David McKay
E528731
David McKay was an American publishing house and bookseller known for issuing works of notable authors, including Walt Whitman.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David McKay canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5585620 — 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: David McKay Context triple: [Specimen Days, publisher, David McKay]
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A.
Alister McIntyre
Alister McIntyre was a prominent Grenadian economist and regional leader who played a key role in advancing Caribbean economic integration and development.
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B.
Charles Crichton
Charles Crichton was a British film director and editor best known for his work on classic Ealing comedies and the hit crime-comedy film "A Fish Called Wanda."
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C.
Allan Menzies
Allan Menzies was a Scottish theologian and professor known for his contributions to biblical scholarship and translations in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
Arthur Howey Ross
Arthur Howey "Art" Ross was a prominent early 20th-century Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and executive best known for his influential role in shaping the modern NHL and for the Art Ross Trophy named in his honor.
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E.
Norman Z. McLeod
Norman Z. McLeod was an American film director best known for his work on classic Hollywood comedies in the 1930s and 1940s, including films with the Marx Brothers and W.C. Fields.
- 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: David McKay Target entity description: David McKay was an American publishing house and bookseller known for issuing works of notable authors, including Walt Whitman.
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A.
Alister McIntyre
Alister McIntyre was a prominent Grenadian economist and regional leader who played a key role in advancing Caribbean economic integration and development.
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B.
Charles Crichton
Charles Crichton was a British film director and editor best known for his work on classic Ealing comedies and the hit crime-comedy film "A Fish Called Wanda."
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C.
Allan Menzies
Allan Menzies was a Scottish theologian and professor known for his contributions to biblical scholarship and translations in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
Arthur Howey Ross
Arthur Howey "Art" Ross was a prominent early 20th-century Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and executive best known for his influential role in shaping the modern NHL and for the Art Ross Trophy named in his honor.
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E.
Norman Z. McLeod
Norman Z. McLeod was an American film director best known for his work on classic Hollywood comedies in the 1930s and 1940s, including films with the Marx Brothers and W.C. Fields.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bookseller
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publishing company ⓘ |
| businessType |
American bookseller
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American publishing house ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| industry |
bookselling
ⓘ
publishing ⓘ |
| knownFor | issuing works of notable authors ⓘ |
| notableWorkPublished | works of Walt Whitman ⓘ |
| productOrService | books ⓘ |
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: David McKay Description of subject: David McKay was an American publishing house and bookseller known for issuing works of notable authors, including Walt Whitman.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.