Dorothy McIlwraith
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Dorothy McIlwraith was an American magazine editor best known for her influential mid-20th-century stewardship of the pulp fantasy and horror magazine Weird Tales.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dorothy McIlwraith canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8316499 — 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: Dorothy McIlwraith Context triple: [Weird Tales, editor, Dorothy McIlwraith]
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A.
Dorothy Harvey
Dorothy Harvey was the first wife of acclaimed American film director and screenwriter John Huston.
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B.
Dorothy Macmillan
Dorothy Macmillan was the mother of British publisher and Conservative politician Maurice Crawford Macmillan and a member of the prominent Macmillan family.
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C.
Muriel McClure
Muriel McClure was the wife of Nobel Prize–winning geneticist George W. Beadle.
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D.
Dorothy Cumming
Dorothy Cumming was an Australian-born silent film actress best known for her role as the Virgin Mary in Cecil B. DeMille’s 1927 biblical epic "The King of Kings."
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E.
Dorothy Collins
Dorothy Collins was a collaborator and co-author with social psychologist Leon Festinger, contributing to influential research in social psychology.
- 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: Dorothy McIlwraith Target entity description: Dorothy McIlwraith was an American magazine editor best known for her influential mid-20th-century stewardship of the pulp fantasy and horror magazine Weird Tales.
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A.
Dorothy Harvey
Dorothy Harvey was the first wife of acclaimed American film director and screenwriter John Huston.
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B.
Dorothy Macmillan
Dorothy Macmillan was the mother of British publisher and Conservative politician Maurice Crawford Macmillan and a member of the prominent Macmillan family.
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C.
Muriel McClure
Muriel McClure was the wife of Nobel Prize–winning geneticist George W. Beadle.
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D.
Dorothy Cumming
Dorothy Cumming was an Australian-born silent film actress best known for her role as the Virgin Mary in Cecil B. DeMille’s 1927 biblical epic "The King of Kings."
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E.
Dorothy Collins
Dorothy Collins was a collaborator and co-author with social psychologist Leon Festinger, contributing to influential research in social psychology.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American person
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human ⓘ magazine editor ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | mid-20th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Weird Tales NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
fantasy fiction
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horror fiction ⓘ publishing ⓘ pulp magazines ⓘ science fiction ⓘ |
| genre |
fantasy
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horror ⓘ pulp fiction ⓘ weird fiction ⓘ |
| hasGender | female ⓘ |
| influenced |
development of mid-20th-century fantasy magazines
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pulp horror publishing ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
editing pulp fantasy and horror fiction
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mid-20th-century stewardship of Weird Tales ⓘ |
| notableWork | Weird Tales NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | magazine editor ⓘ |
| positionHeld | editor of Weird Tales ⓘ |
| workLocation |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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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: Dorothy McIlwraith Description of subject: Dorothy McIlwraith was an American magazine editor best known for her influential mid-20th-century stewardship of the pulp fantasy and horror magazine Weird Tales.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Weird Tales