Reynal & Hitchcock
E621815
Reynal & Hitchcock was an American publishing house best known for issuing the first U.S. edition of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s classic novella "The Little Prince."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Reynal & Hitchcock canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6821452 — 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: Reynal & Hitchcock Context triple: [The Little Prince, publisherOfFirstEdition, Reynal & Hitchcock]
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A.
Eggers & Higgins
Eggers & Higgins was a prominent 20th-century American architectural firm known for major public and institutional projects, including work on the Thomas Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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B.
Harrington & Richardson
Harrington & Richardson was an American firearms manufacturer known for producing a wide range of rifles, shotguns, and handguns for civilian, military, and law enforcement use throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.
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C.
Hallgarten & Company
Hallgarten & Company was a prominent New York investment banking and brokerage firm active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
Rinehart & Company
Rinehart & Company was an American publishing house known for issuing notable mid-20th-century literary works, including major war novels and popular fiction.
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E.
Holabird & Roche
Holabird & Roche was a prominent Chicago-based architectural firm known for its influential early skyscraper designs and major civic projects in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- 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: Reynal & Hitchcock Target entity description: Reynal & Hitchcock was an American publishing house best known for issuing the first U.S. edition of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s classic novella "The Little Prince."
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A.
Eggers & Higgins
Eggers & Higgins was a prominent 20th-century American architectural firm known for major public and institutional projects, including work on the Thomas Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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B.
Harrington & Richardson
Harrington & Richardson was an American firearms manufacturer known for producing a wide range of rifles, shotguns, and handguns for civilian, military, and law enforcement use throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.
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C.
Hallgarten & Company
Hallgarten & Company was a prominent New York investment banking and brokerage firm active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
Rinehart & Company
Rinehart & Company was an American publishing house known for issuing notable mid-20th-century literary works, including major war novels and popular fiction.
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E.
Holabird & Roche
Holabird & Roche was a prominent Chicago-based architectural firm known for its influential early skyscraper designs and major civic projects in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
company
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publishing house ⓘ |
| associatedWith | American publishing history ⓘ |
| basedIn | New York City ⓘ |
| businessType | privately held company ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| culturalImpact | helped popularize "The Little Prince" in the United States ⓘ |
| field |
literature
ⓘ
publishing ⓘ |
| industry | book publishing ⓘ |
| languageOfPublication | English ⓘ |
| locationCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| market | United States book market ⓘ |
| notableAuthorPublished | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ⓘ |
| notableFor | issuing the first U.S. edition of "The Little Prince" ⓘ |
| notableWorkPublished | The Little Prince ⓘ |
| operatedInCentury | 20th century ⓘ |
| publicationFormat |
books
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novellas ⓘ |
| publishedFormat | hardcover books ⓘ |
| publishedGenre |
children's literature
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literary fiction ⓘ |
| regionServed | North America ⓘ |
| roleInWork | first U.S. publisher of "The Little Prince" ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
| workLanguagePublished | English translation of "The Little Prince" ⓘ |
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: Reynal & Hitchcock Description of subject: Reynal & Hitchcock was an American publishing house best known for issuing the first U.S. edition of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s classic novella "The Little Prince."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.