William Morrow and Company
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William Morrow and Company is a long-established American publishing house known for releasing popular fiction and nonfiction titles.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| William Morrow and Company canonical | 26 |
| William Morrow | 10 |
| William Morrow (for the novel Gone, Baby, Gone) | 1 |
| William Morrow Paperbacks | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1201202 — 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: William Morrow and Company Context triple: [Perry Mason, publisher, William Morrow and Company]
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A.
Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster is a major American publishing company known for producing a wide range of bestselling fiction and nonfiction books.
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B.
Henry Holt and Company
Henry Holt and Company is a long-established American publishing house known for its wide range of literary, nonfiction, and academic titles.
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C.
Mulholland Books
Mulholland Books is a crime, mystery, and suspense-focused publishing imprint of Little, Brown and Company known for thriller and noir fiction.
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D.
Random House
Random House is a major American book publishing company known for releasing a wide range of influential fiction and nonfiction titles.
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E.
W. W. Norton & Company
W. W. Norton & Company is an American independent publishing house known for its influential nonfiction, literary works, and widely used academic texts.
- 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: William Morrow and Company Target entity description: William Morrow and Company is a long-established American publishing house known for releasing popular fiction and nonfiction titles.
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A.
Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster is a major American publishing company known for producing a wide range of bestselling fiction and nonfiction books.
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B.
Henry Holt and Company
Henry Holt and Company is a long-established American publishing house known for its wide range of literary, nonfiction, and academic titles.
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C.
Mulholland Books
Mulholland Books is a crime, mystery, and suspense-focused publishing imprint of Little, Brown and Company known for thriller and noir fiction.
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D.
Random House
Random House is a major American book publishing company known for releasing a wide range of influential fiction and nonfiction titles.
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E.
W. W. Norton & Company
W. W. Norton & Company is an American independent publishing house known for its influential nonfiction, literary works, and widely used academic texts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book publisher
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publishing company ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| distributesIn |
Australia
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North America ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
commercial fiction
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narrative nonfiction ⓘ |
| foundedBy | William Morrow ⓘ |
| genre |
fiction
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nonfiction ⓘ |
| hasImprint |
Avon Books
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Custom House ⓘ William Morrow and Company self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
William Morrow Paperbacks
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| headquartersLocation | New York City ⓘ |
| imprintOf | HarperCollins ⓘ |
| inception | 1926 ⓘ |
| industry | publishing ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity | New York ⓘ |
| locationCountry |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| mediaType |
audiobooks
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e-books ⓘ print ⓘ |
| notableFor | publishing bestselling authors ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
News Corporation
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surface form:
News Corp
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| parentCompany | HarperCollins ⓘ |
| partOf |
Big Five publishers
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surface form:
Big Five English-language publishers ecosystem
HarperCollins ⓘ
surface form:
HarperCollins Publishers LLC
|
| product | books ⓘ |
| publishes |
popular fiction
ⓘ
popular nonfiction ⓘ |
| typeOfBusiness | trade book 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: William Morrow and Company Description of subject: William Morrow and Company is a long-established American publishing house known for releasing popular fiction and nonfiction titles.
Referenced by (38)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
William Morrow
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William Morrow
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William Morrow
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William Morrow
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William Morrow
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William Morrow and Company
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this entity surface form:
William Morrow
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William Morrow
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William Morrow
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William Morrow Paperbacks
subject surface form:
Patrick Kenzie
this entity surface form:
William Morrow (for the novel Gone, Baby, Gone)
subject surface form:
I, Tina