Time
E800
Time is a major American news magazine known for its influential coverage of current events, politics, and culture.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Time canonical | 17 |
| TIME | 1 |
| Time special issues | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3359 — 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: Time Context triple: [Time Person of the Year, presentedBy, Time]
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A.
Time editors
Time editors are the editorial staff of Time magazine responsible for making major journalistic decisions, including choosing the annual Time Person of the Year.
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B.
Time Person of the Year
Time Person of the Year is an annual recognition by Time magazine given to an individual, group, or concept that has had the most significant impact on world events during the year.
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C.
Blitz
The Blitz was the sustained German bombing campaign against the United Kingdom, particularly London, during 1940–1941 in World War II.
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D.
Tymshare
Tymshare was an influential American time-sharing and computer services company active in the 1960s–1980s that helped pioneer remote computing and software services for businesses.
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E.
Phoney War
The Phoney War was the early phase of World War II (September 1939–April 1940) on the Western Front, marked by a lack of major military operations despite the formal state of war between the Allies and Germany.
- 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: Time Target entity description: Time is a major American news magazine known for its influential coverage of current events, politics, and culture.
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A.
Time editors
Time editors are the editorial staff of Time magazine responsible for making major journalistic decisions, including choosing the annual Time Person of the Year.
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B.
Time Person of the Year
Time Person of the Year is an annual recognition by Time magazine given to an individual, group, or concept that has had the most significant impact on world events during the year.
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C.
Blitz
The Blitz was the sustained German bombing campaign against the United Kingdom, particularly London, during 1940–1941 in World War II.
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D.
Tymshare
Tymshare was an influential American time-sharing and computer services company active in the 1960s–1980s that helped pioneer remote computing and software services for businesses.
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E.
Phoney War
The Phoney War was the early phase of World War II (September 1939–April 1940) on the Western Front, marked by a lack of major military operations despite the formal state of war between the Allies and Germany.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American magazine
ⓘ
news magazine ⓘ weekly magazine ⓘ |
| acquiredByCurrentOwners | 2018 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| covers |
U.S. politics
ⓘ
business ⓘ culture ⓘ entertainment ⓘ health ⓘ science ⓘ technology ⓘ world news ⓘ |
| firstIssueDate | March 3, 1923 ⓘ |
| formerOwner |
Time Warner
ⓘ
Time Warner ⓘ
surface form:
WarnerMedia
|
| formerPublisher | Time Inc. ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Briton Hadden
ⓘ
Henry Luce ⓘ |
| frequency | weekly ⓘ |
| genre |
culture
ⓘ
current affairs ⓘ news ⓘ politics ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
influential coverage of culture
ⓘ
influential coverage of current events ⓘ influential coverage of politics ⓘ |
| hasEdition |
Time South Pacific
ⓘ
surface form:
Time Asia
Time Canada ⓘ Time Europe ⓘ Time South Pacific ⓘ |
| hasFormat | illustrated magazine ⓘ |
| hasISSN | 0040-781X ⓘ |
| hasOnlinePresence |
Time magazine
ⓘ
surface form:
Time.com
|
| headquartersLocation |
New York
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| inception | 1923 ⓘ |
| isOneOf | major American news magazines ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mediaType |
digital
ⓘ
print ⓘ |
| notableFeature | Person of the Year ⓘ |
| owner |
Lynne Benioff
ⓘ
Marc Benioff ⓘ |
| PersonOfTheYearFirstAwarded | 1927 ⓘ |
| publisher |
Time Inc.
ⓘ
surface form:
Time USA, LLC
|
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: Time Description of subject: Time is a major American news magazine known for its influential coverage of current events, politics, and culture.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Time special issues
this entity surface form:
TIME