Science Wonder Stories
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Science Wonder Stories was an early American science fiction magazine that helped popularize and shape the genre in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Science Wonder Stories canonical | 3 |
| Wonder Stories | 3 |
| Science Wonder Quarterly | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1165340 — 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: Science Wonder Stories Context triple: [Hugo Gernsback, founded, Science Wonder Stories]
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A.
Amazing Stories
Amazing Stories is a pioneering American science fiction magazine first published in 1926, widely regarded as the first magazine devoted exclusively to science fiction.
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B.
Air Wonder Stories
Air Wonder Stories was an early American science fiction pulp magazine edited and published by Hugo Gernsback that focused on aviation-themed speculative tales.
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C.
Astounding Science Fiction
Astounding Science Fiction was a highly influential American science fiction magazine, best known for shaping the Golden Age of the genre under editor John W. Campbell.
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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 Strand Magazine
The Strand Magazine was a popular late 19th- and early 20th-century British monthly periodical best known for publishing Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories and other notable works of fiction.
- 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: Science Wonder Stories Target entity description: Science Wonder Stories was an early American science fiction magazine that helped popularize and shape the genre in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
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A.
Amazing Stories
Amazing Stories is a pioneering American science fiction magazine first published in 1926, widely regarded as the first magazine devoted exclusively to science fiction.
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B.
Air Wonder Stories
Air Wonder Stories was an early American science fiction pulp magazine edited and published by Hugo Gernsback that focused on aviation-themed speculative tales.
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C.
Astounding Science Fiction
Astounding Science Fiction was a highly influential American science fiction magazine, best known for shaping the Golden Age of the genre under editor John W. Campbell.
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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 Strand Magazine
The Strand Magazine was a popular late 19th- and early 20th-century British monthly periodical best known for publishing Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories and other notable works of fiction.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
pulp magazine
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science fiction magazine ⓘ |
| aimedTo | promote scientifiction ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Science Wonder Stories
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surface form:
Science Wonder Quarterly
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| associatedWith | Hugo Gernsback ⓘ |
| category |
American magazines
ⓘ
defunct magazines of the United States ⓘ science fiction magazines ⓘ |
| countryOfPublication |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| coverArtStyle | pulp illustration ⓘ |
| editor | Hugo Gernsback ⓘ |
| editorialFocus | scientific plausibility in fiction ⓘ |
| endPublicationYear | 1930 ⓘ |
| format | pulp magazine ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Hugo Gernsback ⓘ |
| founder | Hugo Gernsback ⓘ |
| frequency | monthly ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction ⓘ |
| helpedPopularize | science fiction genre ⓘ |
| influenced |
American science fiction
ⓘ
later science fiction magazines ⓘ |
| languageOfPublication | English ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| mergedInto |
Thrilling Wonder Stories
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surface form:
Wonder Stories
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| notableEditor | Hugo Gernsback ⓘ |
| notableFor | shaping early American science fiction ⓘ |
| periodicalType | genre fiction magazine ⓘ |
| precededBy | Amazing Stories ⓘ |
| printingProcess | pulp paper ⓘ |
| printStatus | discontinued ⓘ |
| publicationCity | New York City ⓘ |
| publicationEra |
early 1930s
ⓘ
late 1920s ⓘ |
| publicationScheduleChange | renamed as Wonder Stories in 1930 ⓘ |
| publisher | Experimenter Publishing Company ⓘ |
| startPublicationYear | 1929 ⓘ |
| successor |
Thrilling Wonder Stories
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surface form:
Wonder Stories
|
| targetAudience | science fiction readers ⓘ |
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: Science Wonder Stories Description of subject: Science Wonder Stories was an early American science fiction magazine that helped popularize and shape the genre in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Wonder Stories
this entity surface form:
Wonder Stories
this entity surface form:
Science Wonder Quarterly
this entity surface form:
Wonder Stories