A. C. McClurg & Co.
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A. C. McClurg & Co. was a prominent Chicago-based American publishing house active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for issuing influential literary and scholarly works.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| A. C. McClurg & Co. canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6929256 — 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: A. C. McClurg & Co. Context triple: [The Souls of Black Folk, publisher, A. C. McClurg & Co.]
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A.
L. C. Page & Co.
L. C. Page & Co. was an early 20th-century American publishing house known for issuing popular fiction, including classic children's literature.
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B.
Charles L. Webster and Company
Charles L. Webster and Company was a 19th-century American publishing firm founded by Mark Twain to publish his own works and those of other authors.
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C.
Frederick A. Stokes Company
Frederick A. Stokes Company was an American publishing house active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for issuing notable works of literature, poetry, and children's books.
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D.
Robert Appleton Company
Robert Appleton Company was an early 20th-century New York-based publishing house best known for producing the original multi-volume Catholic Encyclopedia.
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E.
Woodward & Lothrop
Woodward & Lothrop was a prominent Washington, D.C.–based department store chain that operated throughout the Mid-Atlantic region during much of the 19th and 20th centuries.
- 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: A. C. McClurg & Co. Target entity description: A. C. McClurg & Co. was a prominent Chicago-based American publishing house active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for issuing influential literary and scholarly works.
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A.
L. C. Page & Co.
L. C. Page & Co. was an early 20th-century American publishing house known for issuing popular fiction, including classic children's literature.
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B.
Charles L. Webster and Company
Charles L. Webster and Company was a 19th-century American publishing firm founded by Mark Twain to publish his own works and those of other authors.
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C.
Frederick A. Stokes Company
Frederick A. Stokes Company was an American publishing house active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for issuing notable works of literature, poetry, and children's books.
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D.
Robert Appleton Company
Robert Appleton Company was an early 20th-century New York-based publishing house best known for producing the original multi-volume Catholic Encyclopedia.
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E.
Woodward & Lothrop
Woodward & Lothrop was a prominent Washington, D.C.–based department store chain that operated throughout the Mid-Atlantic region during much of the 19th and 20th centuries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book publisher
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publishing company ⓘ |
| activePeriod |
early 20th century
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late 19th century ⓘ |
| basedIn | Chicago Loop ⓘ |
| businessType | privately held company ⓘ |
| city |
Chicago
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linked to:
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| era |
Gilded Age
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Progressive Era ⓘ |
| focus |
general trade books
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literary works ⓘ scholarly works ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Alexander C. McClurg ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Chicago, Illinois
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linked to:
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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| historicalSignificance |
important early 20th-century American publisher
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key Chicago literary institution ⓘ |
| industry |
bookselling
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publishing ⓘ |
| languageOfPublication | English ⓘ |
| location | Chicago ⓘ |
| market | United States book market ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Alexander C. McClurg ⓘ |
| notableFor |
contributing to the popularization of Tarzan
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first book publisher of Edgar Rice Burroughs ⓘ publishing influential literary works ⓘ publishing scholarly works ⓘ |
| operatedAs |
book retailer
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publisher ⓘ |
| predecessor | S. C. Griggs & Co. ⓘ |
| publishedAuthor | Edgar Rice Burroughs ⓘ |
| publishedWork |
Tarzan of the Apes
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The Gods of Mars ⓘ The Return of Tarzan ⓘ |
| regionServed |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| reputation |
leading Chicago publisher
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prominent Midwestern publishing house ⓘ |
| state | Illinois ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
| typeOfBusiness | wholesale bookseller ⓘ |
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: A. C. McClurg & Co. Description of subject: A. C. McClurg & Co. was a prominent Chicago-based American publishing house active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for issuing influential literary and scholarly works.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.