McClure's Magazine
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McClure's Magazine was an influential American monthly periodical of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, best known for its pioneering muckraking investigative journalism and literary contributions.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| McClure's Magazine canonical | 12 |
| McClure’s Magazine | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3277211 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: McClure's Magazine Context triple: [Frank Norris, employer, McClure's Magazine]
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Scribner's Magazine
Scribner's Magazine was a prominent American literary periodical of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for publishing influential fiction, essays, and illustrations by leading writers and artists of its time.
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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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C.
The Saturday Evening Post
The Saturday Evening Post is a historic American magazine known for its general-interest articles, fiction, and iconic cover art, especially Norman Rockwell’s illustrations.
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D.
Argosy magazine
Argosy magazine was a long-running American pulp and men's adventure periodical known for sensational stories and features that helped popularize mysteries like the Bermuda Triangle.
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E.
The Century Magazine
The Century Magazine was a prominent late-19th- and early-20th-century American monthly periodical known for publishing influential literature, illustrations, and commentary on contemporary culture and politics.
- 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: McClure's Magazine Target entity description: McClure's Magazine was an influential American monthly periodical of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, best known for its pioneering muckraking investigative journalism and literary contributions.
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A.
Scribner's Magazine
Scribner's Magazine was a prominent American literary periodical of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for publishing influential fiction, essays, and illustrations by leading writers and artists of its time.
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B.
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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C.
The Saturday Evening Post
The Saturday Evening Post is a historic American magazine known for its general-interest articles, fiction, and iconic cover art, especially Norman Rockwell’s illustrations.
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D.
Argosy magazine
Argosy magazine was a long-running American pulp and men's adventure periodical known for sensational stories and features that helped popularize mysteries like the Bermuda Triangle.
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E.
The Century Magazine
The Century Magazine was a prominent late-19th- and early-20th-century American monthly periodical known for publishing influential literature, illustrations, and commentary on contemporary culture and politics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: McClure's Magazine Description of subject: McClure's Magazine was an influential American monthly periodical of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, best known for its pioneering muckraking investigative journalism and literary contributions.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: McClure's Magazine
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linked to: McClure's Magazine