Macmillan Publishers
E48100
Macmillan Publishers is a major global publishing company known for its wide range of academic, educational, and trade books and imprints.
All labels observed (22)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T375198 — 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: Macmillan Publishers Context triple: [Metropolitan Books, parentCompany, Macmillan Publishers]
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A.
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.
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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.
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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D.
Hachette Book Group
Hachette Book Group is a major U.S. trade publishing company and division of the French media conglomerate Hachette Livre, known for publishing a wide range of bestselling fiction and nonfiction titles.
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E.
Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster is a major American publishing company known for producing a wide range of bestselling fiction and nonfiction books.
- 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: Macmillan Publishers Target entity description: Macmillan Publishers is a major global publishing company known for its wide range of academic, educational, and trade books and imprints.
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A.
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.
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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.
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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D.
Hachette Book Group
Hachette Book Group is a major U.S. trade publishing company and division of the French media conglomerate Hachette Livre, known for publishing a wide range of bestselling fiction and nonfiction titles.
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E.
Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster is a major American publishing company known for producing a wide range of bestselling fiction and nonfiction books.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book publisher
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publishing company ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
Macmillan Publishers
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surface form:
Macmillan
Macmillan Publishers ⓘ
surface form:
Macmillan Group
|
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Alexander Macmillan
ⓘ
Daniel Macmillan ⓘ |
| foundedIn |
London, England
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surface form:
London
|
| genre |
academic publishing
ⓘ
educational publishing ⓘ fantasy ⓘ fiction ⓘ non-fiction ⓘ science fiction ⓘ |
| hasFocus |
academic publishing
ⓘ
educational publishing ⓘ trade publishing ⓘ |
| hasImprint |
Henry Holt and Company
ⓘ
Macmillan Publishers self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Macmillan Education
Nature Publishing Group ⓘ Palgrave Macmillan ⓘ Macmillan Publishers self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Pan Macmillan
Picador ⓘ Nature Publishing Group ⓘ
surface form:
Springer Nature imprint Macmillan
St. Martin's Press ⓘ Tor Books ⓘ |
| hasSubsidiary |
Henry Holt and Company
ⓘ
Macmillan Publishers self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Macmillan Education
Macmillan Learning ⓘ Palgrave Macmillan ⓘ Macmillan Publishers self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Pan Macmillan
Picador ⓘ St. Martin's Press ⓘ Tor Books ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
London, England
ⓘ
surface form:
London
|
| inception | 1843 ⓘ |
| industry | publishing ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Nature Publishing Group
ⓘ
surface form:
Nature (journal) via Nature Publishing Group
|
| ownedBy |
Bertelsmann
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surface form:
Holtzbrinck Publishing Group
|
| parentOrganization |
Bertelsmann
ⓘ
surface form:
Holtzbrinck Publishing Group
|
| partOf | Holtzbrinck Publishing Group ⓘ |
| product |
academic books
ⓘ
books ⓘ educational books ⓘ trade books ⓘ |
| serviceArea | worldwide ⓘ |
| website | https://www.macmillan.com/ ⓘ |
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: Macmillan Publishers Description of subject: Macmillan Publishers is a major global publishing company known for its wide range of academic, educational, and trade books and imprints.
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