State Publishing House (Gosizdat)
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State Publishing House (Gosizdat) was the main Soviet government publishing house, responsible for issuing a wide range of ideological, political, and literary works in the early years of the USSR.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Soviet publishing houses | 1 |
| State Music Publishing House (USSR) | 1 |
| State Publishing House (Gosizdat) canonical | 1 |
| Государственное издательство | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3074297 — 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: State Publishing House (Gosizdat) Context triple: [Literature and Revolution, publisherOfFirstEdition, State Publishing House (Gosizdat)]
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A.
Moscow Patriarchate Publishing House
Moscow Patriarchate Publishing House is the official publishing arm of the Russian Orthodox Church, producing religious literature, theological works, and church-related publications.
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B.
Nicolai publishing house
Nicolai publishing house was an influential 18th-century German publishing firm known for disseminating Enlightenment literature and criticism, closely associated with bookseller and writer Friedrich Nicolai.
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C.
People's Publishing House
People's Publishing House is a major state-owned Chinese publishing house known for issuing authoritative political, ideological, and historical works, including key writings of Communist Party leaders.
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D.
Goskino
Goskino was the Soviet state film committee responsible for overseeing and producing motion pictures in the USSR, including landmark works of early Soviet cinema.
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E.
Gnome Press
Gnome Press was a mid-20th-century American small press notable for publishing early editions of influential science fiction works and authors.
- 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: State Publishing House (Gosizdat) Target entity description: State Publishing House (Gosizdat) was the main Soviet government publishing house, responsible for issuing a wide range of ideological, political, and literary works in the early years of the USSR.
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A.
Moscow Patriarchate Publishing House
Moscow Patriarchate Publishing House is the official publishing arm of the Russian Orthodox Church, producing religious literature, theological works, and church-related publications.
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B.
Nicolai publishing house
Nicolai publishing house was an influential 18th-century German publishing firm known for disseminating Enlightenment literature and criticism, closely associated with bookseller and writer Friedrich Nicolai.
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C.
People's Publishing House
People's Publishing House is a major state-owned Chinese publishing house known for issuing authoritative political, ideological, and historical works, including key writings of Communist Party leaders.
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D.
Goskino
Goskino was the Soviet state film committee responsible for overseeing and producing motion pictures in the USSR, including landmark works of early Soviet cinema.
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E.
Gnome Press
Gnome Press was a mid-20th-century American small press notable for publishing early editions of influential science fiction works and authors.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Soviet organization
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publishing house ⓘ state-owned enterprise ⓘ |
| controlledBy |
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
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Soviet state censorship apparatus ⓘ |
| country | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| distributionChannel |
Soviet libraries
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party organizations ⓘ state distribution networks ⓘ |
| focus |
dissemination of Soviet ideology
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mass political education ⓘ popularization of Marxist theory ⓘ support of Bolshevik cultural policy ⓘ |
| hasPublicationType |
Soviet literary works
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classics of Marxism–Leninism ⓘ educational textbooks ⓘ ideological works ⓘ party documents ⓘ political treatises ⓘ |
| ideology |
Marxism–Leninism
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communism ⓘ |
| industry |
book publishing
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periodical publishing ⓘ publishing ⓘ |
| languageOfPublication | Russian ⓘ |
| mainRole |
central state publishing house of the early USSR
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publisher of educational materials ⓘ publisher of ideological literature ⓘ publisher of literary works ⓘ publisher of political literature ⓘ publisher of propaganda materials ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| nativeName |
Государственное издательство
ⓘ
linked to:
State Publishing House (Gosizdat)
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| operatedIn | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Soviet government ⓘ |
| product |
books
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brochures ⓘ pamphlets ⓘ periodicals ⓘ |
| publishingPolicy | aligned with directives of the Communist Party ⓘ |
| shortName | Gosizdat ⓘ |
| significance |
centralized control over printed output in the early USSR
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key instrument of Soviet propaganda ⓘ one of the largest publishing houses in the early Soviet period ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
Soviet citizens
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Soviet intelligentsia ⓘ party members ⓘ workers and peasants ⓘ |
| timePeriod | early years of the USSR ⓘ |
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: State Publishing House (Gosizdat) Description of subject: State Publishing House (Gosizdat) was the main Soviet government publishing house, responsible for issuing a wide range of ideological, political, and literary works in the early years of the USSR.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: State Publishing House (Gosizdat)
linked to: State Publishing House (Gosizdat)
linked to: State Publishing House (Gosizdat)