (123)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Penguin General
this entity surface form:
Penguin Random House UK
subject surface form:
Penguin General
this entity surface form:
Penguin Random House UK adult publishing
this entity surface form:
Penguin Random House UK
this entity surface form:
Random House
this entity surface form:
Penguin Random House Canada
this entity surface form:
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial (global structure)
subject surface form:
Vintage Books
this entity surface form:
#Merky Books imprint with Penguin Random House