Weird Tales magazine
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Weird Tales magazine is a pioneering American pulp magazine, first published in 1923, renowned for its influential weird fiction and horror stories by authors such as H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Weird Tales | 14 |
| Weird Tales magazine canonical | 3 |
| American weird fiction | 1 |
| Weird Tales, Inc. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1715117 — 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: Weird Tales magazine Context triple: [H. P. Lovecraft, associatedWith, Weird Tales magazine]
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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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Science Wonder Stories
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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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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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.
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E.
The Monster and Other Stories
The Monster and Other Stories is a collection of short fiction by American author Stephen Crane, showcasing his realist style and exploration of moral and social themes.
- 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: Weird Tales magazine Target entity description: Weird Tales magazine is a pioneering American pulp magazine, first published in 1923, renowned for its influential weird fiction and horror stories by authors such as H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard.
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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.
Science Wonder Stories
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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C.
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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D.
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.
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E.
The Monster and Other Stories
The Monster and Other Stories is a collection of short fiction by American author Stephen Crane, showcasing his realist style and exploration of moral and social themes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
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: Weird Tales magazine Description of subject: Weird Tales magazine is a pioneering American pulp magazine, first published in 1923, renowned for its influential weird fiction and horror stories by authors such as H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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