H.C. Carey & I. Lea
E421126
H.C. Carey & I. Lea was a prominent early 19th-century American publishing firm based in Philadelphia, known for issuing influential literary and historical works.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| H.C. Carey & I. Lea canonical | 1 |
| Mathew Carey & Son | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4220332 — 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: H.C. Carey & I. Lea Context triple: [The Last of the Mohicans, publisher, H.C. Carey & I. Lea]
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A.
J. & J. Harper
J. & J. Harper was the early 19th-century New York publishing firm founded by the Harper brothers that later grew into the major American publishing house known as Harper & Brothers.
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B.
Hermon Lloyd & W. B. Morgan
Hermon Lloyd & W. B. Morgan was an American architectural firm known for designing major mid-20th-century projects, including prominent collegiate and civic buildings.
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C.
L. C. Bates
L. C. Bates was an African American journalist and civil rights activist who co-founded and co-published the Arkansas State Press newspaper with his wife, Daisy Bates.
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D.
H. C. Stevens
H. C. Stevens is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a significant bearer of the surname Stevens, though specific widely known biographical details are not clearly established.
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E.
George Lea
George Lea was a British Army officer and special forces commander best known for leading operations during the Borneo Confrontation in the 1960s.
- 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: H.C. Carey & I. Lea Target entity description: H.C. Carey & I. Lea was a prominent early 19th-century American publishing firm based in Philadelphia, known for issuing influential literary and historical works.
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A.
J. & J. Harper
J. & J. Harper was the early 19th-century New York publishing firm founded by the Harper brothers that later grew into the major American publishing house known as Harper & Brothers.
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B.
Hermon Lloyd & W. B. Morgan
Hermon Lloyd & W. B. Morgan was an American architectural firm known for designing major mid-20th-century projects, including prominent collegiate and civic buildings.
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C.
L. C. Bates
L. C. Bates was an African American journalist and civil rights activist who co-founded and co-published the Arkansas State Press newspaper with his wife, Daisy Bates.
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D.
H. C. Stevens
H. C. Stevens is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a significant bearer of the surname Stevens, though specific widely known biographical details are not clearly established.
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E.
George Lea
George Lea was a British Army officer and special forces commander best known for leading operations during the Borneo Confrontation in the 1960s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (23)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book publisher
ⓘ
publishing firm ⓘ |
| activeInCentury | 19th century ⓘ |
| businessType | privately held company ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| era | early 19th century ⓘ |
| hasPublisherRole |
historical publisher
ⓘ
literary publisher ⓘ |
| industry | publishing ⓘ |
| languageOfPublication | English ⓘ |
| locatedInTimePeriod |
antebellum United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Antebellum period
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| location | Philadelphia ⓘ |
| notableFor |
publishing influential historical works
ⓘ
publishing influential literary works ⓘ |
| operatedInCityKnownFor | Philadelphia publishing industry ⓘ |
| partOfIndustry | American book trade ⓘ |
| product |
books
ⓘ
historical works ⓘ literary works ⓘ |
| regionServed |
North America
ⓘ
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| state | Pennsylvania ⓘ |
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: H.C. Carey & I. Lea Description of subject: H.C. Carey & I. Lea was a prominent early 19th-century American publishing firm based in Philadelphia, known for issuing influential literary and historical works.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: H.C. Carey & I. Lea