New York World-Telegram
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The New York World-Telegram was a prominent 20th-century New York City daily newspaper known for its influential journalism and columnists.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| New York World-Telegram canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9830393 — 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: New York World-Telegram Context triple: [Heywood Broun, employer, New York World-Telegram]
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A.
New York Herald Tribune
The New York Herald Tribune was a prominent American newspaper based in New York City, known for its influential journalism and distinguished columnists in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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B.
New York Morning Telegraph
The New York Morning Telegraph was a prominent New York City newspaper known for its coverage of sports, entertainment, and gambling in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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C.
New York World Journal Tribune
The New York World Journal Tribune was a short-lived New York City daily newspaper formed in the 1960s through the consolidation of several major papers, and is often remembered as one of the last attempts to sustain a large-scale afternoon newspaper in the city.
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D.
New York Evening Mail
The New York Evening Mail was an early 20th-century New York City daily newspaper known for featuring the work of cartoonist and inventor Rube Goldberg.
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E.
New York Herald
The New York Herald was a prominent 19th- and early 20th-century American daily newspaper based in New York City, known for its large circulation and influential, often sensational, journalism.
- 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: New York World-Telegram Target entity description: The New York World-Telegram was a prominent 20th-century New York City daily newspaper known for its influential journalism and columnists.
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A.
New York Herald Tribune
The New York Herald Tribune was a prominent American newspaper based in New York City, known for its influential journalism and distinguished columnists in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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B.
New York Morning Telegraph
The New York Morning Telegraph was a prominent New York City newspaper known for its coverage of sports, entertainment, and gambling in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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C.
New York World Journal Tribune
The New York World Journal Tribune was a short-lived New York City daily newspaper formed in the 1960s through the consolidation of several major papers, and is often remembered as one of the last attempts to sustain a large-scale afternoon newspaper in the city.
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D.
New York Evening Mail
The New York Evening Mail was an early 20th-century New York City daily newspaper known for featuring the work of cartoonist and inventor Rube Goldberg.
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E.
New York Herald
The New York Herald was a prominent 19th- and early 20th-century American daily newspaper based in New York City, known for its large circulation and influential, often sensational, journalism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
daily newspaper
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defunct newspaper ⓘ newspaper ⓘ |
| archivesHeldAt |
Library of Congress
NERFINISHED
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New York Public Library NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn | New York City ⓘ |
| circulationArea | New York metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| city | New York City ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| countryOfPublication |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| coveredTopic |
business
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culture ⓘ international news ⓘ local news ⓘ national news ⓘ politics ⓘ sports ⓘ |
| dissolved | 1966 ⓘ |
| distributionFormat | broadsheet ⓘ |
| endTime | 1966 ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Scripps-Howard Newspapers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | general-interest newspaper ⓘ |
| hasEdition | evening edition ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Manhattan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| location | New York City ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| mergedInto | New York World-Telegram and The Sun NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableCartoonist | Herblock GENERATED ⓘ |
| notableColumnist |
Damon Runyon
NERFINISHED
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Heywood Broun NERFINISHED ⓘ Westbrook Pegler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
influential journalism
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prominent columnists ⓘ |
| owner |
E. W. Scripps Company
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Scripps-Howard Newspapers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | generally conservative ⓘ |
| predecessor |
New York Telegram
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New York World NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationFrequency | daily ⓘ |
| publisher | Scripps-Howard Newspapers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| significantEvent |
merger with The Sun in 1950 to form New York World-Telegram and The Sun
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participation in New York City newspaper strikes ⓘ |
| startTime | 1931 ⓘ |
| state | New York ⓘ |
| subjectOf | historical studies of New York City journalism ⓘ |
| successor | New York World-Telegram and The Sun NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: New York World-Telegram Description of subject: The New York World-Telegram was a prominent 20th-century New York City daily newspaper known for its influential journalism and columnists.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.