Detective Story Magazine
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Detective Story Magazine was an early 20th-century American pulp magazine specializing in crime and detective fiction, notable for publishing influential genre authors such as Johnston McCulley.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Detective Story Magazine canonical | 2 |
| Street & Smith’s Detective Story Magazine | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3530151 — 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: Detective Story Magazine Context triple: [Johnston McCulley, wroteFor, Detective Story Magazine]
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A.
Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine
Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine is a long-running American periodical devoted to crime and mystery fiction, featuring short stories, novellas, and critical essays by both established and emerging writers in the genre.
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B.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine
Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine is a long-running American digest magazine featuring original crime and mystery short stories, often by leading and emerging genre writers.
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C.
McClure's Magazine
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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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 Expressman and the Detective
The Expressman and the Detective is a 19th-century true-crime detective narrative by Allan Pinkerton, recounting one of his agency’s real-life investigations.
- 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: Detective Story Magazine Target entity description: Detective Story Magazine was an early 20th-century American pulp magazine specializing in crime and detective fiction, notable for publishing influential genre authors such as Johnston McCulley.
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A.
Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine
Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine is a long-running American periodical devoted to crime and mystery fiction, featuring short stories, novellas, and critical essays by both established and emerging writers in the genre.
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B.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine
Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine is a long-running American digest magazine featuring original crime and mystery short stories, often by leading and emerging genre writers.
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C.
McClure's Magazine
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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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 Expressman and the Detective
The Expressman and the Detective is a 19th-century true-crime detective narrative by Allan Pinkerton, recounting one of his agency’s real-life investigations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fiction magazine
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pulp magazine ⓘ |
| ceasedPublicationReason | decline of pulp magazine market ⓘ |
| circulationArea |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| contentType |
editorials
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serialized novels ⓘ short stories ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| coverArtStyle | illustrated painted covers ⓘ |
| distributionFormat | single-issue sales ⓘ |
| editor |
Frank E. Blackwell
ⓘ
Hazel Goodwin ⓘ |
| endPublicationYear | 1949 ⓘ |
| featuredAuthor |
Agnes Christine Johnston
ⓘ
Arthur B. Reeve NERFINISHED ⓘ Frederick Irving Anderson ⓘ H. Bedford-Jones ⓘ Johnston McCulley ⓘ |
| firstIssueDate | 1915-10-05 ⓘ |
| format | pulp ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
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detective fiction ⓘ |
| hasNotableContributor |
Arthur B. Reeve
NERFINISHED
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H. Bedford-Jones ⓘ Johnston McCulley ⓘ |
| historicalEra | early 20th century ⓘ |
| influenced |
hardboiled crime fiction era
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later detective pulp magazines ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| locationOfPublisher | New York City ⓘ |
| medium | print ⓘ |
| notableFor |
early example of dedicated detective-fiction pulp magazine
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influencing development of American detective and crime pulps ⓘ |
| originalTitle |
Detective Story Magazine
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Street & Smith’s Detective Story Magazine
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| ownedBy |
Street & Smith
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surface form:
Street & Smith Publications, Inc.
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| pageCountRange | approximately 144–160 pages per issue ⓘ |
| periodicalType | newsstand magazine ⓘ |
| priceCategory | low-cost popular fiction ⓘ |
| publicationFrequency | weekly ⓘ |
| publisher | Street & Smith ⓘ |
| startPublicationYear | 1915 ⓘ |
| subjectMatter | mystery and crime-solving narratives ⓘ |
| targetAudience | popular mass-market readership ⓘ |
| theme |
amateur and professional detectives
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crime investigation ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Detective Story Magazine Description of subject: Detective Story Magazine was an early 20th-century American pulp magazine specializing in crime and detective fiction, notable for publishing influential genre authors such as Johnston McCulley.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Street & Smith’s Detective Story Magazine