Bobbs-Merrill
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Bobbs-Merrill was an American publishing company known for producing a wide range of literary works, including fiction, educational texts, and reference books in the late 19th and 20th centuries.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bobbs-Merrill canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10264868 — 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: Bobbs-Merrill Context triple: [Black Magic, publisher, Bobbs-Merrill]
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A.
Wheeler-Rayburn Act
The Wheeler-Rayburn Act is a New Deal-era U.S. federal law that restructured and regulated electric utility holding companies to curb monopolistic practices and protect consumers and investors.
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B.
Wheeler–Howard Act
The Wheeler–Howard Act, formally known as the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934, is a U.S. federal law that ended the allotment of tribal lands and aimed to restore tribal self-government and communal landholding for Native American tribes.
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C.
Vinson-Trammell Act
The Vinson-Trammell Act was a 1934 U.S. law that authorized a major expansion and modernization of the Navy’s fleet within treaty limits, laying groundwork for American naval strength before World War II.
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D.
Dingley Act
The Dingley Act was an 1897 U.S. tariff law that sharply raised import duties to protect domestic industries, succeeding and strengthening the earlier McKinley Tariff.
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E.
Hepburn Act
The Hepburn Act was a 1906 U.S. federal law that significantly strengthened the Interstate Commerce Commission’s power to regulate railroad rates and practices as part of Theodore Roosevelt’s Progressive Era reforms.
- 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: Bobbs-Merrill Target entity description: Bobbs-Merrill was an American publishing company known for producing a wide range of literary works, including fiction, educational texts, and reference books in the late 19th and 20th centuries.
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A.
Wheeler-Rayburn Act
The Wheeler-Rayburn Act is a New Deal-era U.S. federal law that restructured and regulated electric utility holding companies to curb monopolistic practices and protect consumers and investors.
-
B.
Wheeler–Howard Act
The Wheeler–Howard Act, formally known as the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934, is a U.S. federal law that ended the allotment of tribal lands and aimed to restore tribal self-government and communal landholding for Native American tribes.
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C.
Vinson-Trammell Act
The Vinson-Trammell Act was a 1934 U.S. law that authorized a major expansion and modernization of the Navy’s fleet within treaty limits, laying groundwork for American naval strength before World War II.
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D.
Dingley Act
The Dingley Act was an 1897 U.S. tariff law that sharply raised import duties to protect domestic industries, succeeding and strengthening the earlier McKinley Tariff.
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E.
Hepburn Act
The Hepburn Act was a 1906 U.S. federal law that significantly strengthened the Interstate Commerce Commission’s power to regulate railroad rates and practices as part of Theodore Roosevelt’s Progressive Era reforms.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American company
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publishing company ⓘ |
| activePeriod |
20th century
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late 19th century ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Edith Wharton
ⓘ
Henry Adams ⓘ L. Frank Baum ⓘ Lew Wallace ⓘ William Dean Howells ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| focus | American authors ⓘ |
| genrePublished |
biography
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children's literature ⓘ history ⓘ literary fiction ⓘ religious fiction ⓘ textbooks ⓘ |
| industry | publishing ⓘ |
| knownFor |
publishing educational materials
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publishing literary fiction ⓘ publishing reference works ⓘ |
| languageOfPublication | English ⓘ |
| legalCase | Bobbs-Merrill Co. v. Straus ⓘ |
| legalCaseSubject | first-sale doctrine in copyright law ⓘ |
| location |
Indianapolis
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New York City ⓘ |
| notableFor |
influencing U.S. copyright law through litigation
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publishing classic American novels ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
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linked to:
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (novel)
Ethan Frome ⓘ The Education of Henry Adams ⓘ The House of Mirth ⓘ
linked to:
House of Mirth
The Rise of Silas Lapham ⓘ The Wizard of Oz series ⓘ
linked to:
Oz book series
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz ⓘ |
| predecessor | Bowen-Merrill Company ⓘ |
| product |
books
ⓘ
educational texts ⓘ fiction books ⓘ reference books ⓘ |
| 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: Bobbs-Merrill Description of subject: Bobbs-Merrill was an American publishing company known for producing a wide range of literary works, including fiction, educational texts, and reference books in the late 19th and 20th centuries.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.