McSweeney's
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McSweeney's is an independent American publishing house and literary magazine known for its innovative, experimental fiction and nonfiction, founded by author Dave Eggers.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| McSweeney's canonical | 7 |
| McSweeney’s | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5070847 — 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: McSweeney's Context triple: [Dave Eggers, founded, McSweeney's]
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A.
The Paris Review
The Paris Review is a renowned American literary magazine celebrated for publishing influential fiction, poetry, and in-depth writer interviews since the 1950s.
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B.
The New Yorker
The New Yorker is an American magazine renowned for its in-depth journalism, literary fiction, cultural commentary, and distinctive cartoons.
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C.
The Magazine of Magazines
The Magazine of Magazines was an 18th-century British periodical that compiled and reprinted notable literary and political works for a broad reading public.
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D.
The Little Review
The Little Review was an influential early 20th-century American literary magazine known for publishing experimental modernist writers, including James Joyce.
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E.
Harper's Magazine
Harper's Magazine is a long-running American monthly magazine known for its literary fiction, essays, and commentary on culture, politics, and society.
- 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: McSweeney's Target entity description: McSweeney's is an independent American publishing house and literary magazine known for its innovative, experimental fiction and nonfiction, founded by author Dave Eggers.
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A.
The Paris Review
The Paris Review is a renowned American literary magazine celebrated for publishing influential fiction, poetry, and in-depth writer interviews since the 1950s.
-
B.
The New Yorker
The New Yorker is an American magazine renowned for its in-depth journalism, literary fiction, cultural commentary, and distinctive cartoons.
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C.
The Magazine of Magazines
The Magazine of Magazines was an 18th-century British periodical that compiled and reprinted notable literary and political works for a broad reading public.
-
D.
The Little Review
The Little Review was an influential early 20th-century American literary magazine known for publishing experimental modernist writers, including James Joyce.
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E.
Harper's Magazine
Harper's Magazine is a long-running American monthly magazine known for its literary fiction, essays, and commentary on culture, politics, and society.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary magazine
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publishing house ⓘ |
| basedIn | San Francisco Bay Area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| focusesOn |
contemporary literature
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essays ⓘ literary experimentation ⓘ short stories ⓘ |
| foundedAs | McSweeney's Quarterly Concern NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Dave Eggers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
fiction
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nonfiction ⓘ |
| hasEditor | Dave Eggers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPart |
McSweeney's Internet Tendency
NERFINISHED
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McSweeney's Quarterly Concern NERFINISHED ⓘ The Believer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.mcsweeneys.net/ ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | San Francisco NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| independent | true ⓘ |
| industry |
book publishing
ⓘ
magazine publishing ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
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| notableFor |
experimental fiction
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experimental nonfiction ⓘ innovative writing ⓘ |
| publicationType |
books
ⓘ
quarterly magazine ⓘ |
| publisherOf |
McSweeney's Internet Tendency
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
McSweeney's Quarterly Concern NERFINISHED ⓘ The Believer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
American literary culture
ⓘ
independent publishing ⓘ |
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: McSweeney's Description of subject: McSweeney's is an independent American publishing house and literary magazine known for its innovative, experimental fiction and nonfiction, founded by author Dave Eggers.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
McSweeney’s