Samuel Sidney McClure
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Samuel Sidney McClure was an influential American publisher and editor best known for founding McClure's Magazine, a leading muckraking periodical of the Progressive Era.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Samuel Sidney McClure canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14704919 — 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: Samuel Sidney McClure Context triple: [Doubleday & McClure Company, foundedBy, Samuel Sidney McClure]
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A.
Frank A. Munsey
Frank A. Munsey was an American newspaper and magazine publisher and financier who became a major figure in early 20th-century mass-market publishing.
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B.
Henry Jarvis Raymond
Henry Jarvis Raymond was a 19th-century American journalist and politician best known as a co-founder and early editor of The New York Times.
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C.
Joseph Medill
Joseph Medill was a prominent 19th-century American newspaper editor and publisher who co-owned and led the Chicago Tribune and served as mayor of Chicago after the Great Fire of 1871.
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D.
John Godey
John Godey was the pen name of American novelist Morton Freedgood, best known for writing the crime thriller "The Taking of Pelham One Two Three."
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E.
Henry F. Pulitzer
Henry F. Pulitzer was an art dealer and collector best known for his controversial ownership and promotion of the so‑called "Isleworth Mona Lisa," a painting he claimed was an earlier version of Leonardo da Vinci’s famous work.
- 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: Samuel Sidney McClure Target entity description: Samuel Sidney McClure was an influential American publisher and editor best known for founding McClure's Magazine, a leading muckraking periodical of the Progressive Era.
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A.
Frank A. Munsey
Frank A. Munsey was an American newspaper and magazine publisher and financier who became a major figure in early 20th-century mass-market publishing.
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B.
Henry Jarvis Raymond
Henry Jarvis Raymond was a 19th-century American journalist and politician best known as a co-founder and early editor of The New York Times.
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C.
Joseph Medill
Joseph Medill was a prominent 19th-century American newspaper editor and publisher who co-owned and led the Chicago Tribune and served as mayor of Chicago after the Great Fire of 1871.
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D.
John Godey
John Godey was the pen name of American novelist Morton Freedgood, best known for writing the crime thriller "The Taking of Pelham One Two Three."
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E.
Henry F. Pulitzer
Henry F. Pulitzer was an art dealer and collector best known for his controversial ownership and promotion of the so‑called "Isleworth Mona Lisa," a painting he claimed was an earlier version of Leonardo da Vinci’s famous work.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.