Goodreads
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Goodreads is a popular social cataloging website where readers track, rate, review, and discover books and reading recommendations.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Goodreads canonical | 23 |
| Goodreads, Inc. | 5 |
| Goodreads website | 3 |
| Goodreads mobile app | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T241600 — 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: Goodreads Context triple: [Amazon, hasSubsidiary, Goodreads]
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A.
Gallery Books
Gallery Books is a publishing imprint known for releasing a wide range of commercial fiction and nonfiction titles, including bestsellers and works by popular contemporary authors.
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B.
Reading
Reading is a major town in Berkshire, England, known as a key commercial and transport hub in the Thames Valley.
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C.
Pan Books
Pan Books is a British publishing imprint known for producing popular fiction and classic titles, including major science fiction works.
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D.
Bibliotheca
Bibliotheca is an ancient Greek mythographical handbook traditionally attributed to Apollodorus that compiles and summarizes a wide range of Greek myths and heroic legends.
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E.
New York Times Notable Books
New York Times Notable Books is an annual curated list by The New York Times highlighting outstanding and influential books published that year across various genres.
- 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: Goodreads Target entity description: Goodreads is a popular social cataloging website where readers track, rate, review, and discover books and reading recommendations.
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A.
Gallery Books
Gallery Books is a publishing imprint known for releasing a wide range of commercial fiction and nonfiction titles, including bestsellers and works by popular contemporary authors.
-
B.
Reading
Reading is a major town in Berkshire, England, known as a key commercial and transport hub in the Thames Valley.
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C.
Pan Books
Pan Books is a British publishing imprint known for producing popular fiction and classic titles, including major science fiction works.
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D.
Bibliotheca
Bibliotheca is an ancient Greek mythographical handbook traditionally attributed to Apollodorus that compiles and summarizes a wide range of Greek myths and heroic legends.
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E.
New York Times Notable Books
New York Times Notable Books is an annual curated list by The New York Times highlighting outstanding and influential books published that year across various genres.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (55)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book review website
ⓘ
social cataloging website ⓘ social networking service ⓘ website ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | Amazon ⓘ |
| acquisitionAnnouncementDate | March 2013 ⓘ |
| acquisitionDate | 2013 ⓘ |
| commercial | true ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| founder |
Elizabeth Khuri Chandler
ⓘ
Otis Chandler ⓘ |
| genre | books ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
API for developers
ⓘ
Giveaways ⓘ author Q&A ⓘ author pages ⓘ book rating ⓘ book recommendations ⓘ book reviews ⓘ bookshelves ⓘ discussion forums ⓘ friends and followers ⓘ groups ⓘ lists of books ⓘ quotes database ⓘ reading challenges ⓘ reading lists ⓘ |
| hasMobileApp |
Android
ⓘ
iOS ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
San Francisco, California, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
San Francisco
|
| inception | 2006 ⓘ |
| industry |
Internet
ⓘ
online media ⓘ social networking ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| launchDate | January 2007 ⓘ |
| logoImage | Goodreads logo ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
books
ⓘ
reading ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Amazon ⓘ |
| parentOrganization |
Amazon.com, Inc.
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linked to:
Amazon
|
| registration |
optional for browsing
ⓘ
required for reviewing ⓘ |
| slogan | Meet your next favorite book. ⓘ |
| URL | https://www.goodreads.com ⓘ |
| userCan |
create virtual bookshelves
ⓘ
follow authors ⓘ join groups ⓘ participate in discussions ⓘ rate books ⓘ review books ⓘ track reading progress ⓘ |
| websiteType |
book recommendation
ⓘ
book review ⓘ social cataloging ⓘ |
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: Goodreads Description of subject: Goodreads is a popular social cataloging website where readers track, rate, review, and discover books and reading recommendations.
Referenced by (32)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Goodreads
subject linked to:
Otis Chandler
linked to: Goodreads
linked to: Goodreads
linked to: Goodreads
linked to: Goodreads
linked to: Goodreads
linked to: Goodreads
linked to: Goodreads
linked to: Goodreads