Fast Company
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Fast Company is a leading American business media brand and magazine focused on innovation in technology, leadership, and design.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Fast Company canonical | 6 |
| Fast Company magazine | 2 |
| Fast Company Most Creative People in Business | 1 |
| Fast Company Most Innovative Companies | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T805982 — 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: Fast Company Context triple: [Tony Schwartz, hasWrittenFor, Fast Company]
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A.
Fortune magazine
Fortune magazine is a prominent American business publication known for its in-depth reporting on corporate affairs, economics, and its influential rankings such as the Fortune 500.
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B.
Forbes
Forbes is a global media company best known for its business magazine that ranks and profiles the world’s wealthiest individuals, companies, and influential leaders.
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C.
Forbes
Forbes is a historic rural town in central-west New South Wales, Australia, known for its agricultural industry and heritage architecture along the Lachlan River.
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D.
Time Inc.
Time Inc. was a major American media company best known for publishing influential magazines such as Time, Life, Sports Illustrated, and Fortune.
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E.
The Economist
The Economist is an international weekly news and business publication known for its in-depth analysis and commentary on global politics, economics, and current affairs.
- 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: Fast Company Target entity description: Fast Company is a leading American business media brand and magazine focused on innovation in technology, leadership, and design.
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A.
Fortune magazine
Fortune magazine is a prominent American business publication known for its in-depth reporting on corporate affairs, economics, and its influential rankings such as the Fortune 500.
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B.
Forbes
Forbes is a global media company best known for its business magazine that ranks and profiles the world’s wealthiest individuals, companies, and influential leaders.
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C.
Forbes
Forbes is a historic rural town in central-west New South Wales, Australia, known for its agricultural industry and heritage architecture along the Lachlan River.
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D.
Time Inc.
Time Inc. was a major American media company best known for publishing influential magazines such as Time, Life, Sports Illustrated, and Fortune.
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E.
The Economist
The Economist is an international weekly news and business publication known for its in-depth analysis and commentary on global politics, economics, and current affairs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
business magazine
ⓘ
media brand ⓘ website ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | Mansueto Ventures ⓘ |
| acquisitionYear | 2005 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| coversTopic |
creative industries
ⓘ
entrepreneurship ⓘ management ⓘ social impact ⓘ sustainability ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
business
ⓘ
design ⓘ innovation ⓘ leadership ⓘ technology ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Alan Webber
ⓘ
Bill Taylor ⓘ |
| foundedIn | 1995 ⓘ |
| genre |
business journalism
ⓘ
design journalism ⓘ technology journalism ⓘ |
| hasAwardProgram |
Fast Company Innovation by Design Awards
ⓘ
Fast Company self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Fast Company Most Creative People in Business
Fast Company self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Fast Company Most Innovative Companies
Fast Company World Changing Ideas Awards ⓘ |
| hasEditorInChief | Brendan Vaughan ⓘ |
| hasFormat |
online
ⓘ
print ⓘ |
| hasISSN | 1085-9241 ⓘ |
| hasPublicationFrequency | 8 issues per year ⓘ |
| hasSection |
co.design section
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co.exist section ⓘ leadership section ⓘ technology section ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.fastcompany.com ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
New York
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| language | English ⓘ |
| mediaType |
magazine
ⓘ
online news ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Mansueto Ventures ⓘ |
| publisher | Mansueto Ventures ⓘ |
| publishes |
Fast Company
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Fast Company magazine
|
| targetAudience |
business professionals
ⓘ
designers ⓘ entrepreneurs ⓘ technology leaders ⓘ |
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: Fast Company Description of subject: Fast Company is a leading American business media brand and magazine focused on innovation in technology, leadership, and design.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Fast Company magazine
this entity surface form:
Fast Company Most Innovative Companies
this entity surface form:
Fast Company Most Creative People in Business
this entity surface form:
Fast Company magazine