the Great Moon Hoax
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The Great Moon Hoax was an 1835 series of satirical newspaper articles that falsely claimed the discovery of life and advanced civilization on the Moon, becoming one of the most famous media hoaxes in history.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Great Moon Hoax | 2 |
| the Great Moon Hoax canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T22311170 — 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: the Great Moon Hoax Context triple: [New York Sun, notableFor, the Great Moon Hoax]
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A.
The Balloon-Hoax
"The Balloon-Hoax" is an 1844 newspaper hoax story by Edgar Allan Poe that presents a fictitious account of a transatlantic balloon voyage as if it were real news.
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B.
The Advancement of Science
The Advancement of Science is a major philosophical work by Philip Kitcher that offers a naturalistic and historically informed account of scientific progress and rationality.
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C.
The Zetetic
The Zetetic was the original title of the magazine now known as Skeptical Inquirer, an early publication devoted to critical examination of paranormal and pseudoscientific claims.
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D.
The Strange Adventures of a Phaeton
The Strange Adventures of a Phaeton is a 19th-century novel by Scottish author William Black that blends romance, travel, and social observation around a journey in a horse-drawn carriage.
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E.
Ern Malley hoax
The Ern Malley hoax was a famous 1940s Australian literary fraud in which two poets invented a fictitious modernist poet to satirize and expose what they saw as pretentiousness in contemporary poetry.
- 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: the Great Moon Hoax Target entity description: The Great Moon Hoax was an 1835 series of satirical newspaper articles that falsely claimed the discovery of life and advanced civilization on the Moon, becoming one of the most famous media hoaxes in history.
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A.
The Balloon-Hoax
"The Balloon-Hoax" is an 1844 newspaper hoax story by Edgar Allan Poe that presents a fictitious account of a transatlantic balloon voyage as if it were real news.
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B.
The Advancement of Science
The Advancement of Science is a major philosophical work by Philip Kitcher that offers a naturalistic and historically informed account of scientific progress and rationality.
-
C.
The Zetetic
The Zetetic was the original title of the magazine now known as Skeptical Inquirer, an early publication devoted to critical examination of paranormal and pseudoscientific claims.
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D.
The Strange Adventures of a Phaeton
The Strange Adventures of a Phaeton is a 19th-century novel by Scottish author William Black that blends romance, travel, and social observation around a journey in a horse-drawn carriage.
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E.
Ern Malley hoax
The Ern Malley hoax was a famous 1940s Australian literary fraud in which two poets invented a fictitious modernist poet to satirize and expose what they saw as pretentiousness in contemporary poetry.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: the Great Moon Hoax
linked to: the Great Moon Hoax