Los Angeles Times
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The Los Angeles Times is a major American daily newspaper based in Southern California, known for its extensive coverage of national and international news and its influential role in West Coast journalism.
All labels observed (9)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T445679 — 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: Los Angeles Times Context triple: [Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography, sponsor, Los Angeles Times]
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A.
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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B.
The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe is a major American daily newspaper based in Boston, renowned for its in-depth local and national reporting, including extensive coverage of the Boston Red Sox and New England sports.
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C.
Washington Post
The Washington Post is a major American newspaper renowned for its investigative journalism, particularly its pivotal reporting on the Watergate scandal that led to President Nixon’s resignation.
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D.
Chicago Tribune
The Chicago Tribune is a major American daily newspaper based in Chicago, known for its influential coverage of national and local news since the 19th century.
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E.
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.
- 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: Los Angeles Times Target entity description: The Los Angeles Times is a major American daily newspaper based in Southern California, known for its extensive coverage of national and international news and its influential role in West Coast journalism.
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A.
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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B.
The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe is a major American daily newspaper based in Boston, renowned for its in-depth local and national reporting, including extensive coverage of the Boston Red Sox and New England sports.
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C.
Washington Post
The Washington Post is a major American newspaper renowned for its investigative journalism, particularly its pivotal reporting on the Watergate scandal that led to President Nixon’s resignation.
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D.
Chicago Tribune
The Chicago Tribune is a major American daily newspaper based in Chicago, known for its influential coverage of national and local news since the 19th century.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
daily newspaper
ⓘ
media organization ⓘ newspaper ⓘ |
| acquiredByCurrentOwner | 2018 ⓘ |
| awards | Pulitzer Prize ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| coverage |
business
ⓘ
entertainment ⓘ international news ⓘ investigative journalism ⓘ local news ⓘ national news ⓘ opinion ⓘ politics ⓘ sports ⓘ |
| distributionArea |
Southern California
ⓘ
western United States ⓘ
surface form:
Western United States
|
| format | broadsheet ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Harrison Gray Otis
ⓘ
Nathan Cole Jr. ⓘ Thomas Gardiner ⓘ |
| hasEdition |
digital edition
ⓘ
print edition ⓘ |
| hasSection |
Business
ⓘ
Calendar (entertainment section) ⓘ California, United States ⓘ
surface form:
California
Metro ⓘ Opinion ⓘ Sports ⓘ World & Nation ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | El Segundo, California ⓘ |
| inception | 1881 ⓘ |
| influences | public opinion in California ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| location | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| mediaType |
online
ⓘ
print ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Pulitzer Prize–winning reporting
ⓘ
West Coast journalism ⓘ |
| originalName |
Los Angeles Times
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Los Angeles Daily Times
|
| owner | Patrick Soon-Shiong ⓘ |
| partOf | American newspaper industry ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | generally liberal editorial stance ⓘ |
| previousHeadquartersLocation | Downtown Los Angeles ⓘ |
| publisher |
Los Angeles Times
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Los Angeles Times Communications LLC
|
| region | Southern California ⓘ |
| state |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
|
| subjectOf | Los Angeles Times Festival of Books ⓘ |
| website |
Los Angeles Times
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
https://www.latimes.com
|
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: Los Angeles Times Description of subject: The Los Angeles Times is a major American daily newspaper based in Southern California, known for its extensive coverage of national and international news and its influential role in West Coast journalism.
Referenced by (55)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Los Angeles Times
this entity surface form:
Los Angeles Daily Times
this entity surface form:
Los Angeles Times Communications LLC
this entity surface form:
https://www.latimes.com
subject surface form:
Cecil Smith (writer)
this entity surface form:
Los Angeles Times editorial board
this entity surface form:
The Los Angeles Times
subject surface form:
Los Angeles Times offices (El Segundo)
subject surface form:
Los Angeles Times offices (El Segundo)
this entity surface form:
Los Angeles Times Communications LLC
subject surface form:
Los Angeles Times offices (El Segundo)
this entity surface form:
Los Angeles Times newspaper
subject surface form:
Los Angeles Times offices (El Segundo)
this entity surface form:
Los Angeles Times corporate infrastructure
subject surface form:
Los Angeles Times offices (El Segundo)
this entity surface form:
Los Angeles Times editorial staff
this entity surface form:
Los Angeles Times Communications LLC
this entity surface form:
The Los Angeles Times
this entity surface form:
The Los Angeles Times