Fantastic (magazine)
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Fantastic was an American science fiction and fantasy pulp magazine known for publishing imaginative genre stories during the mid-20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Fantastic (magazine) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10848273 — 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: Fantastic (magazine) Context triple: [Ted White, edited, Fantastic (magazine)]
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A.
Fantastic, Vol. 1
Fantastic, Vol. 1 is an influential early Slum Village album showcasing the group’s soulful, sample-heavy Detroit hip hop sound largely crafted by producer J Dilla.
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B.
Fantastic, Vol. 2
Fantastic, Vol. 2 is a critically acclaimed hip-hop album by Slum Village known for its soulful production and influential role in the evolution of underground rap.
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C.
Uncanny Magazine
Uncanny Magazine is a highly acclaimed online science fiction and fantasy magazine known for publishing innovative, inclusive, and award-winning speculative fiction, poetry, and essays.
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D.
Fire!! (magazine)
Fire!! was a short-lived but influential 1926 literary magazine created by young African American writers and artists of the Harlem Renaissance to showcase bold, experimental work on Black life and culture.
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E.
Galaxy Magazine
Galaxy Magazine was a pioneering American science fiction magazine, especially influential in the mid-20th century for publishing innovative and socially conscious speculative fiction.
- 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: Fantastic (magazine) Target entity description: Fantastic was an American science fiction and fantasy pulp magazine known for publishing imaginative genre stories during the mid-20th century.
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A.
Fantastic, Vol. 1
Fantastic, Vol. 1 is an influential early Slum Village album showcasing the group’s soulful, sample-heavy Detroit hip hop sound largely crafted by producer J Dilla.
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B.
Fantastic, Vol. 2
Fantastic, Vol. 2 is a critically acclaimed hip-hop album by Slum Village known for its soulful production and influential role in the evolution of underground rap.
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C.
Uncanny Magazine
Uncanny Magazine is a highly acclaimed online science fiction and fantasy magazine known for publishing innovative, inclusive, and award-winning speculative fiction, poetry, and essays.
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D.
Fire!! (magazine)
Fire!! was a short-lived but influential 1926 literary magazine created by young African American writers and artists of the Harlem Renaissance to showcase bold, experimental work on Black life and culture.
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E.
Galaxy Magazine
Galaxy Magazine was a pioneering American science fiction magazine, especially influential in the mid-20th century for publishing innovative and socially conscious speculative fiction.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fantasy fiction magazine
ⓘ
pulp magazine ⓘ science fiction magazine ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Amazing Stories ⓘ |
| basedIn | Chicago ⓘ |
| category |
American pulp magazines
ⓘ
defunct fantasy fiction magazines ⓘ defunct science fiction magazines ⓘ |
| circulationArea |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| editor |
Cele Goldsmith
ⓘ
Cele Goldsmith Lalli ⓘ
linked to:
Cele Goldsmith
Edward L. Ferman ⓘ Howard Browne ⓘ |
| finalIssueDate | 1980 ⓘ |
| firstIssueDate | 1952 ⓘ |
| format | digest magazine ⓘ |
| genre |
fantasy
ⓘ
science fiction ⓘ weird fiction ⓘ |
| hasISSN | 0014-7239 ⓘ |
| knownFor |
imaginative fantasy stories
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publishing new science fiction writers ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| notableEditor |
Cele Goldsmith
ⓘ
Edward L. Ferman ⓘ Howard Browne ⓘ |
| period | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| predecessor | Fantastic Adventures ⓘ |
| printFormat | digest size ⓘ |
| printStatus | discontinued ⓘ |
| publicationFrequency |
bimonthly
ⓘ
monthly ⓘ |
| publisher |
Ziff-Davis
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linked to:
Ziff-Davis Publishing Company
|
| sisterPublication | Amazing Stories ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
horror fiction
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speculative fiction ⓘ supernatural fiction ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
fantasy readers
ⓘ
science fiction readers ⓘ |
| timeInHistory |
Golden Age of science fiction
ⓘ
linked to:
Golden Age of Science Fiction
post–World War II era ⓘ |
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: Fantastic (magazine) Description of subject: Fantastic was an American science fiction and fantasy pulp magazine known for publishing imaginative genre stories during the mid-20th century.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.