J. B. Lippincott & Co.
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J. B. Lippincott & Co. was a prominent American publishing house known for releasing influential literary and educational works in the 19th and 20th centuries.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| J. B. Lippincott & Co. canonical | 12 |
| J. B. Lippincott Company | 7 |
| Lippincott | 3 |
| Lippincott Williams & Wilkins | 2 |
| J. B. Lippincott | 1 |
| Lippincott publishing house | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T545294 — 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: J. B. Lippincott & Co. Context triple: [Their Eyes Were Watching God, publisher, J. B. Lippincott & Co.]
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A.
West Publishing Company
West Publishing Company is a major American legal publishing firm best known for producing comprehensive case law reporters, legal digests, and research tools used by lawyers and courts.
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B.
Charles Scribner's Sons
Charles Scribner's Sons is a historic American publishing company best known for releasing works by prominent authors such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Thomas Wolfe.
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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.
Harper & Brothers
Harper & Brothers was a prominent American publishing house, founded in the early 19th century, known for releasing influential literary and historical works.
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E.
Houghton Mifflin
Houghton Mifflin is a major American publishing company known for its educational materials, textbooks, and notable works of fiction and non-fiction.
- 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: J. B. Lippincott & Co. Target entity description: J. B. Lippincott & Co. was a prominent American publishing house known for releasing influential literary and educational works in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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A.
West Publishing Company
West Publishing Company is a major American legal publishing firm best known for producing comprehensive case law reporters, legal digests, and research tools used by lawyers and courts.
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B.
Charles Scribner's Sons
Charles Scribner's Sons is a historic American publishing company best known for releasing works by prominent authors such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Thomas Wolfe.
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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.
Harper & Brothers
Harper & Brothers was a prominent American publishing house, founded in the early 19th century, known for releasing influential literary and historical works.
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E.
Houghton Mifflin
Houghton Mifflin is a major American publishing company known for its educational materials, textbooks, and notable works of fiction and non-fiction.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
company
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publishing house ⓘ |
| acquiredBy |
Harper & Row
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Wolters Kluwer ⓘ |
| authorPublished |
Ambrose Bierce
ⓘ
Florence Nightingale (as nurse and organizer of medical care) ⓘ
surface form:
Florence Nightingale
Harper Lee ⓘ Arthur Conan Doyle ⓘ
surface form:
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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| basedIn | Philadelphia ⓘ |
| cityOfOrigin | Philadelphia ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| focusArea |
medical textbooks
ⓘ
reference books ⓘ school textbooks ⓘ |
| foundedAs | J. B. Lippincott & Co. self-link ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Joshua Ballinger Lippincott ⓘ |
| genrePublished |
children’s literature
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fiction ⓘ medical literature ⓘ non-fiction ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Pennsylvania
ⓘ
Philadelphia ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| imprint |
Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine
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surface form:
Lippincott’s Magazine of Popular Literature and Science
Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine ⓘ |
| inception | 1836 ⓘ |
| industry | publishing ⓘ |
| languageOfPublication | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
19th-century American literary publishing
ⓘ
medical and nursing textbooks ⓘ publishing To Kill a Mockingbird ⓘ |
| notablePublicationCentury |
19th century
ⓘ
20th century ⓘ |
| notableWorkPublished | To Kill a Mockingbird ⓘ |
| precededBy | Grigg, Elliott & Co. ⓘ |
| product |
books
ⓘ
magazines ⓘ medical journals ⓘ |
| regionServed |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
international ⓘ |
| specialization |
educational works
ⓘ
literary works ⓘ medical publishing ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
| successor |
J. B. Lippincott & Co.
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
|
| timePeriodOfProminence |
19th century
ⓘ
20th century ⓘ |
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: J. B. Lippincott & Co. Description of subject: J. B. Lippincott & Co. was a prominent American publishing house known for releasing influential literary and educational works in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Lippincott
this entity surface form:
J. B. Lippincott Company
this entity surface form:
J. B. Lippincott Company
this entity surface form:
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
this entity surface form:
J. B. Lippincott Company
subject surface form:
The Art Spirit
this entity surface form:
J. B. Lippincott Company
this entity surface form:
Lippincott
this entity surface form:
J. B. Lippincott Company
this entity surface form:
J. B. Lippincott Company
this entity surface form:
J. B. Lippincott
this entity surface form:
Lippincott publishing house
this entity surface form:
Lippincott
this entity surface form:
J. B. Lippincott Company
this entity surface form:
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins