Coward-McCann
E1020537
Coward-McCann was an American publishing company known for releasing a range of notable literary works in the mid-20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Coward-McCann canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13079934 — 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: Coward-McCann Context triple: [Desolation Angels, publisher, Coward-McCann]
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A.
McCann
McCann is a central, enigmatic character in Harold Pinter’s play "The Birthday Party," known for his menacing presence and ambiguous motives.
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B.
Brackman
Brackman is a character in John Grisham’s legal thriller novel "The Street Lawyer," involved in the story’s exploration of law, morality, and homelessness.
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C.
Burdine
Burdine is the respondent in the U.S. Supreme Court employment discrimination case Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine, which clarified the burden of proof framework in Title VII disparate treatment claims.
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D.
Rascoff
Rascoff is the surname of Spencer Rascoff, an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and former CEO of Zillow.
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E.
Harveys
Harveys is a casino and hotel brand best known for its flagship resort on the south shore of Lake Tahoe, offering gaming, entertainment, and lodging.
- 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: Coward-McCann Target entity description: Coward-McCann was an American publishing company known for releasing a range of notable literary works in the mid-20th century.
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A.
McCann
McCann is a central, enigmatic character in Harold Pinter’s play "The Birthday Party," known for his menacing presence and ambiguous motives.
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B.
Brackman
Brackman is a character in John Grisham’s legal thriller novel "The Street Lawyer," involved in the story’s exploration of law, morality, and homelessness.
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C.
Burdine
Burdine is the respondent in the U.S. Supreme Court employment discrimination case Texas Department of Community Affairs v. Burdine, which clarified the burden of proof framework in Title VII disparate treatment claims.
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D.
Rascoff
Rascoff is the surname of Spencer Rascoff, an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and former CEO of Zillow.
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E.
Harveys
Harveys is a casino and hotel brand best known for its flagship resort on the south shore of Lake Tahoe, offering gaming, entertainment, and lodging.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (14)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American company
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publishing company ⓘ |
| activePeriod | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| basedIn |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| genrePublished |
literary fiction
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non-fiction ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfPublication | English ⓘ |
| industry | book publishing ⓘ |
| locationCountry |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| notableFor | publishing literary works ⓘ |
| operatedInCentury | 20th century ⓘ |
| product | books ⓘ |
| workField | literature ⓘ |
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: Coward-McCann Description of subject: Coward-McCann was an American publishing company known for releasing a range of notable literary works in the mid-20th century.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Our Town (play)
subject linked to:
Therese Belivet (novel character)
subject linked to:
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955 novel)