San Francisco Examiner
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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.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| San Francisco Examiner canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1657687 — 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: San Francisco Examiner Context triple: [William Randolph Hearst, owned, San Francisco Examiner]
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A.
Los Angeles Times
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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B.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is a long-running Seattle-based newspaper known for its investigative reporting and coverage of Pacific Northwest news and politics.
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C.
The Washington Times-Herald
The Washington Times-Herald was a Washington, D.C. daily newspaper known for its conservative editorial stance and coverage of national politics before its eventual merger into The Washington Post.
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D.
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.
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E.
New York World
New York World was a prominent late-19th- and early-20th-century American newspaper known for pioneering mass-circulation journalism and sensational reporting.
- 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: San Francisco Examiner Target entity description: 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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A.
Los Angeles Times
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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B.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is a long-running Seattle-based newspaper known for its investigative reporting and coverage of Pacific Northwest news and politics.
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C.
The Washington Times-Herald
The Washington Times-Herald was a Washington, D.C. daily newspaper known for its conservative editorial stance and coverage of national politics before its eventual merger into The Washington Post.
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D.
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.
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E.
New York World
New York World was a prominent late-19th- and early-20th-century American newspaper known for pioneering mass-circulation journalism and sensational reporting.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
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: San Francisco Examiner Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
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