Ward, Lock & Co.
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Ward, Lock & Co. was a prominent British publishing house known for producing popular fiction, reference works, and periodicals from the 19th to the 20th century.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ward, Lock & Co. canonical | 6 |
| Ward Lock | 1 |
| Ward, Lock & Bowden | 1 |
| Ward, Lock & Co., Limited | 1 |
| Ward, Lock and Company | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5527417 — 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: Ward, Lock & Co. Context triple: [The Four Just Men, publisher, Ward, Lock & Co.]
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A.
Henry Willis & Co.
Henry Willis & Co. was a historic insurance brokerage firm that evolved into the global insurance and risk management company later known as Willis Group Holdings.
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B.
Henry Willis & Sons
Henry Willis & Sons is a renowned British firm of pipe organ builders, famous for constructing many of the United Kingdom’s most significant concert and church organs.
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C.
Lock & Co. Hatters
Lock & Co. Hatters is a historic London hat shop, founded in 1676 and renowned as one of the world’s oldest hatters serving royalty, celebrities, and discerning clients.
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D.
Garrard & Co.
Garrard & Co. is a historic British luxury jewellery and silverware firm renowned as a former Crown Jeweller to the United Kingdom’s royal family.
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E.
Faber & Gwyer
Faber & Gwyer was a British publishing firm active in the early 20th century, known for issuing notable literary works including modernist poetry and drama.
- 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: Ward, Lock & Co. Target entity description: Ward, Lock & Co. was a prominent British publishing house known for producing popular fiction, reference works, and periodicals from the 19th to the 20th century.
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A.
Henry Willis & Co.
Henry Willis & Co. was a historic insurance brokerage firm that evolved into the global insurance and risk management company later known as Willis Group Holdings.
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B.
Henry Willis & Sons
Henry Willis & Sons is a renowned British firm of pipe organ builders, famous for constructing many of the United Kingdom’s most significant concert and church organs.
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C.
Lock & Co. Hatters
Lock & Co. Hatters is a historic London hat shop, founded in 1676 and renowned as one of the world’s oldest hatters serving royalty, celebrities, and discerning clients.
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D.
Garrard & Co.
Garrard & Co. is a historic British luxury jewellery and silverware firm renowned as a former Crown Jeweller to the United Kingdom’s royal family.
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E.
Faber & Gwyer
Faber & Gwyer was a British publishing firm active in the early 20th century, known for issuing notable literary works including modernist poetry and drama.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
company
ⓘ
publishing house ⓘ |
| activePeriod |
19th century
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20th century ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dissolved | 20th century ⓘ |
| field |
book publishing
ⓘ
fiction publishing ⓘ magazine publishing ⓘ periodical publishing ⓘ reference publishing ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Ebenezer Ward
ⓘ
George Lock ⓘ |
| genrePublished |
adventure fiction
ⓘ
children's adventure stories ⓘ detective fiction ⓘ sensation fiction ⓘ |
| hasImprint |
Ward, Lock & Bowden
ⓘ
linked to:
Ward, Lock & Co.
Ward, Lock & Co., Limited ⓘ
linked to:
Ward, Lock & Co.
Ward, Lock & Tyler ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
London
ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
|
| inception | 1854 ⓘ |
| industry | publishing ⓘ |
| location |
Paternoster Row, London
ⓘ
Salisbury Square, London ⓘ Warwick Lane, London ⓘ |
| market | mass-market readership ⓘ |
| notableFor |
cheap reprints of novels
ⓘ
periodicals ⓘ popular fiction ⓘ publishing sensation fiction in the 19th century ⓘ reference works ⓘ |
| notableWorkPublished |
Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management
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linked to:
Mrs Beeton
Red Guides travel series ⓘ
linked to:
Baedeker travel guides
The Complete English Dictionary ⓘ novels by E. W. Hornung ⓘ novels by G. A. Henty ⓘ novels by Mary Elizabeth Braddon ⓘ novels by Ouida ⓘ |
| published |
children's books
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dictionaries ⓘ encyclopedias ⓘ family magazines ⓘ household manuals ⓘ magazines ⓘ novels ⓘ short story collections ⓘ travel guides ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
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: Ward, Lock & Co. Description of subject: Ward, Lock & Co. was a prominent British publishing house known for producing popular fiction, reference works, and periodicals from the 19th to the 20th century.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Ward, Lock & Co.
linked to: Ward, Lock & Co.
linked to: Ward, Lock & Co.
linked to: Ward, Lock & Co.