Santa Maria Times
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The Santa Maria Times is a local newspaper that provides news coverage and information for the community of Santa Maria, California, and the surrounding area.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Santa Maria Times canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9660183 — 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: Santa Maria Times Context triple: [Santa Maria, California, servedByNewspaper, Santa Maria Times]
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A.
San Francisco Examiner
The San Francisco Examiner is a long-running San Francisco daily newspaper historically known as the flagship publication that launched William Randolph Hearst’s media empire.
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B.
Honolulu Record
Honolulu Record was a mid-20th-century progressive newspaper in Hawaii known for its labor-oriented and leftist political coverage.
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C.
San Francisco Chronicle
The San Francisco Chronicle is a major daily newspaper based in San Francisco, California, known for its coverage of Bay Area news, politics, and culture.
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D.
The New York Packet
The New York Packet was an 18th-century New York City newspaper known for printing essays from The Federalist Papers during the debate over ratifying the U.S. Constitution.
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E.
Los Angeles Examiner
The Los Angeles Examiner was a major Los Angeles daily newspaper that played a prominent role in early 20th-century American journalism as part of William Randolph Hearst’s media empire.
- 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: Santa Maria Times Target entity description: The Santa Maria Times is a local newspaper that provides news coverage and information for the community of Santa Maria, California, and the surrounding area.
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A.
San Francisco Examiner
The San Francisco Examiner is a long-running San Francisco daily newspaper historically known as the flagship publication that launched William Randolph Hearst’s media empire.
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B.
Honolulu Record
Honolulu Record was a mid-20th-century progressive newspaper in Hawaii known for its labor-oriented and leftist political coverage.
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C.
San Francisco Chronicle
The San Francisco Chronicle is a major daily newspaper based in San Francisco, California, known for its coverage of Bay Area news, politics, and culture.
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D.
The New York Packet
The New York Packet was an 18th-century New York City newspaper known for printing essays from The Federalist Papers during the debate over ratifying the U.S. Constitution.
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E.
Los Angeles Examiner
The Los Angeles Examiner was a major Los Angeles daily newspaper that played a prominent role in early 20th-century American journalism as part of William Randolph Hearst’s media empire.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
daily newspaper
ⓘ
local newspaper ⓘ newspaper ⓘ |
| cityServed | Santa Maria, California ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| coverageArea |
Northern Santa Barbara County
ⓘ
Santa Maria Valley ⓘ parts of San Luis Obispo County ⓘ |
| distributionFormat |
digital access
ⓘ
home delivery ⓘ newsstand sales ⓘ |
| focus |
community journalism
ⓘ
hyperlocal coverage ⓘ |
| format | broadsheet ⓘ |
| hasSection |
business section
ⓘ
classifieds ⓘ local news section ⓘ obituaries section ⓘ opinion section ⓘ sports section ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://santamariatimes.com ⓘ |
| industry |
news media
ⓘ
newspaper publishing ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| location | Santa Maria, California ⓘ |
| mediaType |
online
ⓘ
print ⓘ |
| name | Santa Maria Times ⓘ |
| provides |
community information
ⓘ
local event listings ⓘ public notices ⓘ |
| publisherType | commercial publisher ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Central Coast of California
ⓘ
Santa Barbara County, California ⓘ
linked to:
Santa Barbara County
|
| state |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
|
| subjectArea |
business news
ⓘ
community news ⓘ entertainment news ⓘ local news ⓘ obituaries ⓘ opinion ⓘ sports news ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
communities in Northern Santa Barbara County
ⓘ
residents of Santa Maria, California ⓘ |
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: Santa Maria Times Description of subject: The Santa Maria Times is a local newspaper that provides news coverage and information for the community of Santa Maria, California, and the surrounding area.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.