Elsevier
E91281
Elsevier is a major Dutch academic publishing company known for producing and distributing scientific, technical, and medical journals, books, and research databases worldwide.
All labels observed (10)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Elsevier canonical | 41 |
| Reed Elsevier | 3 |
| Elsevier publishing house | 2 |
| Elsevier (Elzevir family) | 1 |
| Elsevier B.V. | 1 |
| Elsevier NV | 1 |
| Elsevier electronic products | 1 |
| Elsevier family of printers | 1 |
| Elsevier journals | 1 |
| Elsevier research intelligence products | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T768173 — 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: Elsevier Context triple: [Scopus, operatedBy, Elsevier]
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A.
Wiley-Blackwell
Wiley-Blackwell is a major academic and professional publishing company known for producing scholarly journals and books across a wide range of disciplines.
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B.
Springer
Springer is a major global academic publishing company known for its extensive catalog of scientific, technical, and medical books and journals.
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C.
Wiley-VCH
Wiley-VCH is a German-based scientific publishing company known for producing leading journals and books in physics, chemistry, and related fields.
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D.
Wiley Online Library
Wiley Online Library is a major digital platform providing access to a wide range of scholarly journals, books, and reference works across numerous academic disciplines.
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E.
IOP Publishing
IOP Publishing is a leading scientific publisher specializing in physics and related disciplines, producing journals, books, and conference proceedings for the global research community.
- 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: Elsevier Target entity description: Elsevier is a major Dutch academic publishing company known for producing and distributing scientific, technical, and medical journals, books, and research databases worldwide.
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A.
Wiley-Blackwell
Wiley-Blackwell is a major academic and professional publishing company known for producing scholarly journals and books across a wide range of disciplines.
-
B.
Springer
Springer is a major global academic publishing company known for its extensive catalog of scientific, technical, and medical books and journals.
-
C.
Wiley-VCH
Wiley-VCH is a German-based scientific publishing company known for producing leading journals and books in physics, chemistry, and related fields.
-
D.
Wiley Online Library
Wiley Online Library is a major digital platform providing access to a wide range of scholarly journals, books, and reference works across numerous academic disciplines.
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E.
IOP Publishing
IOP Publishing is a leading scientific publisher specializing in physics and related disciplines, producing journals, books, and conference proceedings for the global research community.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic publishing company
ⓘ
multinational company ⓘ |
| abbreviation | Elsevier self-link ⓘ |
| country | Netherlands ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
STM fields
ⓘ
peer-reviewed content ⓘ |
| formerName |
Elsevier
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Elsevier NV
|
| foundedBy | Louis Elsevier ⓘ |
| hasBusinessModel |
hybrid open access
ⓘ
subscription-based access ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Amsterdam ⓘ |
| inception | 1880 ⓘ |
| industry |
academic publishing
ⓘ
information analytics ⓘ medical publishing ⓘ scientific publishing ⓘ technical publishing ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| legalForm | subsidiary ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Cell
ⓘ
Current Opinion series ⓘ The Lancet ⓘ |
| offersService |
article submission systems
ⓘ
bibliometric analytics ⓘ journal hosting ⓘ research performance evaluation tools ⓘ |
| operates |
ClinicalKey
ⓘ
EndNote ⓘ
surface form:
Mendeley
Reaxys ⓘ SciVal ⓘ ScienceDirect ⓘ Scopus ⓘ |
| parentCompany | RELX Group ⓘ |
| partOf |
RELX Group
ⓘ
surface form:
RELX STM division
|
| products |
academic books
ⓘ
online platforms ⓘ open access journals ⓘ reference works ⓘ research databases ⓘ scientific journals ⓘ |
| publishes |
conference proceedings
ⓘ
medical research articles ⓘ scientific research articles ⓘ technical research articles ⓘ textbooks ⓘ |
| scope | global ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
corporate R&D organizations
ⓘ
hospitals ⓘ researchers ⓘ universities ⓘ |
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: Elsevier Description of subject: Elsevier is a major Dutch academic publishing company known for producing and distributing scientific, technical, and medical journals, books, and research databases worldwide.
Referenced by (53)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Elsevier journals
this entity surface form:
Reed Elsevier
this entity surface form:
Elsevier NV
subject surface form:
Third Day (Two New Sciences)
this entity surface form:
Elsevier (Elzevir family)
this entity surface form:
Reed Elsevier
this entity surface form:
Reed Elsevier
this entity surface form:
Elsevier electronic products
this entity surface form:
Elsevier publishing house
this entity surface form:
Elsevier publishing house
this entity surface form:
Elsevier family of printers
this entity surface form:
Elsevier research intelligence products