Munsey's Magazine
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Munsey's Magazine was a popular late 19th- and early 20th-century American general-interest periodical known for its mass-market appeal and role in the rise of inexpensive, widely circulated magazines.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Munsey's Magazine canonical | 1 |
| Munsey's Weekly | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9486750 — 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: Munsey's Magazine Context triple: [Frank A. Munsey, founded, Munsey's Magazine]
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A.
Scribner's Magazine
Scribner's Magazine was a prominent American literary periodical of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for publishing influential fiction, essays, and illustrations by leading writers and artists of its time.
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B.
Harper’s New Monthly Magazine
Harper’s New Monthly Magazine was a prominent 19th- and early 20th-century American general-interest periodical known for its literary fiction, essays, illustrations, and cultural commentary.
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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.
Everybody's Magazine
Everybody's Magazine was a popular early 20th-century American general-interest and muckraking periodical known for its investigative journalism and social reform articles.
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E.
Collier’s magazine
Collier’s magazine was a popular American general-interest weekly periodical known for its fiction, investigative journalism, and influential illustrations during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- 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: Munsey's Magazine Target entity description: Munsey's Magazine was a popular late 19th- and early 20th-century American general-interest periodical known for its mass-market appeal and role in the rise of inexpensive, widely circulated magazines.
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A.
Scribner's Magazine
Scribner's Magazine was a prominent American literary periodical of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for publishing influential fiction, essays, and illustrations by leading writers and artists of its time.
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B.
Harper’s New Monthly Magazine
Harper’s New Monthly Magazine was a prominent 19th- and early 20th-century American general-interest periodical known for its literary fiction, essays, illustrations, and cultural commentary.
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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.
Everybody's Magazine
Everybody's Magazine was a popular early 20th-century American general-interest and muckraking periodical known for its investigative journalism and social reform articles.
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E.
Collier’s magazine
Collier’s magazine was a popular American general-interest weekly periodical known for its fiction, investigative journalism, and influential illustrations during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American periodical
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magazine ⓘ |
| associatedWith | rise of inexpensive, widely circulated magazines in the United States ⓘ |
| businessModel |
high circulation, low cover price strategy
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reliance on advertising revenue ⓘ |
| circulationCharacteristic | mass-market ⓘ |
| contentIncludes |
articles on current events
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essays ⓘ illustrations ⓘ serialized novels ⓘ short stories ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| distributionArea | national distribution in the United States ⓘ |
| editorialPolicy | popular, accessible content ⓘ |
| endOfPublication | early 20th century ⓘ |
| format | pulp magazine ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Frank A. Munsey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
fiction
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general interest ⓘ illustrated magazine ⓘ nonfiction ⓘ |
| hasContributor |
various American fiction writers of the period
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various American illustrators of the period ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | New York City ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | example of transition from elite to mass-market magazine publishing in the U.S. ⓘ |
| inception | 1889 ⓘ |
| influenced |
American popular fiction markets
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development of pulp magazines ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| marketPosition | competitor to other general-interest magazines of its era ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| notableFor |
helping establish the mass-market magazine in the United States
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use of inexpensive pulp paper to reduce costs ⓘ wide national circulation ⓘ |
| originalTitle | The Munsey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| paperType | pulp paper ⓘ |
| peakPeriod |
early 20th century
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late 19th century ⓘ |
| priceCharacteristic | low-priced ⓘ |
| printingTechnology | mass-production printing techniques ⓘ |
| publicationFrequency | monthly ⓘ |
| publisher | Frank A. Munsey Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publisherOccupation | Frank A. Munsey was a newspaper and magazine publisher NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| targetAudience | general American reading public ⓘ |
| titleChange | Renamed Munsey's Magazine in 1891 ⓘ |
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: Munsey's Magazine Description of subject: Munsey's Magazine was a popular late 19th- and early 20th-century American general-interest periodical known for its mass-market appeal and role in the rise of inexpensive, widely circulated magazines.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Munsey's Weekly