The New Humanist
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The New Humanist was a mid-20th-century American magazine associated with secular humanism and progressive thought, known for publishing the original Humanist Manifesto.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The New Humanist canonical | 1 |
| The New Humanist magazine | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7273539 — 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: The New Humanist Context triple: [Humanist Manifesto I, publishedBy, The New Humanist]
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A.
The Humanist
The Humanist is a bi-monthly magazine that explores humanist philosophy, ethics, social justice, and secular issues from a nonreligious perspective.
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B.
The University Bookman
The University Bookman is a long-running conservative literary and cultural journal known for its book reviews and essays on politics, tradition, and society.
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C.
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.
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D.
Letter on Humanism
Letter on Humanism is a 1947 philosophical essay by Martin Heidegger in which he critiques traditional humanism and elaborates his later thinking on Being, language, and the essence of humanity.
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E.
The Fortnightly Review
The Fortnightly Review was a prominent 19th-century British literary and political periodical known for publishing influential fiction, criticism, and essays by leading Victorian writers.
- 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: The New Humanist Target entity description: The New Humanist was a mid-20th-century American magazine associated with secular humanism and progressive thought, known for publishing the original Humanist Manifesto.
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A.
The Humanist
The Humanist is a bi-monthly magazine that explores humanist philosophy, ethics, social justice, and secular issues from a nonreligious perspective.
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B.
The University Bookman
The University Bookman is a long-running conservative literary and cultural journal known for its book reviews and essays on politics, tradition, and society.
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C.
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.
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D.
Letter on Humanism
Letter on Humanism is a 1947 philosophical essay by Martin Heidegger in which he critiques traditional humanism and elaborates his later thinking on Being, language, and the essence of humanity.
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E.
The Fortnightly Review
The Fortnightly Review was a prominent 19th-century British literary and political periodical known for publishing influential fiction, criticism, and essays by leading Victorian writers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
magazine
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periodical ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
progressive thought
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secular humanism ⓘ |
| countryOfPublication |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| editorialStance |
critical of traditional religion
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supportive of church–state separation ⓘ supportive of scientific naturalism ⓘ |
| genre |
freethought magazine
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humanist magazine ⓘ philosophy magazine ⓘ |
| hasDocument | Humanist Manifesto NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ideology |
humanism
ⓘ
progressivism ⓘ secularism ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| movement |
American humanist movement
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secular humanist movement ⓘ |
| notableFor | publishing the original Humanist Manifesto ⓘ |
| orientation |
non-religious
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non-theistic ⓘ pro-science ⓘ |
| publicationPeriod | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| roleInMovement | platform for early secular humanist ideas in the United States ⓘ |
| subject |
ethics
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philosophy of humanism ⓘ politics ⓘ religion and secularism ⓘ social issues ⓘ |
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: The New Humanist Description of subject: The New Humanist was a mid-20th-century American magazine associated with secular humanism and progressive thought, known for publishing the original Humanist Manifesto.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The New Humanist magazine