Abacus
E361950
Abacus is a British publishing imprint known for releasing a wide range of literary and contemporary fiction, often in paperback editions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Abacus canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3474981 — 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: Abacus Context triple: [The Mountain Shadow, publisher, Abacus]
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A.
Arithmoi
Arithmoi is the Greek title of the biblical Book of Numbers, the fourth book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament.
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B.
Soma
Soma is a Vedic deity associated with the sacred ritual drink, the Moon, and divine inspiration in ancient Indian religion.
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C.
Automat
"Automat" is a 1927 oil painting by American realist artist Edward Hopper, depicting a solitary woman seated in a self-service restaurant under stark electric light, emblematic of urban isolation and modern alienation.
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D.
The Tablet
The Tablet is a Catholic newspaper serving the Diocese of Brooklyn, providing news, commentary, and information for the local Catholic community.
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E.
Al-Alaq
Al-Alaq is the 96th chapter of the Qur’an, renowned for containing the first verses revealed to the Prophet Muhammad and emphasizing reading, knowledge, and human creation.
- 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: Abacus Target entity description: Abacus is a British publishing imprint known for releasing a wide range of literary and contemporary fiction, often in paperback editions.
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A.
Arithmoi
Arithmoi is the Greek title of the biblical Book of Numbers, the fourth book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament.
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B.
Soma
Soma is a Vedic deity associated with the sacred ritual drink, the Moon, and divine inspiration in ancient Indian religion.
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C.
Automat
"Automat" is a 1927 oil painting by American realist artist Edward Hopper, depicting a solitary woman seated in a self-service restaurant under stark electric light, emblematic of urban isolation and modern alienation.
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D.
The Tablet
The Tablet is a Catholic newspaper serving the Diocese of Brooklyn, providing news, commentary, and information for the local Catholic community.
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E.
Al-Alaq
Al-Alaq is the 96th chapter of the Qur’an, renowned for containing the first verses revealed to the Prophet Muhammad and emphasizing reading, knowledge, and human creation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | publishing imprint ⓘ |
| country |
Britain
ⓘ
linked to:
Great Britain
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| distributionRegion |
United Kingdom
ⓘ
international ⓘ |
| focus |
contemporary fiction
ⓘ
literary fiction ⓘ |
| formatPublished | paperback editions ⓘ |
| genrePublished |
contemporary fiction
ⓘ
fiction ⓘ literary fiction ⓘ |
| industry | publishing ⓘ |
| languageOfPublication | English ⓘ |
| market | general readership ⓘ |
| medium | print ⓘ |
| product |
books
ⓘ
paperback books ⓘ |
| publishingCategory |
commercial publishing
ⓘ
literary publishing ⓘ |
| typeOfPublisher | trade publisher imprint ⓘ |
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: Abacus Description of subject: Abacus is a British publishing imprint known for releasing a wide range of literary and contemporary fiction, often in paperback editions.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.