Contact Editions
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Contact Editions was a small early 20th-century literary press known for publishing modernist and avant-garde works, including Gertrude Stein’s "The Making of Americans."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Contact Editions canonical | 3 |
| Contact Publishing Company | 2 |
| Contact Collection of Contemporary Writers | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9797812 — 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: Contact Editions Context triple: [The Making of Americans, publisher, Contact Editions]
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A.
Contact Publishing
Contact Publishing was a Dutch publishing house best known for originally bringing Anne Frank’s diary to the public.
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Contact Press
Contact Press was a small but influential Canadian literary publishing house known for championing early works by major poets, including Leonard Cohen.
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C.
Contact
Contact is a science fiction novel by Carl Sagan that explores humanity’s first communication with an extraterrestrial intelligence and the intersection of science, faith, and politics.
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D.
Contact
Contact is a 1997 science fiction film, based on Carl Sagan’s novel, that follows a scientist’s first-contact encounter with extraterrestrial intelligence.
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E.
Contact
Contact is a large-scale immersive art installation by Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson that explores perception, light, and spatial experience.
- 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: Contact Editions Target entity description: Contact Editions was a small early 20th-century literary press known for publishing modernist and avant-garde works, including Gertrude Stein’s "The Making of Americans."
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A.
Contact Publishing
Contact Publishing was a Dutch publishing house best known for originally bringing Anne Frank’s diary to the public.
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B.
Contact Press
Contact Press was a small but influential Canadian literary publishing house known for championing early works by major poets, including Leonard Cohen.
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C.
Contact
Contact is a science fiction novel by Carl Sagan that explores humanity’s first communication with an extraterrestrial intelligence and the intersection of science, faith, and politics.
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D.
Contact
Contact is a 1997 science fiction film, based on Carl Sagan’s novel, that follows a scientist’s first-contact encounter with extraterrestrial intelligence.
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E.
Contact
Contact is a large-scale immersive art installation by Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson that explores perception, light, and spatial experience.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary press
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novel ⓘ publishing house ⓘ small press ⓘ |
| associatedMovement |
avant-garde
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modernism ⓘ |
| author | Gertrude Stein ⓘ |
| cityOfOperation | Paris ⓘ |
| countryOfOperation | France ⓘ |
| genre | experimental prose ⓘ |
| historicalRole | contributed to dissemination of modernist literature ⓘ |
| industry | book publishing ⓘ |
| languageOfPublication | English ⓘ |
| medium | print books ⓘ |
| notableAuthorPublished | Gertrude Stein ⓘ |
| notablePublication | The Making of Americans ⓘ |
| notableWorkPublishedBy | Contact Editions ⓘ |
| operationalPeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| publisher | Contact Editions ⓘ |
| publishingFocus |
avant-garde literature
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modernist literature ⓘ |
| reputation |
known for publishing innovative works
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known for supporting experimental writers ⓘ |
| scale | small ⓘ |
| workPublished | The Making of Americans ⓘ |
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: Contact Editions Description of subject: Contact Editions was a small early 20th-century literary press known for publishing modernist and avant-garde works, including Gertrude Stein’s "The Making of Americans."
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Contact Editions
linked to: Contact Editions
linked to: Contact Editions
subject linked to:
Contact Editions
subject linked to:
Contact Editions