George H. Doran Company
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George H. Doran Company was a prominent early 20th-century American publishing house known for issuing works by major authors, including popular fiction and significant literary titles.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| George H. Doran Company canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8935133 — 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: George H. Doran Company Context triple: [His Last Bow, publisher, George H. Doran Company]
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Walter H. Leimert Company
Walter H. Leimert Company was a real estate development firm best known for planning and building the Los Angeles neighborhood of Leimert Park in the early 20th century.
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O.P. and M.J. Van Sweringen Company
The O.P. and M.J. Van Sweringen Company was the real estate and development firm created by the Van Sweringen brothers, known for their large-scale suburban and railroad projects centered around Cleveland, Ohio in the early 20th century.
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C.
E. C. Nolan Company
E. C. Nolan Company was a construction firm best known for serving as the general contractor responsible for building Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor.
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Fred F. French Company
The Fred F. French Company was a prominent early 20th-century New York real estate development firm known for pioneering large-scale, planned residential complexes.
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E.
John P. Jewett & Company
John P. Jewett & Company was a 19th-century American publishing firm best known for issuing Harriet Beecher Stowe’s influential anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
- 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: George H. Doran Company Target entity description: George H. Doran Company was a prominent early 20th-century American publishing house known for issuing works by major authors, including popular fiction and significant literary titles.
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A.
Walter H. Leimert Company
Walter H. Leimert Company was a real estate development firm best known for planning and building the Los Angeles neighborhood of Leimert Park in the early 20th century.
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B.
O.P. and M.J. Van Sweringen Company
The O.P. and M.J. Van Sweringen Company was the real estate and development firm created by the Van Sweringen brothers, known for their large-scale suburban and railroad projects centered around Cleveland, Ohio in the early 20th century.
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C.
E. C. Nolan Company
E. C. Nolan Company was a construction firm best known for serving as the general contractor responsible for building Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor.
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D.
Fred F. French Company
The Fred F. French Company was a prominent early 20th-century New York real estate development firm known for pioneering large-scale, planned residential complexes.
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E.
John P. Jewett & Company
John P. Jewett & Company was a 19th-century American publishing firm best known for issuing Harriet Beecher Stowe’s influential anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book publisher
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publishing company ⓘ |
| activePeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| dissolved | 1927 ⓘ |
| fate | merged with Doubleday, Page & Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| founder | George H. Doran NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genrePublished |
literary fiction
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non-fiction ⓘ popular fiction ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | New York City ⓘ |
| inception | 1908 ⓘ |
| industry | publishing ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkPublished | English ⓘ |
| location | New York City ⓘ |
| namedAfter | George H. Doran NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAuthorPublished |
Arnold Bennett
NERFINISHED
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H. G. Wells NERFINISHED ⓘ James Branch Cabell NERFINISHED ⓘ Joseph Conrad NERFINISHED ⓘ P. G. Wodehouse NERFINISHED ⓘ Sinclair Lewis NERFINISHED ⓘ Theodore Dreiser NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWorkPublished |
H. G. Wells titles
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Joseph Conrad titles ⓘ P. G. Wodehouse titles ⓘ The Education of Henry Adams (reissues) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (English translation) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Secret Garden NERFINISHED ⓘ Winston Churchill (British statesman) speeches NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| product | books ⓘ |
| significantEvent | merger forming Doubleday, Doran & Company in 1927 ⓘ |
| specialization | American and British literature ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
| successor | Doubleday, Doran & Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeOfOperationEnd | 1927 ⓘ |
| timeOfOperationStart | 1908 ⓘ |
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: George H. Doran Company Description of subject: George H. Doran Company was a prominent early 20th-century American publishing house known for issuing works by major authors, including popular fiction and significant literary titles.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.