Stern
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Stern is a prominent German weekly news magazine known for its in-depth reporting, photojournalism, and coverage of politics, society, and culture.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Stern canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9248462 — 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: Stern Context triple: [Niklas Frank, employer, Stern]
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A.
Stern
Stern is a surname most prominently associated with David Stern, the influential former commissioner of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
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B.
Stern
Stern is a darkly comic novel by Bruce Jay Friedman that follows the anxieties and misadventures of a neurotic Jewish man grappling with suburban life and identity.
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C.
Sterne
Sterne is a photographic series by German artist Thomas Ruff that features large-scale, high-contrast images of star fields derived from astronomical observatory negatives.
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D.
Steinman
Steinman is a surname most notably associated with David B. Steinman, an influential American civil engineer and bridge designer.
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E.
Shteiner
Shteiner is an alternative spelling or transliteration of the surname Steiner, which is of German origin and borne by various notable individuals.
- 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: Stern Target entity description: Stern is a prominent German weekly news magazine known for its in-depth reporting, photojournalism, and coverage of politics, society, and culture.
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A.
Stern
Stern is a darkly comic novel by Bruce Jay Friedman that follows the anxieties and misadventures of a neurotic Jewish man grappling with suburban life and identity.
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B.
Stern
Stern is a surname most prominently associated with David Stern, the influential former commissioner of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
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C.
Sterne
Sterne is a photographic series by German artist Thomas Ruff that features large-scale, high-contrast images of star fields derived from astronomical observatory negatives.
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D.
Steinman
Steinman is a surname most notably associated with David B. Steinman, an influential American civil engineer and bridge designer.
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E.
Shteiner
Shteiner is an alternative spelling or transliteration of the surname Steiner, which is of German origin and borne by various notable individuals.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
news magazine
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weekly magazine ⓘ |
| basedIn | Hamburg ⓘ |
| circulationArea | Germany ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Germany ⓘ |
| format | illustrated magazine ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Henri Nannen ⓘ |
| founder | Henri Nannen ⓘ |
| genre |
current affairs magazine
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news magazine ⓘ photojournalism ⓘ political magazine ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
German news magazines
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German-language magazines ⓘ Magazines established in 1948 ⓘ Weekly magazines published in Germany ⓘ |
| hasEdition |
digital edition
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print edition ⓘ |
| hasFocus |
culture
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economy ⓘ international affairs ⓘ politics ⓘ society ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Hamburg ⓘ |
| inception | 1948 ⓘ |
| ISSN | 0039-1239 ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | German ⓘ |
| mediaType |
online
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print ⓘ |
| notableFor |
in-depth reporting
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investigative journalism ⓘ photojournalism ⓘ |
| originalTitle | Stern ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Bertelsmann ⓘ |
| partOf | German press ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment |
centrist
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social-liberal ⓘ |
| publicationFrequency | weekly ⓘ |
| publisher |
Gruner + Jahr
ⓘ
linked to:
Gruner + Jahr USA Publishing
|
| subjectOf | German media studies ⓘ |
| targetAudience | general public ⓘ |
| website | https://www.stern.de ⓘ |
| workLocation | Hamburg ⓘ |
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: Stern Description of subject: Stern is a prominent German weekly news magazine known for its in-depth reporting, photojournalism, and coverage of politics, society, and culture.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.