Nick Meglin
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Nick Meglin was a longtime editor and key creative force behind Mad magazine, known for shaping its satirical voice and humor for decades.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Nick Meglin canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5086664 — 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: Nick Meglin Context triple: [Mad magazine, notableEditor, Nick Meglin]
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A.
Michael Kube-McDowell
Michael Kube-McDowell is an American science fiction author known for his novels, short stories, and contributions to major franchises such as Star Wars.
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B.
Daniel Kraus
Daniel Kraus is an American author and screenwriter known for his dark fantasy and horror works, including collaborations with Guillermo del Toro such as the novelization of The Shape of Water and the source material for Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia.
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C.
M. J. Curtis
M. J. Curtis was an architect known for designing the Nevada State Capitol building in Carson City.
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D.
Eric Erlandson
Eric Erlandson is an American guitarist and songwriter best known as the lead guitarist and co-founder of the alternative rock band Hole.
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E.
Max Thieriot
Max Thieriot is an American actor known for his roles in films like "Catch That Kid" and "House at the End of the Street," as well as television series such as "SEAL Team" and "Fire Country," which he also co-created.
- 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: Nick Meglin Target entity description: Nick Meglin was a longtime editor and key creative force behind Mad magazine, known for shaping its satirical voice and humor for decades.
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A.
Michael Kube-McDowell
Michael Kube-McDowell is an American science fiction author known for his novels, short stories, and contributions to major franchises such as Star Wars.
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B.
Daniel Kraus
Daniel Kraus is an American author and screenwriter known for his dark fantasy and horror works, including collaborations with Guillermo del Toro such as the novelization of The Shape of Water and the source material for Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia.
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C.
M. J. Curtis
M. J. Curtis was an architect known for designing the Nevada State Capitol building in Carson City.
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D.
Eric Erlandson
Eric Erlandson is an American guitarist and songwriter best known as the lead guitarist and co-founder of the alternative rock band Hole.
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E.
Max Thieriot
Max Thieriot is an American actor known for his roles in films like "Catch That Kid" and "House at the End of the Street," as well as television series such as "SEAL Team" and "Fire Country," which he also co-created.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
humor writer
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magazine editor ⓘ person ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1935-07-30 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2018-06-02 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Art Students League of New York
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School of Visual Arts ⓘ |
| employer | Mad magazine ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cartooning
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illustration ⓘ magazine editing ⓘ satirical writing ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy writing
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humor ⓘ satire ⓘ |
| hasRole |
art director (early career)
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feature editor ⓘ gag writer ⓘ |
| influenced |
American humor magazines
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Mad magazine’s satirical voice ⓘ |
| knownFor | Mad magazine ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
helped shape the tone and style of Mad magazine
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mentored cartoonists and humor writers ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Drawing from Within
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Grumpy Old Men: The Musical – additional material ⓘ Mad About the 50s ⓘ Mad About the 60s ⓘ Mad About the 70s ⓘ Mad magazine articles ⓘ Mad magazine features ⓘ
linked to:
Mad magazine
Superfan (musical) – book and lyrics ⓘ The Art of Humorous Illustration ⓘ Tim and Scrooge (musical) – book and lyrics ⓘ |
| occupation |
cartoonist
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editor ⓘ humorist ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Brooklyn, New York City, United States of America ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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linked to:
Durham, North Carolina
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| positionHeld |
co-editor of Mad magazine
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editor of Mad magazine ⓘ |
| spouse | Linda Meglin ⓘ |
| workLocation | New York City ⓘ |
| wroteFor |
advertising
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television ⓘ theatre ⓘ |
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: Nick Meglin Description of subject: Nick Meglin was a longtime editor and key creative force behind Mad magazine, known for shaping its satirical voice and humor for decades.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.