The Bellingham Herald
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The Bellingham Herald is a daily newspaper serving Bellingham and the surrounding Whatcom County area in Washington state.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Bellingham Herald canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12874593 — 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)
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Target entity: The Bellingham Herald Context triple: [McClatchy Company, owns, The Bellingham Herald]
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A.
Bellingham, Washington
Bellingham, Washington is a coastal city in the northwestern United States known as a gateway to the San Juan Islands and Alaska, with a busy port, outdoor recreation, and a vibrant college-town atmosphere.
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B.
City of Bellingham
The City of Bellingham is a municipal government in Washington State that oversees local services, planning, and community development for the city of Bellingham.
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C.
Bellingham
Bellingham is a small village in Northumberland, England, known as a gateway to the North Tyne valley and the surrounding Northumberland National Park.
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D.
Bellingham
Bellingham is a residential district in southeast London known for its 20th-century housing estates and local community amenities.
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E.
Bellingham City Council
Bellingham City Council is the elected legislative body that sets local laws, policies, and budgets for the city of Bellingham, Washington.
- 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 Bellingham Herald Target entity description: The Bellingham Herald is a daily newspaper serving Bellingham and the surrounding Whatcom County area in Washington state.
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A.
Bellingham, Washington
Bellingham, Washington is a coastal city in the northwestern United States known as a gateway to the San Juan Islands and Alaska, with a busy port, outdoor recreation, and a vibrant college-town atmosphere.
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B.
City of Bellingham
The City of Bellingham is a municipal government in Washington State that oversees local services, planning, and community development for the city of Bellingham.
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C.
Bellingham
Bellingham is a small village in Northumberland, England, known as a gateway to the North Tyne valley and the surrounding Northumberland National Park.
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D.
Bellingham
Bellingham is a residential district in southeast London known for its 20th-century housing estates and local community amenities.
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E.
Bellingham City Council
Bellingham City Council is the elected legislative body that sets local laws, policies, and budgets for the city of Bellingham, Washington.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
daily newspaper
ⓘ
newspaper ⓘ |
| areaServed |
Whatcom County, Washington
ⓘ
linked to:
Whatcom County
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| cityServed | Bellingham, Washington ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| coverage |
business
ⓘ
community events ⓘ local news ⓘ regional news ⓘ sports ⓘ |
| format |
online
ⓘ
print ⓘ |
| genre | news media ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.bellinghamherald.com ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Bellingham, Washington ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Pacific Time Zone ⓘ |
| medium | newspaper ⓘ |
| owner |
The McClatchy Company
ⓘ
linked to:
McClatchy Company
|
| publicationFrequency | daily ⓘ |
| publisher |
The McClatchy Company
ⓘ
linked to:
McClatchy Company
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| serves |
Bellingham metropolitan area
ⓘ
Whatcom County communities ⓘ |
| state | Washington ⓘ |
| subjectOf | local journalism in Whatcom County ⓘ |
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: The Bellingham Herald Description of subject: The Bellingham Herald is a daily newspaper serving Bellingham and the surrounding Whatcom County area in Washington state.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.