Times Books
E1321
Times Books is a publishing imprint known for producing nonfiction works, particularly in the fields of history, politics, and current affairs.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Times Books canonical | 15 |
| Travellers’ Tales | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T19262 — 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: Times Books Context triple: [In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam, publisher, Times Books]
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A.
Time Inc.
Time Inc. was a major American media company best known for publishing influential magazines such as Time, Life, Sports Illustrated, and Fortune.
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B.
Mens et Manus
Mens et Manus is the Latin motto of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, expressing the union of mind and hand in the pursuit of knowledge and practical application.
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C.
Literary Machines
Literary Machines is a seminal book by Theodor Nelson that outlines his visionary concepts for hypertext, non-linear writing, and the structure of digital information systems.
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D.
Tozzer Library
Tozzer Library is Harvard University's primary research library for anthropology and archaeology, housing extensive collections on human cultures, languages, and material history.
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E.
Powell’s City of Books
Powell’s City of Books is a famed independent bookstore in Portland, Oregon, renowned as one of the world’s largest new and used bookstores, occupying an entire city block.
- 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: Times Books Target entity description: Times Books is a publishing imprint known for producing nonfiction works, particularly in the fields of history, politics, and current affairs.
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A.
Time Inc.
Time Inc. was a major American media company best known for publishing influential magazines such as Time, Life, Sports Illustrated, and Fortune.
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B.
Mens et Manus
Mens et Manus is the Latin motto of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, expressing the union of mind and hand in the pursuit of knowledge and practical application.
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C.
Literary Machines
Literary Machines is a seminal book by Theodor Nelson that outlines his visionary concepts for hypertext, non-linear writing, and the structure of digital information systems.
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D.
Tozzer Library
Tozzer Library is Harvard University's primary research library for anthropology and archaeology, housing extensive collections on human cultures, languages, and material history.
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E.
Powell’s City of Books
Powell’s City of Books is a famed independent bookstore in Portland, Oregon, renowned as one of the world’s largest new and used bookstores, occupying an entire city block.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book publisher
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publishing imprint ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| genre | nonfiction ⓘ |
| hasReputationFor |
authoritative analysis
ⓘ
serious nonfiction ⓘ |
| industry | publishing ⓘ |
| languageOfPublication | English ⓘ |
| mediaType |
e-books
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print books ⓘ |
| notableFor |
current affairs books
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history books ⓘ political books ⓘ |
| productType | nonfiction books ⓘ |
| publishingFocus |
biography
ⓘ
current affairs ⓘ history ⓘ journalism ⓘ politics ⓘ public policy ⓘ |
| subjectArea |
American politics
ⓘ
current events ⓘ international relations ⓘ modern history ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
academics
ⓘ
general readers ⓘ policy professionals ⓘ |
| workTypePublished |
historical narrative
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investigative reporting ⓘ policy analysis ⓘ |
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: Times Books Description of subject: Times Books is a publishing imprint known for producing nonfiction works, particularly in the fields of history, politics, and current affairs.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Times Books