West Publishing Company
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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.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| West Publishing Company canonical | 21 |
| West Publishing | 12 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T125622 — 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: West Publishing Company Context triple: [Supreme Court Reporter, publisher, West Publishing Company]
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A.
Charles Scribner's Sons
Charles Scribner's Sons is a historic American publishing company best known for releasing works by prominent authors such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Thomas Wolfe.
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B.
G. P. Putnam’s Sons
G. P. Putnam’s Sons is a long-established American publishing house known for producing a wide range of fiction and nonfiction titles.
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C.
American Publishing Company
American Publishing Company was a 19th-century U.S. publishing house best known for issuing major works by authors such as Mark Twain, including classic American literature.
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D.
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Liveright Publishing Corporation is an American publishing house, now an imprint of W. W. Norton & Company, known for releasing influential works of literary fiction and nonfiction.
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E.
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.
- 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: West Publishing Company Target entity description: 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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A.
Charles Scribner's Sons
Charles Scribner's Sons is a historic American publishing company best known for releasing works by prominent authors such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Thomas Wolfe.
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B.
G. P. Putnam’s Sons
G. P. Putnam’s Sons is a long-established American publishing house known for producing a wide range of fiction and nonfiction titles.
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C.
American Publishing Company
American Publishing Company was a 19th-century U.S. publishing house best known for issuing major works by authors such as Mark Twain, including classic American literature.
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D.
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Liveright Publishing Corporation is an American publishing house, now an imprint of W. W. Norton & Company, known for releasing influential works of literary fiction and nonfiction.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
business enterprise
ⓘ
legal publishing company ⓘ |
| brand |
American Digest System
ⓘ
West Key Number System classification ⓘ
surface form:
Key Number System
National Reporter System ⓘ Westlaw ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| dataFormat |
online databases
ⓘ
print publications ⓘ |
| developed |
American Digest System
ⓘ
West Key Number System classification ⓘ
surface form:
Key Number System
|
| field |
law
ⓘ
legal research ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
United States case law
ⓘ
administrative law ⓘ statutory law ⓘ |
| formerParentCompany |
Thomson Reuters
ⓘ
surface form:
The Thomson Corporation
|
| foundedBy | John B. West ⓘ |
| foundedIn | 19th century ⓘ |
| foundedInPeriod | late 1800s ⓘ |
| hasCustomer |
courts
ⓘ
government agencies ⓘ law firms ⓘ law schools ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Eagan, Minnesota
ⓘ
Minnesota ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| industry |
information services
ⓘ
legal publishing ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
American legal digests
ⓘ
comprehensive case law reporters ⓘ legal research publications ⓘ |
| parentCompany | Thomson Reuters ⓘ |
| product |
case law reporters
ⓘ
legal digests ⓘ legal research tools ⓘ |
| publishes |
National Reporter System
ⓘ
federal case reporters ⓘ law reports ⓘ legal encyclopedias ⓘ legal treatises ⓘ practice guides ⓘ regional case reporters ⓘ state case reporters ⓘ |
| scope | nationwide United States coverage ⓘ |
| serves |
courts
ⓘ
lawyers ⓘ legal academics ⓘ |
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: West Publishing Company Description of subject: 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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