The Viking Press
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The Viking Press is an American publishing company known for releasing influential literary works by prominent authors throughout the 20th century.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Viking Press | 203 |
| Viking Books | 4 |
| The Viking Press canonical | 3 |
| Viking Press (for East of Eden) | 2 |
| Viking (imprint) | 1 |
| Viking Press (UK operations associated) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T455580 — 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: The Viking Press Context triple: [The Grapes of Wrath, publisher, The Viking Press]
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A.
Charles Scribner's Sons
Charles Scribner's Sons is a historic American publishing company best known for releasing works by prominent authors such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Thomas Wolfe.
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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.
Harper & Row
Harper & Row was a major American publishing house known for producing influential works in literature, education, and academic scholarship.
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D.
Pantheon Books
Pantheon Books is an American publishing imprint known for releasing influential works in politics, history, and critical theory.
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E.
Alfred A. Knopf
Alfred A. Knopf is a prestigious American publishing house known for its high-quality literary 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: The Viking Press Target entity description: The Viking Press is an American publishing company known for releasing influential literary works by prominent authors throughout the 20th century.
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A.
Charles Scribner's Sons
Charles Scribner's Sons is a historic American publishing company best known for releasing works by prominent authors such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Thomas Wolfe.
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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.
Harper & Row
Harper & Row was a major American publishing house known for producing influential works in literature, education, and academic scholarship.
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D.
Pantheon Books
Pantheon Books is an American publishing imprint known for releasing influential works in politics, history, and critical theory.
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E.
Alfred A. Knopf
Alfred A. Knopf is a prestigious American publishing house known for its high-quality literary fiction and nonfiction titles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: The Viking Press Description of subject: The Viking Press is an American publishing company known for releasing influential literary works by prominent authors throughout the 20th century.
Referenced by (214)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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subject surface form:
East of Eden
this entity surface form:
Viking Press