Showcase #4
E950590
Showcase #4 is a landmark 1956 DC Comics issue that introduced the revamped Flash (Barry Allen) and is widely regarded as the comic that launched the Silver Age of Comic Books.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Showcase #4 canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11872085 — 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: Showcase #4 Context triple: [Silver Age of Comic Books, notableDebutTitle, Showcase #4]
-
A.
The Show
The Show is the famously raucous and creative student fan section known for energizing San Diego State University men's basketball games with elaborate chants, costumes, and coordinated displays.
-
B.
The Show
The Show is Niall Horan’s third studio album, showcasing his evolution as a solo pop artist with introspective songwriting and polished production.
-
C.
Show and Prove
Show and Prove is the first full-length studio album by American rapper Wiz Khalifa, showcasing his early Pittsburgh-rooted hip hop style.
-
D.
The Big Show-Off
The Big Show-Off is a 1945 American comedy film featuring actress Frances Drake in a prominent role.
-
E.
"The Show"
"The Show" is the tagline used to promote and encapsulate the experience of the Telluride Film Festival, emphasizing its focus on cinematic presentation and spectacle.
- 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: Showcase #4 Target entity description: Showcase #4 is a landmark 1956 DC Comics issue that introduced the revamped Flash (Barry Allen) and is widely regarded as the comic that launched the Silver Age of Comic Books.
-
A.
The Show
The Show is the famously raucous and creative student fan section known for energizing San Diego State University men's basketball games with elaborate chants, costumes, and coordinated displays.
-
B.
The Show
The Show is Niall Horan’s third studio album, showcasing his evolution as a solo pop artist with introspective songwriting and polished production.
-
C.
Show and Prove
Show and Prove is the first full-length studio album by American rapper Wiz Khalifa, showcasing his early Pittsburgh-rooted hip hop style.
-
D.
The Big Show-Off
The Big Show-Off is a 1945 American comedy film featuring actress Frances Drake in a prominent role.
-
E.
"The Show"
"The Show" is the tagline used to promote and encapsulate the experience of the Telluride Film Festival, emphasizing its focus on cinematic presentation and spectacle.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
DC Comics publication
ⓘ
comic book issue ⓘ |
| chronologicalPositionInSeries | early Showcase run ⓘ |
| countryOfPublication |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| eraLaunched | Silver Age of Comic Books NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresAlterEgoOfCharacter | Barry Allen GENERATED ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Barry Allen
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Flash NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| format | anthology series issue ⓘ |
| genre | superhero comics ⓘ |
| hasCulturalStatus | landmark comic book issue ⓘ |
| hasLegacy | highly influential in superhero revival ⓘ |
| introducesConcept | revamped Flash ⓘ |
| introducesVersionOfCharacter | Barry Allen as The Flash NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| issueNumber | 4 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium | print ⓘ |
| notableFor |
introducing the Silver Age Flash
ⓘ
launching the Silver Age of Comic Books ⓘ |
| predecessorCharacter | Jay Garrick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDecade | 1950s ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1956 ⓘ |
| publisher | DC Comics ⓘ |
| series | Showcase ⓘ |
| universe | DC Universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Showcase #4 Description of subject: Showcase #4 is a landmark 1956 DC Comics issue that introduced the revamped Flash (Barry Allen) and is widely regarded as the comic that launched the Silver Age of Comic Books.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Barry Allen