Thomson Course Technology
E173641
Thomson Course Technology is an educational publishing imprint known for producing college-level textbooks and learning materials in computer science, information technology, and related technical fields.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Thomson Course Technology canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1531792 — 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: Thomson Course Technology Context triple: [Introduction to the Theory of Computation, publisher, Thomson Course Technology]
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A.
Addison-Wesley
Addison-Wesley is a prominent American publishing company known for its influential textbooks and professional books in science, engineering, and computer science.
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B.
Pearson
Pearson is a major British multinational publishing and education company known for its textbooks, assessments, and digital learning solutions worldwide.
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C.
W. H. Freeman and Company
W. H. Freeman and Company is an academic publishing house best known for producing influential college-level science and mathematics textbooks.
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D.
West Publishing Company
West Publishing Company is a major American legal publishing firm best known for producing comprehensive case law reporters, legal digests, and research tools used by lawyers and courts.
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E.
Chapman and Hall
Chapman and Hall was a prominent 19th-century British publishing house best known for issuing works by major Victorian authors such as Charles Dickens and Anthony Trollope.
- 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: Thomson Course Technology Target entity description: Thomson Course Technology is an educational publishing imprint known for producing college-level textbooks and learning materials in computer science, information technology, and related technical fields.
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A.
Addison-Wesley
Addison-Wesley is a prominent American publishing company known for its influential textbooks and professional books in science, engineering, and computer science.
-
B.
Pearson
Pearson is a major British multinational publishing and education company known for its textbooks, assessments, and digital learning solutions worldwide.
-
C.
W. H. Freeman and Company
W. H. Freeman and Company is an academic publishing house best known for producing influential college-level science and mathematics textbooks.
-
D.
West Publishing Company
West Publishing Company is a major American legal publishing firm best known for producing comprehensive case law reporters, legal digests, and research tools used by lawyers and courts.
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E.
Chapman and Hall
Chapman and Hall was a prominent 19th-century British publishing house best known for issuing works by major Victorian authors such as Charles Dickens and Anthony Trollope.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
educational publishing imprint
ⓘ
textbook publisher ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Course Technology ⓘ |
| brandType | academic imprint ⓘ |
| distributionRegion |
North America
ⓘ
global ⓘ |
| educationalLevel |
graduate
ⓘ
undergraduate ⓘ |
| focusArea |
computer science
ⓘ
information technology ⓘ technical education ⓘ |
| formerNameOfParent |
Cengage Learning
ⓘ
surface form:
Thomson Learning
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| imprintOf | Cengage Learning ⓘ |
| industry | educational publishing ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| market | higher education ⓘ |
| notableFor | computer and IT textbooks ⓘ |
| parentCompany |
Cengage Learning
ⓘ
Cengage Learning ⓘ
surface form:
Thomson Learning
|
| productType |
college-level textbooks
ⓘ
learning materials ⓘ |
| publishingFormat |
print textbooks
ⓘ
supplemental digital resources ⓘ |
| subjectCoverage |
information systems
ⓘ
networking ⓘ programming ⓘ software applications ⓘ web development ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
college students
ⓘ
higher education instructors ⓘ |
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: Thomson Course Technology Description of subject: Thomson Course Technology is an educational publishing imprint known for producing college-level textbooks and learning materials in computer science, information technology, and related technical fields.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.