Edward Moxon & Co.
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Edward Moxon & Co. was a prominent 19th-century British publishing house known for issuing major works of Victorian literature, including those of Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Edward Moxon & Co. canonical | 4 |
| Edward Moxon & Co. (as part of Tennyson’s Idylls publications) | 1 |
| Moxon and Co. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11823260 — 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: Edward Moxon & Co. Context triple: [Idylls of the King, publisher, Edward Moxon & Co.]
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A.
Moseley, Rouse & Co.
Moseley, Rouse & Co. was the original real estate and development firm that evolved into The Rouse Company, a major American real estate development enterprise.
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B.
Samuel Montagu & Co.
Samuel Montagu & Co. was a prominent British merchant bank based in London, known for its role in international finance and foreign exchange during the 19th and 20th centuries.
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C.
Henry Willis & Co.
Henry Willis & Co. was a historic insurance brokerage firm that evolved into the global insurance and risk management company later known as Willis Group Holdings.
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D.
J. W. Steere & Son
J. W. Steere & Son was a prominent American pipe organ building firm known for crafting high-quality instruments for churches and concert halls in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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E.
Andrew Handyside and Company
Andrew Handyside and Company was a prominent 19th-century British ironfounding and engineering firm known for constructing bridges, aqueducts, and other major iron structures.
- 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: Edward Moxon & Co. Target entity description: Edward Moxon & Co. was a prominent 19th-century British publishing house known for issuing major works of Victorian literature, including those of Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
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A.
Moseley, Rouse & Co.
Moseley, Rouse & Co. was the original real estate and development firm that evolved into The Rouse Company, a major American real estate development enterprise.
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B.
Samuel Montagu & Co.
Samuel Montagu & Co. was a prominent British merchant bank based in London, known for its role in international finance and foreign exchange during the 19th and 20th centuries.
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C.
Henry Willis & Co.
Henry Willis & Co. was a historic insurance brokerage firm that evolved into the global insurance and risk management company later known as Willis Group Holdings.
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D.
J. W. Steere & Son
J. W. Steere & Son was a prominent American pipe organ building firm known for crafting high-quality instruments for churches and concert halls in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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E.
Andrew Handyside and Company
Andrew Handyside and Company was a prominent 19th-century British ironfounding and engineering firm known for constructing bridges, aqueducts, and other major iron structures.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British company
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publishing house ⓘ |
| activeInCentury | 19th century ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Edward Moxon ⓘ |
| associatedWithMovement | Victorian literature ⓘ |
| basedInCity |
London
ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
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| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| era | Victorian era ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Edward Moxon ⓘ |
| genrePublished |
essays
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fiction ⓘ poetry ⓘ |
| hasAuthorPublished |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
ⓘ
Barry Cornwall ⓘ Charles Lamb ⓘ Leigh Hunt ⓘ Percy Bysshe Shelley ⓘ Robert Browning ⓘ Samuel Taylor Coleridge ⓘ William Wordsworth ⓘ |
| historicalReputation | prominent Victorian publisher ⓘ |
| industry | publishing ⓘ |
| location |
London
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linked to:
London, England
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| notableFor |
publishing Victorian literature
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publishing works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson ⓘ |
| product | books ⓘ |
| publishingLanguage | English ⓘ |
| regionServed | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| specializesIn |
literary works
ⓘ
poetic works ⓘ |
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: Edward Moxon & Co. Description of subject: Edward Moxon & Co. was a prominent 19th-century British publishing house known for issuing major works of Victorian literature, including those of Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem "Guinevere"
linked to: Edward Moxon & Co.
linked to: Edward Moxon & Co.