Blackwood and Sons
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Blackwood and Sons was a prominent 19th-century Scottish publishing house known for issuing influential literary works and the periodical Blackwood's Magazine.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Blackwood and Sons canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2894152 — 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: Blackwood and Sons Context triple: [Adam Bede, firstPublisher, Blackwood and Sons]
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A.
Walton and Maberly
Walton and Maberly was a 19th-century London-based publishing firm known for producing scholarly and scientific works.
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B.
The Brothers Grimsby
The Brothers Grimsby is a 2016 action-comedy film starring Sacha Baron Cohen that parodies spy thrillers through the misadventures of a dim-witted English football hooligan and his estranged secret-agent brother.
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C.
The Code of the Mulliners
The Code of the Mulliners is a humorous short story by P. G. Wodehouse featuring one of Mr Mulliner’s comic family anecdotes set in his whimsical fictional universe.
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D.
The Horseshoe
The Horseshoe is the iconic, horseshoe-shaped football stadium at The Ohio State University, officially known as Ohio Stadium.
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E.
The Crowthers of Bankdam
The Crowthers of Bankdam is a mid-20th-century historical novel by English writer Thomas Armstrong that chronicles the rise and struggles of a Yorkshire mill-owning family across several generations.
- 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: Blackwood and Sons Target entity description: Blackwood and Sons was a prominent 19th-century Scottish publishing house known for issuing influential literary works and the periodical Blackwood's Magazine.
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A.
Walton and Maberly
Walton and Maberly was a 19th-century London-based publishing firm known for producing scholarly and scientific works.
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B.
The Brothers Grimsby
The Brothers Grimsby is a 2016 action-comedy film starring Sacha Baron Cohen that parodies spy thrillers through the misadventures of a dim-witted English football hooligan and his estranged secret-agent brother.
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C.
The Code of the Mulliners
The Code of the Mulliners is a humorous short story by P. G. Wodehouse featuring one of Mr Mulliner’s comic family anecdotes set in his whimsical fictional universe.
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D.
The Horseshoe
The Horseshoe is the iconic, horseshoe-shaped football stadium at The Ohio State University, officially known as Ohio Stadium.
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E.
The Crowthers of Bankdam
The Crowthers of Bankdam is a mid-20th-century historical novel by English writer Thomas Armstrong that chronicles the rise and struggles of a Yorkshire mill-owning family across several generations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Scottish company
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publishing house ⓘ |
| activeInCentury | 19th century ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Blackwood family ⓘ |
| country | Scotland ⓘ |
| genreFocus | literature ⓘ |
| hasPublication | Blackwood's Magazine ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | influential in 19th-century British literary culture ⓘ |
| industry | publishing ⓘ |
| knownFor |
issuing influential literary works
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publishing Blackwood's Magazine ⓘ |
| languageOfPublication | English ⓘ |
| location | Edinburgh ⓘ |
| notability | prominent 19th-century Scottish publishing house ⓘ |
| notableWork | Blackwood's Magazine ⓘ |
| product |
books
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periodicals ⓘ |
| publicationType | literary periodical ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Scotland
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
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: Blackwood and Sons Description of subject: Blackwood and Sons was a prominent 19th-century Scottish publishing house known for issuing influential literary works and the periodical Blackwood's Magazine.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.