Modern Library
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Modern Library is a classic American publishing imprint known for issuing affordable editions of important works of world literature.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Modern Library canonical | 5 |
| Modern Library 100 best novels list | 1 |
| Modern Library Chronicles | 1 |
| Modern Library Classics | 1 |
| Modern Library edition | 1 |
| The Modern Library | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T395332 — 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: Modern Library Context triple: [Random House, predecessor, Modern Library]
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A.
New York Public Library
The New York Public Library is one of the largest public library systems in the world, renowned for its extensive collections, iconic Beaux-Arts main branch in Manhattan, and role as a major cultural and research institution.
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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.
Mid-Manhattan Library
The Mid-Manhattan Library is a major circulating branch of the New York Public Library system in Manhattan, known for its extensive general-interest collections and public services.
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D.
Founders Library
Founders Library is the iconic main research library of Howard University and a historic landmark of African American scholarship in Washington, D.C.
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E.
Hayden Library
Hayden Library is the main humanities and science library at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, serving as a central hub for research and study on campus.
- 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: Modern Library Target entity description: Modern Library is a classic American publishing imprint known for issuing affordable editions of important works of world literature.
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A.
New York Public Library
The New York Public Library is one of the largest public library systems in the world, renowned for its extensive collections, iconic Beaux-Arts main branch in Manhattan, and role as a major cultural and research institution.
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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.
Mid-Manhattan Library
The Mid-Manhattan Library is a major circulating branch of the New York Public Library system in Manhattan, known for its extensive general-interest collections and public services.
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D.
Founders Library
Founders Library is the iconic main research library of Howard University and a historic landmark of African American scholarship in Washington, D.C.
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E.
Hayden Library
Hayden Library is the main humanities and science library at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, serving as a central hub for research and study on campus.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book series
ⓘ
publishing imprint ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| distributionArea |
North America
ⓘ
international ⓘ |
| focus |
classic literature
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world literature ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
ⓘ
fiction ⓘ nonfiction ⓘ poetry ⓘ |
| hasFormat |
e-books
ⓘ
print books ⓘ |
| industry | publishing ⓘ |
| languageOfPublication | English ⓘ |
| notableList |
Modern Library 100 Best Novels (reader's list)
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surface form:
Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction
Modern Library 100 Best Novels (reader's list) ⓘ
surface form:
Modern Library 100 Best Novels
|
| notableSeries |
Modern Library
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Modern Library Classics
Modern Library self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
The Modern Library
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| parentOrganization |
Penguin Random House
ⓘ
Random House ⓘ |
| product | affordable editions of classic works ⓘ |
| publishes |
hardcover books
ⓘ
paperback books ⓘ |
| reputation | prestigious American classics imprint ⓘ |
| subjectArea |
humanities
ⓘ
literature ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
general readers
ⓘ
scholars ⓘ students ⓘ |
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: Modern Library Description of subject: Modern Library is a classic American publishing imprint known for issuing affordable editions of important works of world literature.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Modern Library 100 best novels list
this entity surface form:
Modern Library Chronicles
this entity surface form:
Modern Library Classics
this entity surface form:
The Modern Library
this entity surface form:
Modern Library edition