Polity Press
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Polity Press is an academic and scholarly publishing house known for influential works in the social sciences, humanities, and political theory.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Polity Press canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11645889 — 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: Polity Press Context triple: [Facing Gaia: Eight Lectures on the New Climatic Regime, publisher, Polity Press]
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A.
University Press of America
University Press of America is an academic publishing imprint known for producing scholarly and educational books across a wide range of disciplines.
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B.
The New Press
The New Press is an independent, nonprofit book publisher known for progressive, socially engaged works that promote education, equity, and public debate.
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C.
A&C Black
A&C Black is a long-established British publishing company known for its diverse catalog of reference works, educational titles, and general non-fiction.
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D.
GNU Press
GNU Press is the publishing arm of the GNU Project that produces and distributes books and materials advocating free software principles and digital freedom.
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E.
Palgrave Macmillan
Palgrave Macmillan is an academic and professional publishing company known for its scholarly books and journals in the humanities, social sciences, and business.
- 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: Polity Press Target entity description: Polity Press is an academic and scholarly publishing house known for influential works in the social sciences, humanities, and political theory.
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A.
University Press of America
University Press of America is an academic publishing imprint known for producing scholarly and educational books across a wide range of disciplines.
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B.
The New Press
The New Press is an independent, nonprofit book publisher known for progressive, socially engaged works that promote education, equity, and public debate.
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C.
A&C Black
A&C Black is a long-established British publishing company known for its diverse catalog of reference works, educational titles, and general non-fiction.
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D.
GNU Press
GNU Press is the publishing arm of the GNU Project that produces and distributes books and materials advocating free software principles and digital freedom.
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E.
Palgrave Macmillan
Palgrave Macmillan is an academic and professional publishing company known for its scholarly books and journals in the humanities, social sciences, and business.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic publisher
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publishing house ⓘ scholarly publisher ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| distributesIn |
Europe
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United Kingdom ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| focusesOn |
humanities
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political theory ⓘ social sciences ⓘ |
| hasFormat |
e-books
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print books ⓘ |
| hasOfficeIn |
Boston
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Cambridge ⓘ Oxford ⓘ |
| industry | academic publishing ⓘ |
| knownFor |
influential works in political theory
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influential works in social theory ⓘ publishing leading scholars in the social sciences ⓘ |
| languageOfPublication | English ⓘ |
| publishes |
academic journals
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advanced research works ⓘ introductory academic texts ⓘ monographs ⓘ scholarly books ⓘ textbooks ⓘ |
| specializesIn |
anthropology
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cultural studies ⓘ gender studies ⓘ history ⓘ international relations ⓘ media studies ⓘ philosophy ⓘ politics ⓘ sociology ⓘ |
| subjectArea |
cultural theory
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media and communication studies ⓘ philosophy of social science ⓘ political science ⓘ social theory ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
academics
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researchers ⓘ students ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Polity Press Description of subject: Polity Press is an academic and scholarly publishing house known for influential works in the social sciences, humanities, and political theory.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.