Please answer the following question: Information: - Alfred Abraham Knopf, Jr. (June 17, 1918 February 14, 2009) was one of the founders of Atheneum Publishers in 1959. - Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. is a New York publishing house that was founded by Alfred A. Knopf Sr. in 1915. The publisher had a reputation for a pursuit of perfection and elegant taste. It was acquired by Random House in 1960 and is now part of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. The Knopf publishing house is associated with its borzoi colophon (shown at right), which was designed by co-founder Blanche Knopf in 1925. - Atheneum Books was a New York City publishing house established in 1959 by Alfred A. Knopf, Jr., Simon Michael Bessie and Hiram Haydn. Simon & Schuster has owned Atheneum properties since its acquisition of Macmillan in 1994 and it created Atheneum Books for Young Readers as an imprint for children's books in the 2000s. - Aladdin Paperbacks is one of several children 's - book imprints owned by Simon & Schuster . It was established by Jean E. Karl at Atheneum Books where she was the founding director of the children 's department ( 1961 ) . Atheneum merged with or was acquired by Scribner 's in 1978 , then MacMillan in 1984 , before the acquisition by Simon & Schuster in 1994 . There may have been previous uses of ' Aladdin ' as a brand name in the book industry . After reading the paragraphs above, we are interested in knowing the entity with which 'aladdin paperbacks' exhibits the relationship of 'instance of'. Find the answer from the choices below. Choices: - 1918 - city - february - june - part - publisher - publishing
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