American Magazine
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American Magazine was a popular early 20th-century U.S. general-interest periodical known for its fiction, commentary, and contributions from prominent writers.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The American Magazine | 2 |
| American Magazine canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10236115 — 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: American Magazine Context triple: [Irvin S. Cobb, wroteForPublication, American Magazine]
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A.
American Spirit magazine
American Spirit magazine is the official publication of the Daughters of the American Revolution, featuring articles on American history, genealogy, historic preservation, and patriotism.
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B.
Chance magazine
Chance magazine is a popular statistics-focused publication that presents statistical ideas, applications, and case studies to a broad audience, often highlighting real-world data and current events.
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C.
Life magazine
Life magazine was a hugely influential American weekly publication best known for its pioneering photojournalism and vivid visual coverage of 20th-century events and culture.
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D.
Collier’s magazine
Collier’s magazine was a popular American general-interest weekly periodical known for its fiction, investigative journalism, and influential illustrations during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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E.
American Weekly
American Weekly was a widely circulated Sunday newspaper supplement in the United States, best known for its sensational features, illustrations, and entertainment content during the mid-20th century.
- 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: American Magazine Target entity description: American Magazine was a popular early 20th-century U.S. general-interest periodical known for its fiction, commentary, and contributions from prominent writers.
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A.
American Spirit magazine
American Spirit magazine is the official publication of the Daughters of the American Revolution, featuring articles on American history, genealogy, historic preservation, and patriotism.
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B.
Chance magazine
Chance magazine is a popular statistics-focused publication that presents statistical ideas, applications, and case studies to a broad audience, often highlighting real-world data and current events.
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C.
Life magazine
Life magazine was a hugely influential American weekly publication best known for its pioneering photojournalism and vivid visual coverage of 20th-century events and culture.
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D.
Collier’s magazine
Collier’s magazine was a popular American general-interest weekly periodical known for its fiction, investigative journalism, and influential illustrations during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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E.
American Weekly
American Weekly was a widely circulated Sunday newspaper supplement in the United States, best known for its sensational features, illustrations, and entertainment content during the mid-20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | magazine ⓘ |
| circulationArea | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfPublication |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| editor |
Ida M. Tarbell
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lincoln Steffens NERFINISHED ⓘ Ray Stannard Baker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| endTime | 1956 ⓘ |
| era |
Progressive Era
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
interwar period ⓘ post–World War II period ⓘ |
| genre |
commentary
ⓘ
fiction ⓘ general-interest ⓘ nonfiction ⓘ |
| hasFormat | illustrated magazine ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | New York City ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| notableContributor |
Booth Tarkington
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Fannie Hurst NERFINISHED ⓘ Ida M. Tarbell NERFINISHED ⓘ Lincoln Steffens NERFINISHED ⓘ O. Henry NERFINISHED ⓘ Ray Stannard Baker NERFINISHED ⓘ Ring Lardner NERFINISHED ⓘ Theodore Roosevelt NERFINISHED ⓘ Upton Sinclair NERFINISHED ⓘ Willa Cather NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
mix of fiction and commentary
ⓘ
muckraking journalism in early years ⓘ publishing prominent American writers ⓘ |
| peakPopularityPeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| precededBy |
Leslie’s Monthly Magazine
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The American Illustrated Magazine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationFrequency | monthly ⓘ |
| publicationStatus | defunct ⓘ |
| publisher |
Crowell Publishing Company
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Crowell-Collier Publishing Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startTime | 1906 ⓘ |
| subjectFocus |
biographical sketches
ⓘ
current events ⓘ human-interest stories ⓘ politics ⓘ short stories ⓘ social issues ⓘ |
| targetAudience | general American readership ⓘ |
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: American Magazine Description of subject: American Magazine was a popular early 20th-century U.S. general-interest periodical known for its fiction, commentary, and contributions from prominent writers.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The American Magazine
this entity surface form:
The American Magazine