Icons (Time 100 category)
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Icons (Time 100 category) is a section of Time magazine’s annual list that highlights individuals celebrated primarily for their cultural influence, symbolic significance, and enduring public impact.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Icons (Time 100 category) canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T986894 — 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: Icons (Time 100 category) Context triple: [Titans (Time 100 category), contrastedWith, Icons (Time 100 category)]
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A.
Logos
Logos is a central concept in Christian theology referring to the divine Word or reason of God, identified with Christ as the preexistent and incarnate Son.
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B.
IAC
IAC is a U.S.-based media and internet holding company that owns and operates a wide portfolio of online brands and digital services.
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C.
Obvious Corporation
Obvious Corporation was the early holding company and development vehicle created by Twitter’s founders that incubated and spun out Twitter as an independent company.
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D.
IC
IC is a common abbreviation for Iowa City, a university-centered community best known as the home of the University of Iowa and its renowned Writers' Workshop.
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E.
InterActiveCorp
InterActiveCorp is a media and internet conglomerate known for owning and operating a diverse portfolio of online brands and services.
- 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: Icons (Time 100 category) Target entity description: Icons (Time 100 category) is a section of Time magazine’s annual list that highlights individuals celebrated primarily for their cultural influence, symbolic significance, and enduring public impact.
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A.
Logos
Logos is a central concept in Christian theology referring to the divine Word or reason of God, identified with Christ as the preexistent and incarnate Son.
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B.
IAC
IAC is a U.S.-based media and internet holding company that owns and operates a wide portfolio of online brands and digital services.
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C.
Obvious Corporation
Obvious Corporation was the early holding company and development vehicle created by Twitter’s founders that incubated and spun out Twitter as an independent company.
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D.
IC
IC is a common abbreviation for Iowa City, a university-centered community best known as the home of the University of Iowa and its renowned Writers' Workshop.
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E.
InterActiveCorp
InterActiveCorp is a media and internet conglomerate known for owning and operating a diverse portfolio of online brands and services.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Time 100 category
ⓘ
editorial category ⓘ |
| appearsIn | annual Time 100 issue ⓘ |
| contrastedWith |
Artists (Time 100 category)
ⓘ
linked to:
Time 100 Most Influential People
Innovators (Time 100 category) ⓘ Leaders (Time 100 category) ⓘ
linked to:
Time 100 Most Influential People
Pioneers (Time 100 category) ⓘ Titans (Time 100 category) ⓘ
linked to:
Titans
|
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| describedAs | section of Time magazine’s annual list that highlights individuals celebrated primarily for their cultural influence, symbolic significance, and enduring public impact ⓘ |
| hasAudience | global readership of Time magazine ⓘ |
| hasFocus |
cultural influence
ⓘ
enduring public impact ⓘ symbolic significance ⓘ |
| hasFrequency | annual ⓘ |
| hasNotableCharacteristic | emphasis on symbolic and cultural resonance over formal power ⓘ |
| hasTemporalCoverage | 21st century ⓘ |
| hasTypeOfHonoree |
cultural figures
ⓘ
public figures ⓘ symbolic leaders ⓘ |
| isA | category of influential people ⓘ |
| isAbout | influential individuals recognized as cultural icons ⓘ |
| isSubsetOf |
Time 100 honorees
ⓘ
linked to:
Time 100 Most Influential People
|
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mediaType | magazine list ⓘ |
| partOf |
Time 100
ⓘ
linked to:
Time 100 Most Influential People
|
| publishedIn | Time magazine ⓘ |
| publisher |
Time USA, LLC
ⓘ
linked to:
Time Inc.
|
| selectionCriteriaIncludes |
cultural impact
ⓘ
public recognition ⓘ symbolic or emblematic status ⓘ |
| usedFor | grouping honorees in the Time 100 list ⓘ |
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: Icons (Time 100 category) Description of subject: Icons (Time 100 category) is a section of Time magazine’s annual list that highlights individuals celebrated primarily for their cultural influence, symbolic significance, and enduring public impact.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.