The Reasoner
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The Reasoner was a 19th-century British freethought and secularist periodical associated with radical social and religious reform.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Reasoner canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8215636 — 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: The Reasoner Context triple: [George Holyoake, editorOf, The Reasoner]
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A.
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is a comic science fiction detective novel by Douglas Adams that follows the eccentric "holistic detective" Dirk Gently as he solves mysteries through the interconnectedness of all things.
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B.
The Red Armchair
The Red Armchair is a famous 1932 portrait by Pablo Picasso depicting his lover and muse Marie-Thérèse Walter in his distinctive Cubist style.
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C.
The Code of the Mulliners
The Code of the Mulliners is a humorous short story by P. G. Wodehouse featuring one of Mr Mulliner’s comic family anecdotes set in his whimsical fictional universe.
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D.
Invocation of Ratiocination
"Invocation of Ratiocination" is an instrumental track by Bill Callahan from his critically acclaimed album "Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle," noted for its atmospheric, contemplative mood.
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E.
The Order of Things
The Order of Things is a seminal 1966 work of philosophy by Michel Foucault that analyzes how different historical periods have structured knowledge and the human sciences.
- 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: The Reasoner Target entity description: The Reasoner was a 19th-century British freethought and secularist periodical associated with radical social and religious reform.
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A.
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency is a comic science fiction detective novel by Douglas Adams that follows the eccentric "holistic detective" Dirk Gently as he solves mysteries through the interconnectedness of all things.
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B.
The Red Armchair
The Red Armchair is a famous 1932 portrait by Pablo Picasso depicting his lover and muse Marie-Thérèse Walter in his distinctive Cubist style.
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C.
The Code of the Mulliners
The Code of the Mulliners is a humorous short story by P. G. Wodehouse featuring one of Mr Mulliner’s comic family anecdotes set in his whimsical fictional universe.
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D.
Invocation of Ratiocination
"Invocation of Ratiocination" is an instrumental track by Bill Callahan from his critically acclaimed album "Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle," noted for its atmospheric, contemplative mood.
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E.
The Order of Things
The Order of Things is a seminal 1966 work of philosophy by Michel Foucault that analyzes how different historical periods have structured knowledge and the human sciences.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
19th-century British periodical
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freethought periodical ⓘ secularist periodical ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
freethought movement
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radical religious reform ⓘ radical social reform ⓘ secularism ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 19th century ⓘ |
| countryOfPublication | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
critique of religion
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religious reform ⓘ social reform ⓘ |
| genre | periodical ⓘ |
| hasPoliticalOrientation | radical ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium | print ⓘ |
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: The Reasoner Description of subject: The Reasoner was a 19th-century British freethought and secularist periodical associated with radical social and religious reform.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.