American Journal of Science
E31563
The American Journal of Science is a long-running, peer-reviewed scientific journal, historically influential in publishing foundational research in physics and the earth sciences.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| American Journal of Science canonical | 6 |
| Am. J. Sci. | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T244340 — 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 Journal of Science Context triple: [Michelson–Morley experiment, publishedIn, American Journal of Science]
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A.
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society is a long-running scholarly journal that publishes monographic studies and research across a wide range of academic disciplines.
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B.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences is a leading peer-reviewed multidisciplinary scientific journal publishing high-impact research across the biological, physical, and social sciences.
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C.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society is a pioneering scientific journal, first published in 1665, that is widely regarded as the world’s oldest continuously published journal devoted to science.
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D.
Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society
Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society is a long-running scholarly journal featuring research articles, historical studies, and papers presented under the auspices of the American Philosophical Society.
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E.
Scilight
Scilight is an online publication from the American Institute of Physics that highlights noteworthy and emerging research across the physical sciences in brief, accessible summaries.
- 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 Journal of Science Target entity description: The American Journal of Science is a long-running, peer-reviewed scientific journal, historically influential in publishing foundational research in physics and the earth sciences.
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A.
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society is a long-running scholarly journal that publishes monographic studies and research across a wide range of academic disciplines.
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B.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences is a leading peer-reviewed multidisciplinary scientific journal publishing high-impact research across the biological, physical, and social sciences.
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C.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society is a pioneering scientific journal, first published in 1665, that is widely regarded as the world’s oldest continuously published journal devoted to science.
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D.
Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society
Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society is a long-running scholarly journal featuring research articles, historical studies, and papers presented under the auspices of the American Philosophical Society.
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E.
Scilight
Scilight is an online publication from the American Institute of Physics that highlights noteworthy and emerging research across the physical sciences in brief, accessible summaries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic journal
ⓘ
peer-reviewed journal ⓘ scientific journal ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
AJS
ⓘ
Am. J. Sci. ⓘ
linked to:
American Journal of Science
|
| countryOfPublication |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| field |
earth sciences
ⓘ
geology ⓘ natural sciences ⓘ physics ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
environmental earth science
ⓘ
foundational research in earth sciences ⓘ foundational research in physics ⓘ geological processes ⓘ geophysics ⓘ mineralogy ⓘ paleontology ⓘ petrology ⓘ stratigraphy ⓘ tectonics ⓘ |
| hasAudience |
academics
ⓘ
researchers ⓘ scientists ⓘ students ⓘ |
| hasContentType |
research
ⓘ
scholarly articles ⓘ |
| hasDiscipline |
geosciences
ⓘ
physical sciences ⓘ |
| hasFormat |
online
ⓘ
print ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalRole |
development of geology as a discipline
ⓘ
dissemination of early American scientific research ⓘ |
| hasPeerReviewPolicy | external expert review ⓘ |
| hasPublicationType | periodical ⓘ |
| hasReputation | high impact in earth sciences ⓘ |
| hasScope | international ⓘ |
| isHistoricallyInfluential | true ⓘ |
| isIndexedIn | major scientific databases ⓘ |
| isOngoing | true ⓘ |
| isRefereed | true ⓘ |
| isScholarly | true ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| publishes |
empirical studies
ⓘ
original research articles ⓘ review articles ⓘ short communications ⓘ theoretical studies ⓘ work by international authors ⓘ |
| reviewProcess | peer review ⓘ |
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 Journal of Science Description of subject: The American Journal of Science is a long-running, peer-reviewed scientific journal, historically influential in publishing foundational research in physics and the earth sciences.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: American Journal of Science
subject linked to:
AJS
linked to: American Journal of Science