Boing Boing
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Boing Boing is a long-running, influential blog and online magazine that covers technology, culture, science fiction, and digital rights with a quirky, countercultural tone.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Boing Boing canonical | 20 |
| Boing Boing (website) | 1 |
| Boing Boing Gadgets | 1 |
| Boing Boing TV | 1 |
| Boing Boing online magazine | 1 |
| https://boingboing.com | 1 |
| https://boingboing.net | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T230539 — 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: Boing Boing Context triple: [Cory Doctorow, employer, Boing Boing]
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A.
Adbusters
Adbusters is a Canadian anti-consumerist media foundation and magazine known for culture-jamming campaigns and sparking activist movements.
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B.
Vox
Vox is a Spanish right-wing to far-right political party known for its nationalist, socially conservative, and anti-separatist positions.
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C.
Geeks Bearing Gifts
Geeks Bearing Gifts is a book by computing pioneer Ted Nelson that reflects on the history, philosophy, and future of digital media and information technology.
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D.
Enquire Within Upon Everything
Enquire Within Upon Everything is a 19th-century British household reference book offering practical advice and information on a vast range of everyday topics.
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E.
HuffPost
HuffPost is a digital news and opinion website known for its extensive blogging platform, progressive political coverage, and aggregation of news from various sources.
- 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: Boing Boing Target entity description: Boing Boing is a long-running, influential blog and online magazine that covers technology, culture, science fiction, and digital rights with a quirky, countercultural tone.
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A.
Adbusters
Adbusters is a Canadian anti-consumerist media foundation and magazine known for culture-jamming campaigns and sparking activist movements.
-
B.
Vox
Vox is a Spanish right-wing to far-right political party known for its nationalist, socially conservative, and anti-separatist positions.
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C.
Geeks Bearing Gifts
Geeks Bearing Gifts is a book by computing pioneer Ted Nelson that reflects on the history, philosophy, and future of digital media and information technology.
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D.
Enquire Within Upon Everything
Enquire Within Upon Everything is a 19th-century British household reference book offering practical advice and information on a vast range of everyday topics.
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E.
HuffPost
HuffPost is a digital news and opinion website known for its extensive blogging platform, progressive political coverage, and aggregation of news from various sources.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
blog
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online magazine ⓘ website ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Creative Commons
ⓘ
Electronic Frontier Foundation ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Bloggie Award
ⓘ
Webby Award ⓘ |
| coEditor |
Cory Doctorow
ⓘ
David Pescovitz ⓘ Rob Beschizza ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| describedAs | directory of wonderful things ⓘ |
| editorialTone |
countercultural
ⓘ
irreverent ⓘ quirky ⓘ |
| formerUrl |
Boing Boing
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
https://boingboing.com
|
| founder |
Carla Sinclair
ⓘ
Mark Frauenfelder ⓘ |
| genre |
counterculture magazine
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culture blog ⓘ digital rights blog ⓘ science fiction blog ⓘ technology blog ⓘ |
| hasOnlineCommunity |
commenters
ⓘ
forums ⓘ |
| hasSection |
Boing Boing
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Boing Boing Gadgets
Boing Boing self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Boing Boing TV
Comics ⓘ Features ⓘ Podcasts ⓘ |
| inception | 1988 ⓘ |
| influenced |
culture blogs
ⓘ
technology blogs ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
coverage of copyright and DRM
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coverage of digital rights issues ⓘ early adoption of blogging format ⓘ influence on web culture ⓘ |
| originalFormat | print zine ⓘ |
| publisher | Happy Mutants LLC ⓘ |
| subject |
copyright
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digital rights ⓘ free culture ⓘ hacker culture ⓘ maker culture ⓘ politics ⓘ pop culture ⓘ science ⓘ science fiction ⓘ technology ⓘ |
| website |
Boing Boing
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
https://boingboing.net
|
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: Boing Boing Description of subject: Boing Boing is a long-running, influential blog and online magazine that covers technology, culture, science fiction, and digital rights with a quirky, countercultural tone.
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
https://boingboing.net
this entity surface form:
https://boingboing.com
this entity surface form:
Boing Boing Gadgets
this entity surface form:
Boing Boing TV
this entity surface form:
Boing Boing (website)
this entity surface form:
Boing Boing online magazine