F. Orlin Tremaine
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F. Orlin Tremaine was an influential American magazine editor best known for shaping early modern science fiction during his tenure at *Astounding Science Fiction* in the 1930s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| F. Orlin Tremaine canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2704730 — 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: F. Orlin Tremaine Context triple: [Astounding Science Fiction, editor, F. Orlin Tremaine]
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A.
Daniel Comstock
Daniel Comstock was an American scientist and engineer best known as a co-founder of Technicolor, a pioneering company in color motion picture technology.
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B.
Daniel Lothrop
Daniel Lothrop was a 19th-century American publisher best known for founding the D. Lothrop Company, which specialized in children's and religious literature.
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C.
Roswell Smith
Roswell Smith was a 19th-century American publisher and businessman best known as a co-founder of The Century Company, which produced the influential magazine "The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine."
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D.
Thomas Teller
Thomas Teller is the younger son of Jackson "Jax" Teller in the television series "Sons of Anarchy."
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E.
Ralph Farquhar
Ralph Farquhar is an American television producer and writer known for his work on influential Black sitcoms and series such as "Moesha" and "The Parkers."
- 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: F. Orlin Tremaine Target entity description: F. Orlin Tremaine was an influential American magazine editor best known for shaping early modern science fiction during his tenure at *Astounding Science Fiction* in the 1930s.
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A.
Daniel Comstock
Daniel Comstock was an American scientist and engineer best known as a co-founder of Technicolor, a pioneering company in color motion picture technology.
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B.
Daniel Lothrop
Daniel Lothrop was a 19th-century American publisher best known for founding the D. Lothrop Company, which specialized in children's and religious literature.
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C.
Roswell Smith
Roswell Smith was a 19th-century American publisher and businessman best known as a co-founder of The Century Company, which produced the influential magazine "The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine."
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D.
Thomas Teller
Thomas Teller is the younger son of Jackson "Jax" Teller in the television series "Sons of Anarchy."
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E.
Ralph Farquhar
Ralph Farquhar is an American television producer and writer known for his work on influential Black sitcoms and series such as "Moesha" and "The Parkers."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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magazine editor ⓘ science fiction editor ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| editor | F. Orlin Tremaine self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| editorialApproach |
emphasis on higher literary standards in science fiction
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encouragement of more sophisticated scientific ideas in stories ⓘ |
| employer | Street & Smith ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
publishing
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science fiction literature ⓘ |
| genre | science fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Frank ⓘ |
| influenced |
development of modern science fiction magazines
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early Golden Age of science fiction ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medium | pulp magazines ⓘ |
| name | F. Orlin Tremaine self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
developing Astounding into a leading science fiction magazine
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shaping early modern science fiction in the 1930s ⓘ |
| notableRole | bridge between pulp-era and modern science fiction ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Astounding Science Fiction
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surface form:
Astounding Science-Fiction
Astounding Stories of Super-Science ⓘ
surface form:
Astounding Stories
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| occupation |
editor
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magazine editor ⓘ science fiction editor ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
editor of Astounding Science-Fiction
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editor of Astounding Stories ⓘ |
| workPeriod | 1930s ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: F. Orlin Tremaine Description of subject: F. Orlin Tremaine was an influential American magazine editor best known for shaping early modern science fiction during his tenure at *Astounding Science Fiction* in the 1930s.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Astounding Science-Fiction