Doubleday & McClure Company
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Doubleday & McClure Company was an American publishing firm active at the turn of the 20th century, known for issuing works by prominent authors such as Frank Norris.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Doubleday & McClure Company canonical | 3 |
| Doubleday & McClure Co. (imprint) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3277212 — 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: Doubleday & McClure Company Context triple: [Frank Norris, employer, Doubleday & McClure Company]
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A.
Frank A. Munsey Company
Frank A. Munsey Company was an American publishing firm best known for pioneering pulp magazines and mass-market fiction in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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B.
Curtis Publishing Company
Curtis Publishing Company was a major American publishing firm best known for producing influential mass-circulation magazines in the 20th century.
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C.
Pulitzer Publishing Company
Pulitzer Publishing Company was a prominent American media firm best known for owning and operating major newspapers, including the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
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D.
The Macmillan Company
The Macmillan Company was a major American publishing house known for producing influential works in literature, education, and academic scholarship from the late 19th through the 20th century.
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E.
Time Inc.
Time Inc. was a major American media company best known for publishing influential magazines such as Time, Life, Sports Illustrated, and Fortune.
- 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: Doubleday & McClure Company Target entity description: Doubleday & McClure Company was an American publishing firm active at the turn of the 20th century, known for issuing works by prominent authors such as Frank Norris.
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A.
Frank A. Munsey Company
Frank A. Munsey Company was an American publishing firm best known for pioneering pulp magazines and mass-market fiction in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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B.
Curtis Publishing Company
Curtis Publishing Company was a major American publishing firm best known for producing influential mass-circulation magazines in the 20th century.
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C.
Pulitzer Publishing Company
Pulitzer Publishing Company was a prominent American media firm best known for owning and operating major newspapers, including the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
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D.
The Macmillan Company
The Macmillan Company was a major American publishing house known for producing influential works in literature, education, and academic scholarship from the late 19th through the 20th century.
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E.
Time Inc.
Time Inc. was a major American media company best known for publishing influential magazines such as Time, Life, Sports Illustrated, and Fortune.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American company
ⓘ
publishing company ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| dissolvedInto |
Doubleday, Page & Company
ⓘ
linked to:
Doubleday
|
| foundedBy |
Frank Nelson Doubleday
ⓘ
Samuel Sidney McClure ⓘ |
| genrePublished |
fiction
ⓘ
journalism ⓘ literary naturalism ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Doubleday & McClure Co. (imprint)
ⓘ
linked to:
Doubleday & McClure Company
|
| industry |
book publishing
ⓘ
magazine publishing ⓘ |
| locationCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| namedAfter |
Frank Nelson Doubleday
ⓘ
Samuel Sidney McClure ⓘ |
| notableAuthorPublished |
Frank Norris
ⓘ
Joseph Conrad ⓘ Stephen Crane ⓘ |
| notableWorkPublished |
McTeague
ⓘ
The Octopus: A Story of California ⓘ |
| operatedInPeriod |
early 20th century
ⓘ
late 19th century ⓘ |
| product |
books
ⓘ
magazines ⓘ |
| successor |
Doubleday, Page & Company
ⓘ
linked to:
Doubleday
|
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: Doubleday & McClure Company Description of subject: Doubleday & McClure Company was an American publishing firm active at the turn of the 20th century, known for issuing works by prominent authors such as Frank Norris.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Doubleday & McClure Company