Scholastic Corporation
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Scholastic Corporation is a major American publishing and media company best known for producing and distributing children's books and educational materials, including the U.S. editions of the Harry Potter series.
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Scholastic Corporation canonical | 9 |
| Scholastic | 4 |
| Scholastic Productions | 2 |
| Scholastic (as editor, earlier career) | 1 |
| Scholastic Book Clubs | 1 |
| Scholastic Book Fairs | 1 |
| Scholastic Inc. | 1 |
| Scholastic Point | 1 |
| Scholastic Press | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T971571 — 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: Scholastic Corporation Context triple: [Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, publisher, Scholastic Corporation]
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A.
Harcourt Brace & World
Harcourt Brace & World was a major American publishing company known for its influential catalog of academic, literary, and educational works in the mid-20th century.
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B.
Time Warner Book Group
Time Warner Book Group was a major American publishing company encompassing various imprints and book lines formerly owned by media conglomerate Time Warner.
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C.
Houghton Mifflin
Houghton Mifflin is a major American publishing company known for its educational materials, textbooks, and notable works of fiction and non-fiction.
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D.
Grosset & Dunlap
Grosset & Dunlap is a major American publishing company best known for producing popular mass-market books, including classic children's series and notable political memoirs.
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E.
Macmillan Publishers
Macmillan Publishers is a major global publishing company known for its wide range of academic, educational, and trade books and imprints.
- 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: Scholastic Corporation Target entity description: Scholastic Corporation is a major American publishing and media company best known for producing and distributing children's books and educational materials, including the U.S. editions of the Harry Potter series.
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A.
Harcourt Brace & World
Harcourt Brace & World was a major American publishing company known for its influential catalog of academic, literary, and educational works in the mid-20th century.
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B.
Time Warner Book Group
Time Warner Book Group was a major American publishing company encompassing various imprints and book lines formerly owned by media conglomerate Time Warner.
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C.
Houghton Mifflin
Houghton Mifflin is a major American publishing company known for its educational materials, textbooks, and notable works of fiction and non-fiction.
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D.
Grosset & Dunlap
Grosset & Dunlap is a major American publishing company best known for producing popular mass-market books, including classic children's series and notable political memoirs.
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E.
Macmillan Publishers
Macmillan Publishers is a major global publishing company known for its wide range of academic, educational, and trade books and imprints.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
media company
ⓘ
public company ⓘ publishing company ⓘ |
| businessModel |
distribution
ⓘ
media production ⓘ publishing ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| distributes |
books through school book clubs
ⓘ
books through school book fairs ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
children's literacy
ⓘ
education ⓘ |
| foundedAs | The Western Pennsylvania Scholastic ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Maurice R. Robinson ⓘ |
| foundedIn | 1920 ⓘ |
| foundedInCity |
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
ⓘ
surface form:
Pittsburgh
|
| foundedInState | Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| hasSubsidiary |
Scholastic Corporation
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Scholastic Book Clubs
Scholastic Corporation self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Scholastic Book Fairs
Scholastic Corporation self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Scholastic Inc.
|
| headquartersCountry |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| headquartersLocation | New York City ⓘ |
| headquartersState | New York ⓘ |
| industry |
children's books
ⓘ
educational materials ⓘ media ⓘ publishing ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| listedOn | NASDAQ ⓘ |
| notableProduct |
Book Clubs
ⓘ
Book Fairs ⓘ Clifford the Big Red Dog books ⓘ Goosebumps ⓘ
surface form:
Goosebumps series
Scholastic News classroom magazines ⓘ The Hunger Games ⓘ
surface form:
The Hunger Games series
The Magic School Bus ⓘ
surface form:
The Magic School Bus books
U.S. editions of the Harry Potter series ⓘ |
| operatesIn |
Asia
ⓘ
Australia ⓘ New Zealand ⓘ North America ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ |
| publishes |
children's fiction
ⓘ
children's non-fiction ⓘ classroom magazines ⓘ educational textbooks ⓘ |
| stockTicker | SCHL ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
children
ⓘ
schools ⓘ teachers ⓘ |
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: Scholastic Corporation Description of subject: Scholastic Corporation is a major American publishing and media company best known for producing and distributing children's books and educational materials, including the U.S. editions of the Harry Potter series.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Scholastic Inc.
this entity surface form:
Scholastic Book Fairs
this entity surface form:
Scholastic Book Clubs
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The Hunger Games (novel)
this entity surface form:
Scholastic Press
this entity surface form:
Scholastic (as editor, earlier career)
this entity surface form:
Scholastic
this entity surface form:
Scholastic
this entity surface form:
Scholastic Productions
this entity surface form:
Scholastic Productions
this entity surface form:
Scholastic Point
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Scholastic
this entity surface form:
Scholastic