publicationYear

P25
predicate

Indicates the specific calendar year in which a work was formally published or released.

All labels observed (160)

Label Occurrences
releaseYear 27,419
publicationYear canonical 11,163
publicationDate 9,358

Description generation (PDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the predicate name and this instruction.

Instruction
Given a predicate that represents a relationship or action between entities, generate a one-sentence description explaining its meaning.  
# Instructions
Focus on describing the relationship, not the entities themselves. 
# Response Format
Begin the description with \' Indicates...\'
Input
Predicate: publicationYear
Generated description
Indicates the specific calendar year in which a work was formally published or released.

Sample triples (57,347)

Subject Object
Children’s & Family Emmy Awards 2022 via predicate surface "firstEditionYear"
Armies of the Night 1968
Idlewild 2003
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels 1988 via predicate surface "releaseYear"
The Nightmare Before Christmas 1993 via predicate surface "releaseYear"
La Peau de chagrin 1831
Adam Bede 1859
The Mill on the Floss 1860
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter 1940 via predicate surface "publicationDate"
David Foster Wallace
surface form: Infinite Jest
1996 via predicate surface "publicationDate"
David Foster Wallace
surface form: The Pale King
2011 via predicate surface "publicationDate"
David Foster Wallace
surface form: This Is Water
2009 via predicate surface "publicationDate"
Unaccustomed Earth 2008 via predicate surface "publicationDate"
Corpse Bride 2005 via predicate surface "releaseYear"
Tom Sawyer Abroad 1894
The Lowland 2013
Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup 2016 2016 via predicate surface "startYear"
Salvation and the Church 1986
The Madness of King George 1994 via predicate surface "publicationDate"
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest 2006 via predicate surface "releaseYear"
Big 1988 via predicate surface "releaseYear"
Sully 2016 via predicate surface "releaseYear"
A League of Their Own 1992 via predicate surface "releaseYear"
Road to Perdition 2002 via predicate surface "releaseYear"
Bridge of Spies 2015 via predicate surface "releaseYear"
Greyhound 2020 via predicate surface "releaseYear"
That Thing You Do! 1996 via predicate surface "publicationDate"
That Thing You Do! 1996 via predicate surface "releaseYear"
From the Earth to the Moon 1998 via predicate surface "originalReleaseYear"
Le Père Goriot 1835
Eugénie Grandet 1833
Illusions perdues 1837 via predicate surface "firstPublicationYear"
Le Lys dans la vallée 1835
Middlemarch 1871 via predicate surface "firstPublicationYear"
Middlemarch 1874 via predicate surface "bookPublicationYear"
Daniel Deronda 1876 via predicate surface "publicationDate"
Scenes of Clerical Life 1857
Scenes of Clerical Life 1858 via predicate surface "bookPublicationYear"
Naked Lunch 1959
Dharma Bums 1958
Junkie 1953
A Good Man Is Hard to Find 1953 via predicate surface "firstPublicationYear"
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
surface form: A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
1955
A Streetcar Named Desire 1947 via predicate surface "firstPublicationYear"
Gravity’s Rainbow 1973
Gravity’s Rainbow 1973-02-28 via predicate surface "originalPublicationDate"
V.
surface form: V. (novel)
1963
Mason & Dixon 1997 via predicate surface "publicationDate"
Inherent Vice 2009-08-04 via predicate surface "publicationDate"
Inherent Vice
surface form: Inherent Vice (film)
2014 via predicate surface "releaseYear"