Grossman Publishers
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Grossman Publishers was an American publishing house known for releasing influential and controversial nonfiction works in the mid-20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Grossman Publishers canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10268649 — 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: Grossman Publishers Context triple: [Unsafe at Any Speed, publisher, Grossman Publishers]
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A.
Priboi Publishers
Priboi Publishers was a Soviet-era publishing house known for issuing political and ideological works, including key texts by Vladimir Lenin.
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B.
Pinnacle Books
Pinnacle Books was an American paperback publisher known for releasing genre fiction, including science fiction titles such as issues or collections associated with Galaxy Science Fiction.
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C.
Crown Publishers
Crown Publishers is an American book publishing imprint known for releasing prominent nonfiction and bestselling titles, including major political and current affairs works.
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D.
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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E.
Avalon Publishing Group
Avalon Publishing Group was an American independent book publisher known for its diverse imprints and catalog of fiction and nonfiction titles before being acquired by Perseus Books Group.
- 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: Grossman Publishers Target entity description: Grossman Publishers was an American publishing house known for releasing influential and controversial nonfiction works in the mid-20th century.
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A.
Priboi Publishers
Priboi Publishers was a Soviet-era publishing house known for issuing political and ideological works, including key texts by Vladimir Lenin.
-
B.
Pinnacle Books
Pinnacle Books was an American paperback publisher known for releasing genre fiction, including science fiction titles such as issues or collections associated with Galaxy Science Fiction.
-
C.
Crown Publishers
Crown Publishers is an American book publishing imprint known for releasing prominent nonfiction and bestselling titles, including major political and current affairs works.
-
D.
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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E.
Avalon Publishing Group
Avalon Publishing Group was an American independent book publisher known for its diverse imprints and catalog of fiction and nonfiction titles before being acquired by Perseus Books Group.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book publisher
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publishing house ⓘ |
| activePeriod | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| businessModel | trade publishing ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| editorialStance | independent ⓘ |
| era | post–World War II period ⓘ |
| focus |
cultural criticism
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political nonfiction ⓘ serious nonfiction ⓘ social commentary ⓘ |
| genre | nonfiction ⓘ |
| industry | publishing ⓘ |
| languageOfPublication | English ⓘ |
| locationCountry |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| market |
American readers
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international readers of English-language nonfiction ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| notableFor |
controversial nonfiction works
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influential nonfiction works ⓘ |
| product | books ⓘ |
| publicationType | nonfiction books ⓘ |
| reputation |
intellectually ambitious
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willing to publish controversial material ⓘ |
| riskProfile | high-risk titles ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
| subjectArea |
current affairs
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history ⓘ politics ⓘ social issues ⓘ |
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: Grossman Publishers Description of subject: Grossman Publishers was an American publishing house known for releasing influential and controversial nonfiction works in the mid-20th century.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.