Appleton-Century
E161292
Appleton-Century was an American publishing company known for producing influential academic and scientific works in the early to mid-20th century.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Appleton-Century canonical | 2 |
| Appleton-Century-Crofts | 2 |
| D. Appleton-Century Company | 2 |
| D. Appleton & Company | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T975765 — 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: Appleton-Century Context triple: [The Behavior of Organisms, publisher, Appleton-Century]
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A.
Harcourt Brace & World
Harcourt Brace & World was a major American publishing company known for its influential catalog of academic, literary, and educational works in the mid-20th century.
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B.
Doubleday
Doubleday is a major American publishing company known for releasing a wide range of influential fiction and nonfiction books.
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C.
Harper & Row
Harper & Row was a major American publishing house known for producing influential works in literature, education, and academic scholarship.
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D.
Random House
Random House is a major American book publishing company known for releasing a wide range of influential fiction and nonfiction titles.
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E.
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.
- 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: Appleton-Century Target entity description: Appleton-Century was an American publishing company known for producing influential academic and scientific works in the early to mid-20th century.
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A.
Harcourt Brace & World
Harcourt Brace & World was a major American publishing company known for its influential catalog of academic, literary, and educational works in the mid-20th century.
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B.
Doubleday
Doubleday is a major American publishing company known for releasing a wide range of influential fiction and nonfiction books.
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C.
Harper & Row
Harper & Row was a major American publishing house known for producing influential works in literature, education, and academic scholarship.
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D.
Random House
Random House is a major American book publishing company known for releasing a wide range of influential fiction and nonfiction titles.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American company
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publishing company ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| focus |
academic works
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scientific works ⓘ |
| industry | publishing ⓘ |
| notablePeriod |
early 20th century
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mid-20th century ⓘ |
| product | books ⓘ |
| reputation |
influential academic publisher
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influential scientific publisher ⓘ |
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: Appleton-Century Description of subject: Appleton-Century was an American publishing company known for producing influential academic and scientific works in the early to mid-20th century.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Appleton-Century
linked to: Appleton-Century
linked to: Appleton-Century
linked to: Appleton-Century
linked to: Appleton-Century
subject linked to:
Knock on Any Door (novel)