William Morrow
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William Morrow was an American publisher who founded the notable New York-based publishing house William Morrow and Company in the early 20th century.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William Morrow canonical | 59 |
| William Morrow (The Given Day) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8524119 — 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: William Morrow Context triple: [William Morrow and Company, foundedBy, William Morrow]
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A.
Jeremy P. Tarcher
Jeremy P. Tarcher was an American publisher and founder of the influential New Age and self-help publishing house Jeremy P. Tarcher, later incorporated into TarcherPerigee.
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B.
Thomas Y. Crowell
Thomas Y. Crowell was an American book publisher known for founding the Thomas Y. Crowell Co., a prominent 19th- and early 20th-century publishing house.
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C.
Ian Ballantine
Ian Ballantine was an influential American publisher and pioneer of mass-market paperbacks, best known for co-founding Bantam Books and later establishing Ballantine Books.
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D.
Alfred A. Knopf
Alfred A. Knopf is a prestigious American publishing house known for its high-quality literary fiction and nonfiction titles.
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E.
William Morrow and Company
William Morrow and Company is a long-established American publishing house known for releasing popular fiction and nonfiction titles.
- 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: William Morrow Target entity description: William Morrow was an American publisher who founded the notable New York-based publishing house William Morrow and Company in the early 20th century.
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A.
Jeremy P. Tarcher
Jeremy P. Tarcher was an American publisher and founder of the influential New Age and self-help publishing house Jeremy P. Tarcher, later incorporated into TarcherPerigee.
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B.
Thomas Y. Crowell
Thomas Y. Crowell was an American book publisher known for founding the Thomas Y. Crowell Co., a prominent 19th- and early 20th-century publishing house.
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C.
Ian Ballantine
Ian Ballantine was an influential American publisher and pioneer of mass-market paperbacks, best known for co-founding Bantam Books and later establishing Ballantine Books.
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D.
Alfred A. Knopf
Alfred A. Knopf is a prestigious American publishing house known for its high-quality literary fiction and nonfiction titles.
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E.
William Morrow and Company
William Morrow and Company is a long-established American publishing house known for releasing popular fiction and nonfiction titles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
business enterprise
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human ⓘ publisher ⓘ publishing house ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | book publishing ⓘ |
| founded | William Morrow and Company ⓘ |
| foundedBy | William Morrow ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | New York City ⓘ |
| inception | early 20th century ⓘ |
| industry |
book publishing
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publishing industry ⓘ |
| location | New York City ⓘ |
| notableFor |
establishing a New York-based publishing house in the early 20th century
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founding William Morrow and Company ⓘ publishing fiction and non-fiction books ⓘ |
| notableWork | William Morrow and Company ⓘ |
| occupation | publisher ⓘ |
| workLocation | New York City ⓘ |
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: William Morrow Description of subject: William Morrow was an American publisher who founded the notable New York-based publishing house William Morrow and Company in the early 20th century.
Referenced by (60)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.