Fields, Osgood & Co.
E207714
Fields, Osgood & Co. was a 19th-century American publishing firm that continued the prominent literary legacy of Ticknor and Fields, issuing works by leading authors of the period.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Fields, Osgood & Co. canonical | 4 |
| Fields, Osgood, & Co. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1866485 — 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: Fields, Osgood & Co. Context triple: [Ticknor and Fields, successor, Fields, Osgood & Co.]
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A.
Ticknor, Reed & Fields
Ticknor, Reed & Fields was a prominent 19th-century Boston publishing firm known for issuing major works of American literature, including those by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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B.
Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson
Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson was a prominent early 20th-century American architectural firm renowned for its Gothic Revival and collegiate designs, particularly churches and university buildings.
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C.
Miller, Orton & Mulligan
Miller, Orton & Mulligan was a 19th-century American publishing firm known for issuing significant works of abolitionist and reform literature.
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D.
Graham, Anderson, Probst & White
Graham, Anderson, Probst & White was a prominent early 20th-century American architectural firm known for designing major Beaux-Arts and classical revival landmarks, particularly in Chicago.
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E.
DeWitt, Poor & Shelton
DeWitt, Poor & Shelton was an American architectural firm best known for designing major institutional buildings such as the James Madison Memorial Building of the U.S. Library of Congress.
- 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: Fields, Osgood & Co. Target entity description: Fields, Osgood & Co. was a 19th-century American publishing firm that continued the prominent literary legacy of Ticknor and Fields, issuing works by leading authors of the period.
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A.
Ticknor, Reed & Fields
Ticknor, Reed & Fields was a prominent 19th-century Boston publishing firm known for issuing major works of American literature, including those by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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B.
Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson
Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson was a prominent early 20th-century American architectural firm renowned for its Gothic Revival and collegiate designs, particularly churches and university buildings.
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C.
Miller, Orton & Mulligan
Miller, Orton & Mulligan was a 19th-century American publishing firm known for issuing significant works of abolitionist and reform literature.
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D.
Graham, Anderson, Probst & White
Graham, Anderson, Probst & White was a prominent early 20th-century American architectural firm known for designing major Beaux-Arts and classical revival landmarks, particularly in Chicago.
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E.
DeWitt, Poor & Shelton
DeWitt, Poor & Shelton was an American architectural firm best known for designing major institutional buildings such as the James Madison Memorial Building of the U.S. Library of Congress.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book publisher
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publishing company ⓘ |
| basedIn | Boston literary scene ⓘ |
| businessModel | trade book publishing ⓘ |
| catalogIncludes |
essay collections
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novels ⓘ poetry collections ⓘ travel writing ⓘ |
| continued | literary legacy of Ticknor and Fields ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| dissolved | 1871 ⓘ |
| distributionArea |
United Kingdom
ⓘ
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| foundedBy |
James R. Osgood
ⓘ
James T. Fields ⓘ |
| genre |
essays
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literary fiction ⓘ non-fiction ⓘ poetry ⓘ |
| hasPart | literary publishing division ⓘ |
| hasPublisherImprint | Fields, Osgood & Co. ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Boston, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | major 19th-century American literary publisher ⓘ |
| inception | 1868 ⓘ |
| industry | publishing ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity | Massachusetts ⓘ |
| locatedInTimePeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| notableEmployee |
James R. Osgood
ⓘ
James T. Fields ⓘ |
| notableSeries | Household edition of popular authors ⓘ |
| notableWorkPublished |
works by Anthony Trollope
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works by Charles Dickens ⓘ works by Harriet Beecher Stowe ⓘ works by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ⓘ works by James Russell Lowell ⓘ works by John Greenleaf Whittier ⓘ works by Mark Twain ⓘ works by Nathaniel Hawthorne ⓘ works by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. ⓘ works by Ralph Waldo Emerson ⓘ works by Thomas De Quincey ⓘ |
| operatedIn | Reconstruction era United States ⓘ |
| predecessor | Ticknor and Fields ⓘ |
| product | books ⓘ |
| publishingFocus |
American literature
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British literature ⓘ |
| successor | James R. Osgood & Co. ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Fields, Osgood & Co. Description of subject: Fields, Osgood & Co. was a 19th-century American publishing firm that continued the prominent literary legacy of Ticknor and Fields, issuing works by leading authors of the period.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Fields, Osgood & Co.