Harper
E37141
Harper is a major American publishing house known for releasing a wide range of influential fiction and nonfiction works.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Harper canonical | 46 |
| HarperFlamingo | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T242348 — 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: Harper Context triple: [Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body, publisher, Harper]
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A.
Harold
Harold is a masculine given name of Old English origin, historically borne by several notable figures including kings and modern public personalities.
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B.
Elliott
Elliott is a masculine given name of English origin, often used as both a first name and a surname.
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C.
Herbert
Herbert is a masculine given name of Germanic origin that has been borne by various notable figures, including U.S. President Herbert Hoover.
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D.
Fay
Fay is a given name most famously associated with Canadian-American actress Fay Wray, the iconic star of the 1933 film "King Kong."
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E.
Horton
Horton is the middle name of the influential British mathematician John H. Conway, renowned for his work in group theory, knot theory, and recreational mathematics.
- 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: Harper Target entity description: Harper is a major American publishing house known for releasing a wide range of influential fiction and nonfiction works.
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A.
Harold
Harold is a masculine given name of Old English origin, historically borne by several notable figures including kings and modern public personalities.
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B.
Elliott
Elliott is a masculine given name of English origin, often used as both a first name and a surname.
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C.
Herbert
Herbert is a masculine given name of Germanic origin that has been borne by various notable figures, including U.S. President Herbert Hoover.
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D.
Fay
Fay is a given name most famously associated with Canadian-American actress Fay Wray, the iconic star of the 1933 film "King Kong."
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E.
Horton
Horton is the middle name of the influential British mathematician John H. Conway, renowned for his work in group theory, knot theory, and recreational mathematics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
imprint
ⓘ
publishing house ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| distributionChannel |
bookstores
ⓘ
online retailers ⓘ |
| genrePublished |
business books
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literary essays ⓘ mystery ⓘ political commentary ⓘ romance ⓘ self-help ⓘ thriller ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | New York City ⓘ |
| imprintOf | HarperCollins ⓘ |
| industry | book publishing ⓘ |
| languageOfPublication | English ⓘ |
| market | global ⓘ |
| medium |
audio
ⓘ
digital ⓘ print ⓘ |
| notableFor | publishing influential American and international authors ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
News Corp
ⓘ
linked to:
News Corporation
|
| parentCompany | HarperCollins ⓘ |
| partOf | Big Five publishers ⓘ |
| predecessor |
Harper & Brothers
ⓘ
Harper & Row ⓘ |
| product |
audiobooks
ⓘ
books ⓘ e-books ⓘ |
| publishingFocus |
biography
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commercial fiction ⓘ current affairs ⓘ fiction ⓘ history ⓘ literary fiction ⓘ memoir ⓘ nonfiction ⓘ popular science ⓘ |
| reputation |
major American trade publisher
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publisher of award-winning books ⓘ publisher of bestselling titles ⓘ |
| targetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
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: Harper Description of subject: Harper is a major American publishing house known for releasing a wide range of influential fiction and nonfiction works.
Referenced by (47)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
novel "Telegraph Avenue" by Michael Chabon
subject linked to:
Anderson Cooper’s memoir "The Rainbow Comes and Goes"
linked to: Harper
subject linked to:
I’ll Be Gone in the Dark