New York American
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New York American was a prominent early 20th-century New York City daily newspaper known for its sensationalist, Hearst-owned journalism.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| New York American canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10236101 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: New York American Context triple: [Irvin S. Cobb, employer, New York American]
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A.
New York-New York
New York-New York is a New York City–themed hotel and casino located on the Las Vegas Strip, known for its replica skyline and entertainment offerings.
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B.
The Continental (New York)
The Continental (New York) is a luxurious, clandestine hotel in the John Wick universe that serves as neutral ground and a sanctuary for assassins and underworld figures.
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C.
Old New York
Old New York is a collection of four novellas by Edith Wharton that portray the manners, morals, and social constraints of New York’s upper class in the late 19th century.
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D.
Yankee
Yankee is a nickname commonly associated with people from the United States, especially those from the northern states, and is also used as a moniker in various military and sports contexts.
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E.
NYM
NYM is the standard abbreviation used for the New York Mets, a Major League Baseball team based in New York City.
- 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 American Target entity description: New York American was a prominent early 20th-century New York City daily newspaper known for its sensationalist, Hearst-owned journalism.
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A.
New York-New York
New York-New York is a New York City–themed hotel and casino located on the Las Vegas Strip, known for its replica skyline and entertainment offerings.
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B.
The Continental (New York)
The Continental (New York) is a luxurious, clandestine hotel in the John Wick universe that serves as neutral ground and a sanctuary for assassins and underworld figures.
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C.
Old New York
Old New York is a collection of four novellas by Edith Wharton that portray the manners, morals, and social constraints of New York’s upper class in the late 19th century.
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D.
Yankee
Yankee is a nickname commonly associated with people from the United States, especially those from the northern states, and is also used as a moniker in various military and sports contexts.
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E.
NYM
NYM is the standard abbreviation used for the New York Mets, a Major League Baseball team based in New York City.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
daily newspaper
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defunct newspaper ⓘ newspaper ⓘ |
| ceasedPublication | 1937 ⓘ |
| circulationArea | New York metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| city | New York City ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| dateOfMerger | 1937 ⓘ |
| format | broadsheet ⓘ |
| foundedBy | William Randolph Hearst NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
sensationalist journalism
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yellow journalism ⓘ |
| hasCompetitor |
New York Herald
NERFINISHED
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New York Tribune NERFINISHED ⓘ New York World NERFINISHED ⓘ The New York Times NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEdition | Sunday American NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOwner | Hearst Communications NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPublisher | Hearst Newspapers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inception | 1902 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity | New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| locationOfHeadquarters | Manhattan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
celebrity and society news
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crime reporting ⓘ news ⓘ politics ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| mergedInto | New York Journal-American NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
aggressive circulation wars
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sensationalist coverage ⓘ tabloid-style headlines ⓘ |
| operatedInTimePeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Hearst Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| owner | William Randolph Hearst NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Hearst newspaper chain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | sensationalist populism ⓘ |
| publicationFrequency | daily ⓘ |
| publisher | William Randolph Hearst 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 American Description of subject: New York American was a prominent early 20th-century New York City daily newspaper known for its sensationalist, Hearst-owned journalism.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.