Dexter Horton & Co.
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Dexter Horton & Co. was an early Seattle banking firm that became a predecessor to what is now Wells Fargo.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dexter Horton & Co. canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T23394355 — 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: Dexter Horton & Co. Context triple: [Dexter Horton, founded, Dexter Horton & Co.]
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A.
Dexter, Lambert & Company
Dexter, Lambert & Company was a prominent 19th-century American textile manufacturing firm associated with industrialist Catholina Lambert.
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B.
Hallgarten & Company
Hallgarten & Company was a prominent New York investment banking and brokerage firm active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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C.
Edwin H. Morris & Co.
Edwin H. Morris & Co. was a prominent American music publishing company known for issuing popular songs and standards in the mid-20th century.
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D.
Rinehart & Company
Rinehart & Company was an American publishing house known for issuing notable mid-20th-century literary works, including major war novels and popular fiction.
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E.
P.R. Mallory and Company
P.R. Mallory and Company was an American manufacturing firm best known for its innovations in electrical components and batteries, and for employing Chester Carlson before he invented xerography.
- 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: Dexter Horton & Co. Target entity description: Dexter Horton & Co. was an early Seattle banking firm that became a predecessor to what is now Wells Fargo.
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A.
Dexter, Lambert & Company
Dexter, Lambert & Company was a prominent 19th-century American textile manufacturing firm associated with industrialist Catholina Lambert.
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B.
Hallgarten & Company
Hallgarten & Company was a prominent New York investment banking and brokerage firm active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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C.
Edwin H. Morris & Co.
Edwin H. Morris & Co. was a prominent American music publishing company known for issuing popular songs and standards in the mid-20th century.
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D.
Rinehart & Company
Rinehart & Company was an American publishing house known for issuing notable mid-20th-century literary works, including major war novels and popular fiction.
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E.
P.R. Mallory and Company
P.R. Mallory and Company was an American manufacturing firm best known for its innovations in electrical components and batteries, and for employing Chester Carlson before he invented xerography.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.