Row, Peterson and Company
E113795
Row, Peterson and Company was an American educational publishing firm that later became part of the company known as Harper & Row.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Row, Peterson and Company canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T952735 — 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: Row, Peterson and Company Context triple: [Harper & Row, predecessor, Row, Peterson and Company]
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A.
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."
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B.
John W. Parker and Son
John W. Parker and Son was a 19th-century British publishing firm known for issuing influential works of philosophy, science, and literature.
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C.
Charles L. Webster and Company
Charles L. Webster and Company was a 19th-century American publishing firm founded by Mark Twain to publish his own works and those of other authors.
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D.
William A. Read & Co.
William A. Read & Co. was an early 20th-century American investment banking firm founded by financier William A. Read that later evolved into the prominent Wall Street house Dillon, Read & Co.
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E.
Holabird & Roche
Holabird & Roche was a prominent Chicago-based architectural firm known for its influential early skyscraper designs and major civic projects in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- 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: Row, Peterson and Company Target entity description: Row, Peterson and Company was an American educational publishing firm that later became part of the company known as Harper & Row.
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A.
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."
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B.
John W. Parker and Son
John W. Parker and Son was a 19th-century British publishing firm known for issuing influential works of philosophy, science, and literature.
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C.
Charles L. Webster and Company
Charles L. Webster and Company was a 19th-century American publishing firm founded by Mark Twain to publish his own works and those of other authors.
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D.
William A. Read & Co.
William A. Read & Co. was an early 20th-century American investment banking firm founded by financier William A. Read that later evolved into the prominent Wall Street house Dillon, Read & Co.
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E.
Holabird & Roche
Holabird & Roche was a prominent Chicago-based architectural firm known for its influential early skyscraper designs and major civic projects in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | educational publishing company ⓘ |
| becamePartOf | Harper & Row ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| industry |
educational publishing
ⓘ
publishing ⓘ |
| locationCountry | United States of America ⓘ |
| notableWorkArea | school textbooks ⓘ |
| productType |
educational books
ⓘ
textbooks ⓘ |
| successor | Harper & Row ⓘ |
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: Row, Peterson and Company Description of subject: Row, Peterson and Company was an American educational publishing firm that later became part of the company known as Harper & Row.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.