New American Library
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New American Library is a major American paperback and mass-market book publisher known for making classic and contemporary literature widely accessible to general readers.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| New American Library canonical | 10 |
| New American Library (Penguin Group imprint) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2886142 — 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: New American Library Context triple: [Armies of the Night, publisher, New American Library]
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Perseus Books Group
Perseus Books Group is an American publishing company known for its diverse portfolio of imprints and distribution services for independent publishers.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
William Morrow and Company
William Morrow and Company is a long-established American publishing house known for releasing popular fiction and nonfiction titles.
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E.
Penguin Random House
Penguin Random House is a major global trade book publisher known for its extensive catalog of fiction and nonfiction titles across numerous imprints.
- 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: New American Library Target entity description: New American Library is a major American paperback and mass-market book publisher known for making classic and contemporary literature widely accessible to general readers.
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A.
Perseus Books Group
Perseus Books Group is an American publishing company known for its diverse portfolio of imprints and distribution services for independent publishers.
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B.
Random House
Random House is a major American book publishing company known for releasing a wide range of influential fiction and nonfiction titles.
-
C.
Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster is a major American publishing company known for producing a wide range of bestselling fiction and nonfiction books.
-
D.
William Morrow and Company
William Morrow and Company is a long-established American publishing house known for releasing popular fiction and nonfiction titles.
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E.
Penguin Random House
Penguin Random House is a major global trade book publisher known for its extensive catalog of fiction and nonfiction titles across numerous imprints.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book publisher
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paperback publisher ⓘ publishing company ⓘ |
| businessModel | mass-market publishing ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| distributionChannel |
bookstores
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mass-market retail outlets ⓘ newsstands ⓘ |
| focus |
classic literature
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contemporary literature ⓘ |
| format | paperback ⓘ |
| genrePublished |
classics
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fiction ⓘ nonfiction ⓘ |
| goal | increase accessibility of literature ⓘ |
| industry | publishing ⓘ |
| languageOfPublication | English ⓘ |
| marketPosition | major American paperback publisher ⓘ |
| medium | print ⓘ |
| notableFor | making literature widely accessible to general readers ⓘ |
| product |
mass-market paperbacks
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paperback books ⓘ |
| publishingType |
mass-market paperback publishing
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trade publishing ⓘ |
| regionServed | North America ⓘ |
| targetAudience | general readers ⓘ |
| workTypePublished |
classic novels
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contemporary novels ⓘ genre fiction ⓘ literary anthologies ⓘ |
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: New American Library Description of subject: New American Library is a major American paperback and mass-market book publisher known for making classic and contemporary literature widely accessible to general readers.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop
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publisher
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New American Library (Penguin Group imprint)
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linked to: New American Library