Maurice Macmillan (publisher)
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Maurice Macmillan was a British publisher and Conservative politician, notable as the son of former Prime Minister Harold Macmillan.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Maurice Macmillan (publisher) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T19186251 — 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: Maurice Macmillan (publisher) Context triple: [Harold Macmillan, father, Maurice Macmillan (publisher)]
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A.
Martin Secker
Martin Secker was a British publisher best known for his influential early 20th-century literary imprint and for championing major modernist and political writers.
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B.
George Horace Lorimer
George Horace Lorimer was an influential American editor and author best known for transforming The Saturday Evening Post into a hugely popular and nationally significant magazine in the early 20th century.
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C.
J. M. Dent
J. M. Dent was a British publisher best known for founding the Everyman's Library series of affordable classic literature.
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D.
William Heinemann
William Heinemann is a British publishing house, founded in the late 19th century, known for issuing works by prominent literary and non-fiction authors.
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E.
George Newnes
George Newnes was a prominent British publisher and editor of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, best known for founding influential magazines such as The Strand Magazine, which popularized Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories.
- 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: Maurice Macmillan (publisher) Target entity description: Maurice Macmillan was a British publisher and Conservative politician, notable as the son of former Prime Minister Harold Macmillan.
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A.
Martin Secker
Martin Secker was a British publisher best known for his influential early 20th-century literary imprint and for championing major modernist and political writers.
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B.
George Horace Lorimer
George Horace Lorimer was an influential American editor and author best known for transforming The Saturday Evening Post into a hugely popular and nationally significant magazine in the early 20th century.
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C.
J. M. Dent
J. M. Dent was a British publisher best known for founding the Everyman's Library series of affordable classic literature.
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D.
William Heinemann
William Heinemann is a British publishing house, founded in the late 19th century, known for issuing works by prominent literary and non-fiction authors.
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E.
George Newnes
George Newnes was a prominent British publisher and editor of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, best known for founding influential magazines such as The Strand Magazine, which popularized Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
1st Earl of Stockton