People (magazine)
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People is a popular American weekly magazine best known for its celebrity news, human-interest stories, and annual features like "Sexiest Man Alive."
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| People (magazine) canonical | 3 |
| People magazine | 3 |
| People magazine special issues | 1 |
| People.com | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T152234 — 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: People (magazine) Context triple: [Meredith Corporation, notableWork, People (magazine)]
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A.
Time magazine
Time magazine is a long-running American weekly news magazine known for its influential coverage of global events, politics, and culture.
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B.
Newsweek magazine
Newsweek magazine is a long-running American weekly news publication known for its national and international news coverage, analysis, and commentary.
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C.
Argosy magazine
Argosy magazine was a long-running American pulp and men's adventure periodical known for sensational stories and features that helped popularize mysteries like the Bermuda Triangle.
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D.
Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly is an American magazine and digital media brand that covers film, television, music, books, and pop culture news, reviews, and commentary.
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E.
Time Inc.
Time Inc. was a major American media company best known for publishing influential magazines such as Time, Life, Sports Illustrated, and Fortune.
- 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: People (magazine) Target entity description: People is a popular American weekly magazine best known for its celebrity news, human-interest stories, and annual features like "Sexiest Man Alive."
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A.
Time magazine
Time magazine is a long-running American weekly news magazine known for its influential coverage of global events, politics, and culture.
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B.
Newsweek magazine
Newsweek magazine is a long-running American weekly news publication known for its national and international news coverage, analysis, and commentary.
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C.
Argosy magazine
Argosy magazine was a long-running American pulp and men's adventure periodical known for sensational stories and features that helped popularize mysteries like the Bermuda Triangle.
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D.
Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly is an American magazine and digital media brand that covers film, television, music, books, and pop culture news, reviews, and commentary.
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E.
Time Inc.
Time Inc. was a major American media company best known for publishing influential magazines such as Time, Life, Sports Illustrated, and Fortune.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
celebrity magazine
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magazine ⓘ weekly magazine ⓘ |
| basedIn | New York City ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countryOfPublication |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| format | glossy magazine ⓘ |
| formerPublisher |
Meredith Corporation
ⓘ
Time Inc. ⓘ |
| founder |
Andrew Heiskell
ⓘ
Richard Stolley ⓘ |
| frequency | weekly ⓘ |
| genre |
celebrity news
ⓘ
human-interest stories ⓘ |
| hasAnnualList |
Best & Worst Dressed
ⓘ
Sexiest Man Alive ⓘ World’s Most Beautiful issue ⓘ
surface form:
World’s Most Beautiful
|
| hasCategory |
American weekly magazines
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Celebrity magazines ⓘ Magazines established in 1974 ⓘ Magazines published in New York City ⓘ |
| hasOnlineEdition |
People (magazine)
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
People.com
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| inception | 1974 ⓘ |
| ISSN | 0093-7673 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mediaType |
online
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print ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
Best & Worst Dressed
ⓘ
Most Intriguing People of the Year ⓘ Sexiest Man Alive ⓘ World’s Most Beautiful ⓘ |
| originalPublisher | Time Inc. ⓘ |
| ownedBy | IAC ⓘ |
| parentCompany | Dotdash Meredith ⓘ |
| publisher | Dotdash Meredith ⓘ |
| publishingCity | New York City ⓘ |
| publishingLanguage | English ⓘ |
| subjectFocus |
celebrities
ⓘ
entertainment industry ⓘ popular culture ⓘ |
| targetAudience | general adult audience ⓘ |
| topic |
celebrity lifestyles
ⓘ
entertainment news ⓘ human-interest profiles ⓘ |
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: People (magazine) Description of subject: People is a popular American weekly magazine best known for its celebrity news, human-interest stories, and annual features like "Sexiest Man Alive."
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
People magazine
this entity surface form:
People magazine
subject surface form:
People
this entity surface form:
People.com
this entity surface form:
People magazine
this entity surface form:
People magazine special issues