Sherman, French & Company
E942054
Sherman, French & Company was an early 20th-century American publishing house known for issuing works such as James Weldon Johnson’s "The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sherman, French & Company canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11712965 — 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: Sherman, French & Company Context triple: [The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, publisher, Sherman, French & Company]
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A.
Edwin H. Morris & Co.
Edwin H. Morris & Co. was a prominent American music publishing company known for issuing popular songs and standards in the mid-20th century.
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B.
Phillips, Sampson and Company
Phillips, Sampson and Company was a 19th-century American publishing firm known for issuing notable literary works, including influential antislavery literature.
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C.
Carol & Company
Carol & Company is an American sketch-comedy television series created and headlined by comedian and actress Carol Burnett.
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D.
Rinehart & Company
Rinehart & Company was an American publishing house known for issuing notable mid-20th-century literary works, including major war novels and popular fiction.
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E.
Walker & Company
Walker & Company is an American publishing house known for producing a wide range of fiction and non-fiction titles for general and young adult audiences.
- 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: Sherman, French & Company Target entity description: Sherman, French & Company was an early 20th-century American publishing house known for issuing works such as James Weldon Johnson’s "The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man."
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A.
Edwin H. Morris & Co.
Edwin H. Morris & Co. was a prominent American music publishing company known for issuing popular songs and standards in the mid-20th century.
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B.
Phillips, Sampson and Company
Phillips, Sampson and Company was a 19th-century American publishing firm known for issuing notable literary works, including influential antislavery literature.
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C.
Carol & Company
Carol & Company is an American sketch-comedy television series created and headlined by comedian and actress Carol Burnett.
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D.
Rinehart & Company
Rinehart & Company was an American publishing house known for issuing notable mid-20th-century literary works, including major war novels and popular fiction.
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E.
Walker & Company
Walker & Company is an American publishing house known for producing a wide range of fiction and non-fiction titles for general and young adult audiences.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
company
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publishing house ⓘ |
| activePeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| industry | publishing ⓘ |
| languageOfPublication | English ⓘ |
| locationCountry |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| notableFor | publishing early 20th-century American literature ⓘ |
| publishedAuthor | James Weldon Johnson ⓘ |
| publishedWork | The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man ⓘ |
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: Sherman, French & Company Description of subject: Sherman, French & Company was an early 20th-century American publishing house known for issuing works such as James Weldon Johnson’s "The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.