John Wiley & Sons
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John Wiley & Sons is a global publishing company known for its academic, professional, and educational books, journals, and digital content.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| John Wiley & Sons canonical | 18 |
| Wiley | 12 |
| Butterworth–Heinemann | 1 |
| Wiley (publishing company) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10652248 — 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: John Wiley & Sons Context triple: [Jossey-Bass, parentOrganization, John Wiley & Sons]
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A.
Wiley
Wiley is a masculine given name, often associated with notable American figures such as aviator Wiley Post.
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B.
Wiley
Wiley is a small unincorporated rural community located in Prowers County in southeastern Colorado.
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C.
Jossey-Bass
Jossey-Bass is an American publishing imprint known for its books on business, leadership, education, and nonprofit management.
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D.
McGraw-Hill
McGraw-Hill is a major American educational publishing company known for producing textbooks and academic resources across a wide range of disciplines.
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E.
West Publishing Company
West Publishing Company is a major American legal publishing firm best known for producing comprehensive case law reporters, legal digests, and research tools used by lawyers and courts.
- 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: John Wiley & Sons Target entity description: John Wiley & Sons is a global publishing company known for its academic, professional, and educational books, journals, and digital content.
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A.
Wiley
Wiley is a small unincorporated rural community located in Prowers County in southeastern Colorado.
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B.
Wiley
Wiley is a masculine given name, often associated with notable American figures such as aviator Wiley Post.
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C.
Jossey-Bass
Jossey-Bass is an American publishing imprint known for its books on business, leadership, education, and nonprofit management.
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D.
McGraw-Hill
McGraw-Hill is a major American educational publishing company known for producing textbooks and academic resources across a wide range of disciplines.
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E.
West Publishing Company
West Publishing Company is a major American legal publishing firm best known for producing comprehensive case law reporters, legal digests, and research tools used by lawyers and courts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic publisher
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educational publisher ⓘ professional publisher ⓘ public company ⓘ publishing company ⓘ |
| areaServed | worldwide ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| focus |
business
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education ⓘ humanities ⓘ medicine ⓘ science ⓘ social sciences ⓘ technology ⓘ |
| formerHeadquartersLocation | New York City ⓘ |
| foundedAs | Charles Wiley & Co. ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Charles Wiley ⓘ |
| hasDivision |
Wiley Online Library
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Wiley-Blackwell ⓘ |
| hasOnlineService | Wiley Online Library ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Hoboken, New Jersey
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linked to:
Hoboken
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| inception | 1807 ⓘ |
| industry |
academic publishing
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educational publishing ⓘ professional publishing ⓘ publishing ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| legalForm | corporation ⓘ |
| notableImprint |
Jossey-Bass
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Synergy Publishers (Wiley-Blackwell) ⓘ
linked to:
Wiley-Blackwell
Wrox Press ⓘ |
| notableSeries | For Dummies ⓘ |
| offers |
digital textbooks
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open access publishing options ⓘ peer-reviewed journals ⓘ professional development resources ⓘ |
| product |
academic books
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digital content ⓘ educational books ⓘ medical journals ⓘ online learning platforms ⓘ professional books ⓘ reference works ⓘ scientific journals ⓘ technical journals ⓘ textbooks ⓘ |
| stockExchange | New York Stock Exchange ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol | WLY ⓘ |
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: John Wiley & Sons Description of subject: John Wiley & Sons is a global publishing company known for its academic, professional, and educational books, journals, and digital content.
Referenced by (32)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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