Standard Magazines
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Standard Magazines was a mid-20th-century American pulp magazine publisher known for producing popular science fiction and adventure titles.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Standard Magazines canonical | 3 |
| If magazine | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8493978 — 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: Standard Magazines Context triple: [Startling Stories, publisher, Standard Magazines]
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A.
Sur magazine
Sur magazine was an influential 20th-century Argentine literary journal that became a central platform for modernist and avant-garde writers in Latin America and beyond.
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B.
The Magazine of Magazines
The Magazine of Magazines was an 18th-century British periodical that compiled and reprinted notable literary and political works for a broad reading public.
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C.
Spin magazine
Spin magazine is an American music and culture publication known for its influential coverage of alternative rock scenes, including the rise of Seattle grunge in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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D.
National Periodical Publications
National Periodical Publications was the former corporate name of DC Comics, a major American comic book publisher known for iconic superheroes like Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman.
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E.
Unknown magazine
Unknown magazine was an influential American fantasy and science fiction pulp magazine of the late 1930s and early 1940s, noted for its high literary standards and innovative, humorous, and psychologically rich stories.
- 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: Standard Magazines Target entity description: Standard Magazines was a mid-20th-century American pulp magazine publisher known for producing popular science fiction and adventure titles.
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A.
Sur magazine
Sur magazine was an influential 20th-century Argentine literary journal that became a central platform for modernist and avant-garde writers in Latin America and beyond.
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B.
The Magazine of Magazines
The Magazine of Magazines was an 18th-century British periodical that compiled and reprinted notable literary and political works for a broad reading public.
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C.
Spin magazine
Spin magazine is an American music and culture publication known for its influential coverage of alternative rock scenes, including the rise of Seattle grunge in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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D.
National Periodical Publications
National Periodical Publications was the former corporate name of DC Comics, a major American comic book publisher known for iconic superheroes like Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman.
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E.
Unknown magazine
Unknown magazine was an influential American fantasy and science fiction pulp magazine of the late 1930s and early 1940s, noted for its high literary standards and innovative, humorous, and psychologically rich stories.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
publishing company
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pulp magazine publisher ⓘ |
| associatedWith | American pulp magazine industry ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| distributionArea |
North America
NERFINISHED
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United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | Golden Age of pulp magazines NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| focus |
adventure fiction
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detective fiction ⓘ popular fiction ⓘ science fiction ⓘ sports fiction ⓘ western fiction ⓘ |
| format | pulp magazine ⓘ |
| genre |
adventure magazines
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science fiction magazines ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | 20th century ⓘ |
| imprint |
Better Publications
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Nedor Publishing NERFINISHED ⓘ Thrilling Publications NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| industry | publishing ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium | print ⓘ |
| notableFor |
adventure pulp magazines
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detective pulp magazines ⓘ science fiction pulp magazines ⓘ western pulp magazines ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Captain Future
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Masked Rider Western NERFINISHED ⓘ Popular Detective NERFINISHED ⓘ Popular Sports NERFINISHED ⓘ Startling Stories NERFINISHED ⓘ Strange Stories NERFINISHED ⓘ Thrilling Detective NERFINISHED ⓘ Thrilling Mystery NERFINISHED ⓘ Thrilling Western NERFINISHED ⓘ Thrilling Wonder Stories NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| period | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| product | pulp magazines ⓘ |
| publicationFormat |
digest-size magazines
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standard pulp-size magazines ⓘ |
| publicationType | periodicals ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
| subjectOf | studies of pulp magazine history ⓘ |
| targetAudience | mass-market readers ⓘ |
| typeOfBusiness | fiction magazine publisher ⓘ |
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: Standard Magazines Description of subject: Standard Magazines was a mid-20th-century American pulp magazine publisher known for producing popular science fiction and adventure titles.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
If magazine