The New York Times Company
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The New York Times Company is a major American media organization best known as the parent company and publisher of the influential daily newspaper The New York Times, along with various digital news and media properties.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The New York Times Company canonical | 56 |
| New York Times Company | 3 |
| NYTimes.com website | 1 |
| The New York Times Sales, Inc. | 1 |
| The New York Times Syndicate | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T234620 — 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: The New York Times Company Context triple: [The New York Times, owner, The New York Times Company]
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A.
News Corporation
News Corporation was a global media conglomerate founded and led by Rupert Murdoch, encompassing major newspaper, television, film, and publishing assets before its 2013 split into separate publishing and entertainment companies.
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B.
Time Inc.
Time Inc. was a major American media company best known for publishing influential magazines such as Time, Life, Sports Illustrated, and Fortune.
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C.
The New York Times
The New York Times is a leading American newspaper renowned for its influential journalism, extensive global coverage, and role as a newspaper of record.
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D.
Allen Media Group
Allen Media Group is a media conglomerate founded by Byron Allen that owns and operates a wide portfolio of television networks, film and TV production companies, and digital media properties.
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E.
Time Warner
Time Warner was a major American media and entertainment conglomerate known for owning prominent film, television, and publishing assets such as Warner Bros., HBO, and CNN.
- 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 New York Times Company Target entity description: The New York Times Company is a major American media organization best known as the parent company and publisher of the influential daily newspaper The New York Times, along with various digital news and media properties.
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A.
News Corporation
News Corporation was a global media conglomerate founded and led by Rupert Murdoch, encompassing major newspaper, television, film, and publishing assets before its 2013 split into separate publishing and entertainment companies.
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B.
Time Inc.
Time Inc. was a major American media company best known for publishing influential magazines such as Time, Life, Sports Illustrated, and Fortune.
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C.
The New York Times
The New York Times is a leading American newspaper renowned for its influential journalism, extensive global coverage, and role as a newspaper of record.
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D.
Allen Media Group
Allen Media Group is a media conglomerate founded by Byron Allen that owns and operates a wide portfolio of television networks, film and TV production companies, and digital media properties.
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E.
Time Warner
Time Warner was a major American media and entertainment conglomerate known for owning prominent film, television, and publishing assets such as Warner Bros., HBO, and CNN.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
media company
ⓘ
public company ⓘ publishing company ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| founded | The New York Times ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
George Jones
ⓘ
Henry Jarvis Raymond ⓘ |
| hasBrand |
NYT Cooking
ⓘ
surface form:
New York Times Cooking
The New York Times ⓘ
surface form:
New York Times Games
The Athletic ⓘ The New York Times ⓘ Wirecutter ⓘ |
| hasFounder |
George Jones
ⓘ
Henry Jarvis Raymond ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasService |
advertising services
ⓘ
digital subscriptions ⓘ print subscriptions ⓘ |
| hasSubsidiary |
The Athletic Media Company
ⓘ
The New York Times Company self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
The New York Times Sales, Inc.
The New York Times Company self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
The New York Times Syndicate
Wirecutter, Inc. ⓘ |
| headquartersBuilding |
New York Times Building
ⓘ
surface form:
The New York Times Building
|
| headquartersLocation |
Manhattan
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ |
| industry |
digital media
ⓘ
mass media ⓘ newspaper publishing ⓘ |
| notableWork |
The New York Times Company
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
NYTimes.com website
The New York Times ⓘ
surface form:
The New York Times newspaper
|
| operatesWebsite |
cooking.nytimes.com
ⓘ
games.nytimes.com ⓘ nytimes.com ⓘ theathletic.com ⓘ Wirecutter ⓘ
surface form:
wirecutter.com
|
| owns |
The New York Times
ⓘ
surface form:
NYTimes.com
NYT Cooking ⓘ
surface form:
New York Times Cooking
The New York Times ⓘ
surface form:
New York Times Games
The Athletic ⓘ The New York Times ⓘ The New York Times ⓘ
surface form:
The New York Times International Edition
Wirecutter ⓘ |
| primaryProduct |
daily newspaper
ⓘ
digital news ⓘ mobile applications ⓘ |
| publishes |
The New York Times
ⓘ
The New York Times ⓘ
surface form:
The New York Times International Edition
|
| stockExchange | New York Stock Exchange ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol |
The New York Times
ⓘ
surface form:
NYT
|
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 New York Times Company Description of subject: The New York Times Company is a major American media organization best known as the parent company and publisher of the influential daily newspaper The New York Times, along with various digital news and media properties.
Referenced by (62)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The New York Times Sales, Inc.
this entity surface form:
The New York Times Syndicate
this entity surface form:
NYTimes.com website
this entity surface form:
New York Times Company
subject surface form:
The Boston Globe
Arthur Hays Sulzberger was publisher of The New York Times
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affiliation
→
The New York Times Company
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subject surface form:
Arthur Hays Sulzberger
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger was publisher of The New York Times
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employer
→
The New York Times Company
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subject surface form:
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
this entity surface form:
New York Times Company