William Rider & Son
E904438
William Rider & Son was a British publishing house known for issuing works of occultism, mysticism, and early 20th-century fiction.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| William Rider & Son canonical | 3 |
| Rider & Co. | 1 |
| Rider & Company | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11094742 — 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: William Rider & Son Context triple: [The Lair of the White Worm, publisher, William Rider & Son]
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A.
Henry Boot & Sons
Henry Boot & Sons was a British construction and civil engineering firm, part of the Henry Boot group, known for major building and infrastructure projects in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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B.
Joseph Hepworth & Son
Joseph Hepworth & Son was a British clothing manufacturer and retailer that evolved into what is now known as the fashion and homeware company Next plc.
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C.
J.W. Foster and Sons
J.W. Foster and Sons was a pioneering British athletic footwear company founded in the late 19th century, best known as the ancestor of the modern sportswear brand Reebok.
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D.
Barry & Sons
Barry & Sons was a British civil engineering firm associated with prominent engineer Sir John Wolfe Barry, known for major infrastructure and bridge projects in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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E.
Harvey Fisk & Sons
Harvey Fisk & Sons was a prominent 19th- and early 20th-century American investment banking firm known for underwriting government and railroad securities.
- 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: William Rider & Son Target entity description: William Rider & Son was a British publishing house known for issuing works of occultism, mysticism, and early 20th-century fiction.
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A.
Henry Boot & Sons
Henry Boot & Sons was a British construction and civil engineering firm, part of the Henry Boot group, known for major building and infrastructure projects in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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B.
Joseph Hepworth & Son
Joseph Hepworth & Son was a British clothing manufacturer and retailer that evolved into what is now known as the fashion and homeware company Next plc.
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C.
J.W. Foster and Sons
J.W. Foster and Sons was a pioneering British athletic footwear company founded in the late 19th century, best known as the ancestor of the modern sportswear brand Reebok.
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D.
Barry & Sons
Barry & Sons was a British civil engineering firm associated with prominent engineer Sir John Wolfe Barry, known for major infrastructure and bridge projects in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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E.
Harvey Fisk & Sons
Harvey Fisk & Sons was a prominent 19th- and early 20th-century American investment banking firm known for underwriting government and railroad securities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
company
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publishing house ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Rider & Co.
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linked to:
Rider
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| associatedWith |
A. E. Waite
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linked to:
Arthur Edward Waite
Arthur Edward Waite ⓘ Western esotericism ⓘ tarot literature ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| genrePublished |
fiction
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mystical literature ⓘ occult literature ⓘ |
| industry | publishing ⓘ |
| languageOfPublication | English ⓘ |
| location |
London
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linked to:
London, England
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| notableFor |
publishing esoteric and New Thought works
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publishing occult and mystical texts in the early 20th century ⓘ |
| publishedWork |
The Kybalion
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The Pictorial Key to the Tarot ⓘ The Secret Doctrine ⓘ The Tarot: A Key to the Wisdom of the Ages ⓘ Theosophical and occult literature ⓘ |
| specialization |
early 20th-century fiction
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mysticism ⓘ occultism ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
early 20th century
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late 19th 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: William Rider & Son Description of subject: William Rider & Son was a British publishing house known for issuing works of occultism, mysticism, and early 20th-century fiction.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: William Rider & Son
linked to: William Rider & Son