Cotta
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Cotta is a German publishing house historically known for issuing influential literary and philosophical works, including those of major figures like Goethe and Schiller.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cotta canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1266434 — 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: Cotta Context triple: [Kosmos, publisher, Cotta]
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Nicanor
Nicanor was a Seleucid military commander known for leading royal forces against the Jewish rebels during the Maccabean Revolt in the 2nd century BCE.
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B.
Faustulus
Faustulus is the shepherd in Roman mythology who discovers the abandoned twins Romulus and Remus and secretly raises them.
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C.
Apulo
Apulo is a small municipality and tourist town in the Cundinamarca Department of central Colombia, known for its warm climate and recreational resorts.
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D.
Dorotheus
Dorotheus was a 6th-century Byzantine jurist who helped systematize and codify Roman law under Emperor Justinian I.
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E.
Scribonia
Scribonia was a Roman noblewoman best known as the second wife of Emperor Augustus and the mother of his only biological child, Julia the Elder.
- 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: Cotta Target entity description: Cotta is a German publishing house historically known for issuing influential literary and philosophical works, including those of major figures like Goethe and Schiller.
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A.
Nicanor
Nicanor was a Seleucid military commander known for leading royal forces against the Jewish rebels during the Maccabean Revolt in the 2nd century BCE.
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B.
Faustulus
Faustulus is the shepherd in Roman mythology who discovers the abandoned twins Romulus and Remus and secretly raises them.
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C.
Apulo
Apulo is a small municipality and tourist town in the Cundinamarca Department of central Colombia, known for its warm climate and recreational resorts.
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D.
Dorotheus
Dorotheus was a 6th-century Byzantine jurist who helped systematize and codify Roman law under Emperor Justinian I.
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E.
Scribonia
Scribonia was a Roman noblewoman best known as the second wife of Emperor Augustus and the mother of his only biological child, Julia the Elder.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
German company
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publishing house ⓘ |
| associatedWithMovement |
German classical literature
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Weimar Classicism ⓘ |
| country | Germany ⓘ |
| focus |
literature
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philosophy ⓘ |
| historicalRole | dissemination of German intellectual thought ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | important role in German literary history ⓘ |
| industry | publishing ⓘ |
| languageOfPublication | German ⓘ |
| notableAuthorPublished |
Friedrich Schiller
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ⓘ |
| notableFor |
publishing influential literary works
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publishing influential philosophical works ⓘ |
| notablePublication |
works of Goethe
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works of Schiller ⓘ |
| product |
books
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periodicals ⓘ |
| publishedGenre |
drama
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essays ⓘ philosophical treatises ⓘ poetry ⓘ |
| regionServed | German-speaking Europe ⓘ |
| reputation | prestigious literary publisher ⓘ |
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: Cotta Description of subject: Cotta is a German publishing house historically known for issuing influential literary and philosophical works, including those of major figures like Goethe and Schiller.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.