Arkansas Gazette
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The Arkansas Gazette was a prominent and historically significant daily newspaper based in Little Rock, Arkansas, known as one of the oldest newspapers west of the Mississippi River.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Arkansas Gazette canonical | 3 |
| Arkansas Democrat-Gazette | 1 |
| Arkansas Gazette Company | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13003197 — 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: Arkansas Gazette Context triple: [Charles Portis, employer, Arkansas Gazette]
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A.
Missouri Staats-Zeitung
The Missouri Staats-Zeitung was a German-language newspaper published in Missouri that served the local German-American community in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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B.
Paris Herald
The Paris Herald was the European edition of the New York Herald Tribune, an English-language newspaper published in Paris for an international readership.
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C.
Arkansas State Press
Arkansas State Press was an influential African American newspaper based in Little Rock, Arkansas, known for its civil rights advocacy and coverage of racial injustices in the mid-20th century.
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D.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is a major daily newspaper based in St. Louis, Missouri, long known for its influential journalism and progressive editorial stance.
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E.
St. Louis Times
The St. Louis Times was a 19th-century St. Louis newspaper associated with prominent publisher Stilson Hutchins before he went on to found The Washington Post.
- 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: Arkansas Gazette Target entity description: The Arkansas Gazette was a prominent and historically significant daily newspaper based in Little Rock, Arkansas, known as one of the oldest newspapers west of the Mississippi River.
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A.
Missouri Staats-Zeitung
The Missouri Staats-Zeitung was a German-language newspaper published in Missouri that served the local German-American community in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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B.
Paris Herald
The Paris Herald was the European edition of the New York Herald Tribune, an English-language newspaper published in Paris for an international readership.
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C.
Arkansas State Press
Arkansas State Press was an influential African American newspaper based in Little Rock, Arkansas, known for its civil rights advocacy and coverage of racial injustices in the mid-20th century.
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D.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is a major daily newspaper based in St. Louis, Missouri, long known for its influential journalism and progressive editorial stance.
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E.
St. Louis Times
The St. Louis Times was a 19th-century St. Louis newspaper associated with prominent publisher Stilson Hutchins before he went on to found The Washington Post.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
daily newspaper
ⓘ
newspaper ⓘ |
| acquiredBy |
Gannett Company
ⓘ
linked to:
Gannett
|
| acquisitionDate | 1986 ⓘ |
| archivesHeldAt |
Arkansas State Archives
ⓘ
University of Arkansas ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Pulitzer Prize for Public Service ⓘ |
| awardReceivedFor | coverage of the 1957 Little Rock school integration crisis ⓘ |
| ceasedPublication | 1991 ⓘ |
| competitor | Arkansas Democrat ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| describedAs | one of the oldest newspapers west of the Mississippi River ⓘ |
| dissolutionDate | 1991 ⓘ |
| distributionArea | Arkansas ⓘ |
| foundedBy | William E. Woodruff ⓘ |
| foundedInTerritory | Arkansas Territory ⓘ |
| frequency | daily ⓘ |
| hasDigitalArchives | yes ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Little Rock, Arkansas ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
19th century American press
ⓘ
20th century American press ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | oldest continuously published newspaper in Arkansas until its closure ⓘ |
| inception | 1819 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| location | Little Rock, Arkansas ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| newspaperWarWith | Arkansas Democrat ⓘ |
| notableEditor |
Carrick Heiskell
ⓘ
John Netherland Heiskell ⓘ |
| notableFor |
editorial support for school desegregation in 1957
ⓘ
longstanding influence on Arkansas politics and public opinion ⓘ |
| originalName | Arkansas Gazette ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
Gannett Company
ⓘ
linked to:
Gannett
Heiskell family ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | generally moderate to liberal editorial stance in the 20th century ⓘ |
| printedIn | Little Rock, Arkansas ⓘ |
| publisher |
Arkansas Gazette Company
ⓘ
linked to:
Arkansas Gazette
|
| region |
American South
ⓘ
linked to:
Southern United States
|
| regionServed |
Little Rock metropolitan area
ⓘ
state of Arkansas ⓘ |
| roleInCivilRightsEra | supported federal enforcement of desegregation orders ⓘ |
| significantEvent |
Arkansas statehood coverage
ⓘ
Civil War era publication in Arkansas ⓘ coverage of the Little Rock Central High School desegregation crisis ⓘ |
| startPublicationYear | 1819 ⓘ |
| state | Arkansas ⓘ |
| successor |
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
ⓘ
linked to:
Arkansas Gazette
|
| typeOfBusiness | privately owned newspaper company ⓘ |
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: Arkansas Gazette Description of subject: The Arkansas Gazette was a prominent and historically significant daily newspaper based in Little Rock, Arkansas, known as one of the oldest newspapers west of the Mississippi River.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Arkansas Gazette
linked to: Arkansas Gazette