Prometheus Books
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Prometheus Books is an American publishing company known for its focus on humanism, skepticism, and science-oriented non-fiction.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Prometheus Books canonical | 6 |
| Prometheus Books UK | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T246281 — 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: Prometheus Books Context triple: [Paul Kurtz, founded, Prometheus Books]
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A.
Locus Publications
Locus Publications is a prominent science fiction and fantasy publishing company best known for producing Locus Magazine and organizing the annual Locus Awards.
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B.
Pantheon Books
Pantheon Books is an American publishing imprint known for releasing influential works in politics, history, and critical theory.
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C.
Pocket Books
Pocket Books is a long-running American mass-market paperback publisher known for popular fiction and non-fiction titles, operating as an imprint of Simon & Schuster.
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D.
Perseus Books Group
Perseus Books Group is an American publishing company known for its diverse portfolio of imprints and distribution services for independent publishers.
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E.
Del Rey Books
Del Rey Books is a prominent American publishing imprint best known for its science fiction and fantasy 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: Prometheus Books Target entity description: Prometheus Books is an American publishing company known for its focus on humanism, skepticism, and science-oriented non-fiction.
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A.
Locus Publications
Locus Publications is a prominent science fiction and fantasy publishing company best known for producing Locus Magazine and organizing the annual Locus Awards.
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B.
Pantheon Books
Pantheon Books is an American publishing imprint known for releasing influential works in politics, history, and critical theory.
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C.
Pocket Books
Pocket Books is a long-running American mass-market paperback publisher known for popular fiction and non-fiction titles, operating as an imprint of Simon & Schuster.
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D.
Perseus Books Group
Perseus Books Group is an American publishing company known for its diverse portfolio of imprints and distribution services for independent publishers.
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E.
Del Rey Books
Del Rey Books is a prominent American publishing imprint best known for its science fiction and fantasy titles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book publisher
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publishing company ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | Rowman & Littlefield ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| distributionArea | worldwide ⓘ |
| focus |
humanism
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non-fiction ⓘ science ⓘ skepticism ⓘ |
| hasImprint |
Humanity Books
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Prometheus Books UK ⓘ
linked to:
Prometheus Books
Pyr ⓘ |
| hasSubjectArea |
agnosticism
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atheism ⓘ critical thinking education ⓘ ethics ⓘ history of science ⓘ philosophy of science ⓘ pseudoscience ⓘ psychology ⓘ religious studies ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Amherst, New York ⓘ |
| industry | publishing ⓘ |
| languageOfPublication | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
New York (state)
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linked to:
New York
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| notableFor |
publishing science-oriented non-fiction
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publishing works on scientific skepticism ⓘ publishing works on secular humanism ⓘ |
| parentCompany |
Rowman & Littlefield
ⓘ
linked to:
Westview Press
|
| product | books ⓘ |
| publishingFormat |
e-books
ⓘ
print books ⓘ |
| publishingGenre |
critical thinking
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humanities ⓘ philosophy ⓘ popular science ⓘ religion and atheism ⓘ science ⓘ social sciences ⓘ |
| specialization |
critical examinations of pseudoscience
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critical examinations of religion ⓘ secularism ⓘ skeptical inquiry ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
academics
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general adult readers ⓘ humanists ⓘ skeptics ⓘ |
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: Prometheus Books Description of subject: Prometheus Books is an American publishing company known for its focus on humanism, skepticism, and science-oriented non-fiction.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Prometheus Books