Walter Scott Publishing Co.
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Walter Scott Publishing Co. was a British publishing house known for issuing notable literary works in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Walter Scott Publishing Co. canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11197131 — 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: Walter Scott Publishing Co. Context triple: [Arms and the Man, firstPublisher, Walter Scott Publishing Co.]
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A.
Archibald Constable & Co.
Archibald Constable & Co. was a prominent Scottish publishing house known for issuing influential 19th-century works, including notable exploration narratives and literary titles.
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B.
Smith, Elder & Co.
Smith, Elder & Co. was a prominent 19th-century British publishing house known for issuing major literary works and reference titles, including the Dictionary of National Biography.
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C.
Maunsel & Co.
Maunsel & Co. was an early 20th-century Irish publishing house known for issuing significant works of the Irish Literary Revival.
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D.
George Allen & Unwin
George Allen & Unwin was a prominent British publishing house known for releasing influential works in philosophy, literature, and academic scholarship, including major titles by authors such as Bertrand Russell and J.R.R. Tolkien.
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E.
George Routledge & Sons
George Routledge & Sons was a prominent 19th-century British publishing house known for producing affordable popular literature and reference works.
- 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: Walter Scott Publishing Co. Target entity description: Walter Scott Publishing Co. was a British publishing house known for issuing notable literary works in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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A.
Archibald Constable & Co.
Archibald Constable & Co. was a prominent Scottish publishing house known for issuing influential 19th-century works, including notable exploration narratives and literary titles.
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B.
Smith, Elder & Co.
Smith, Elder & Co. was a prominent 19th-century British publishing house known for issuing major literary works and reference titles, including the Dictionary of National Biography.
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C.
Maunsel & Co.
Maunsel & Co. was an early 20th-century Irish publishing house known for issuing significant works of the Irish Literary Revival.
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D.
George Allen & Unwin
George Allen & Unwin was a prominent British publishing house known for releasing influential works in philosophy, literature, and academic scholarship, including major titles by authors such as Bertrand Russell and J.R.R. Tolkien.
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E.
George Routledge & Sons
George Routledge & Sons was a prominent 19th-century British publishing house known for producing affordable popular literature and reference works.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British company
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publishing company ⓘ |
| activePeriod |
early 20th century
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late 19th century ⓘ |
| businessType | publishing house ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| industry | publishing ⓘ |
| locationCountry | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| notableFor | issuing literary works ⓘ |
| product | 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: Walter Scott Publishing Co. Description of subject: Walter Scott Publishing Co. was a British publishing house known for issuing notable literary works in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.