United Feature Syndicate
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United Feature Syndicate is an American newspaper syndication company best known for distributing popular comic strips and columns, including Charles M. Schulz’s "Peanuts."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| United Feature Syndicate canonical | 6 |
| United Feature Syndicate (rights holder for Peanuts) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3052819 — 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: United Feature Syndicate Context triple: [Peanuts, syndicate, United Feature Syndicate]
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A.
Argosy Pictures
Argosy Pictures was an American film production company co-founded by filmmaker Merian C. Cooper, known for producing several notable mid-20th-century adventure and war films.
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B.
Monumental Pictures
Monumental Pictures is a British film and television production company known for producing feature films such as the 2019 adaptation of "Cats."
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C.
Zanuck/Brown Company
Zanuck/Brown Company was a prominent American film production company best known for producing blockbuster hits such as Steven Spielberg’s "Jaws."
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D.
RKO Radio Pictures
RKO Radio Pictures was a major Hollywood film studio of the 1930s and 1940s, known for producing classic movies including landmark monster, musical, and film noir films.
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E.
Mutual Film Corporation
Mutual Film Corporation was an early 20th-century American film production and distribution company known for producing silent films during the formative years of Hollywood.
- 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: United Feature Syndicate Target entity description: United Feature Syndicate is an American newspaper syndication company best known for distributing popular comic strips and columns, including Charles M. Schulz’s "Peanuts."
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A.
Argosy Pictures
Argosy Pictures was an American film production company co-founded by filmmaker Merian C. Cooper, known for producing several notable mid-20th-century adventure and war films.
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B.
Monumental Pictures
Monumental Pictures is a British film and television production company known for producing feature films such as the 2019 adaptation of "Cats."
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C.
Zanuck/Brown Company
Zanuck/Brown Company was a prominent American film production company best known for producing blockbuster hits such as Steven Spielberg’s "Jaws."
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D.
RKO Radio Pictures
RKO Radio Pictures was a major Hollywood film studio of the 1930s and 1940s, known for producing classic movies including landmark monster, musical, and film noir films.
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E.
Mutual Film Corporation
Mutual Film Corporation was an early 20th-century American film production and distribution company known for producing silent films during the formative years of Hollywood.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comic strip syndicate
ⓘ
newspaper syndication company ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Peanuts merchandising and licensing ⓘ |
| businessModel | licensing and syndication fees ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| distributedCreator |
Al Capp
ⓘ
Berkeley Breathed ⓘ Charles M. Schulz ⓘ Ernie Bushmiller ⓘ Garry Trudeau ⓘ Jim Davis ⓘ Johnny Hart ⓘ |
| distributedTo | newspapers worldwide ⓘ |
| foundedInPeriod | 20th century ⓘ |
| hasGenre |
advice columns
ⓘ
comic strips ⓘ editorial cartoons ⓘ puzzle features ⓘ |
| hasMediaType |
print
ⓘ
syndicated content ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | New York City ⓘ |
| industry |
comic strip distribution
ⓘ
newspaper syndication ⓘ |
| languageOfContent | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | distributing Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz ⓘ |
| notableRole | major American comic strip syndicate of the 20th century ⓘ |
| notableWorkDistributed |
B.C.
ⓘ
Bloom County ⓘ Dilbert ⓘ Doonesbury ⓘ For Better or For Worse ⓘ Garfield ⓘ Li'l Abner ⓘ
surface form:
Li’l Abner
Luann ⓘ Marmaduke (2010 film) ⓘ
surface form:
Marmaduke
Nancy ⓘ Peanuts comic strip ⓘ
surface form:
Peanuts
Sally Forth ⓘ The Born Loser ⓘ Ziggy ⓘ columns ⓘ |
| ownedBy | E. W. Scripps Company ⓘ |
| parentCompany | United Media ⓘ |
| serviceArea |
magazines
ⓘ
newspapers ⓘ online media ⓘ |
| typeOfOrganization | for-profit company ⓘ |
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: United Feature Syndicate Description of subject: United Feature Syndicate is an American newspaper syndication company best known for distributing popular comic strips and columns, including Charles M. Schulz’s "Peanuts."
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Peanuts
this entity surface form:
United Feature Syndicate (rights holder for Peanuts)