Los Angeles Examiner
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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.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Los Angeles Examiner canonical | 1 |
| Los Angeles Herald Examiner | 1 |
| Los Angeles Herald-Express | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1657688 — 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: Los Angeles Examiner Context triple: [William Randolph Hearst, owned, Los Angeles 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.
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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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.
The Dallas Morning News
The Dallas Morning News is a major daily newspaper based in Dallas, Texas, known for its coverage of regional, national, and international news.
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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: Los Angeles Examiner Target entity description: 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.
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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.
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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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.
The Dallas Morning News
The Dallas Morning News is a major daily newspaper based in Dallas, Texas, known for its coverage of regional, national, and international news.
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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 (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
daily newspaper
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defunct newspaper ⓘ newspaper ⓘ |
| city | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| competedWith |
Los Angeles Herald-Express
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Los Angeles Times ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| covered |
entertainment industry in Los Angeles
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international news ⓘ local Los Angeles news ⓘ national news ⓘ |
| dissolved | 1962 ⓘ |
| distributionArea |
Greater Los Angeles Area
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surface form:
Greater Los Angeles
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| endTime | 1962 ⓘ |
| format | broadsheet ⓘ |
| foundedBy | William Randolph Hearst ⓘ |
| hasGenre |
general-interest newspaper
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metropolitan daily ⓘ |
| hasNotableEditor | James Howard Barry (early editor) ⓘ |
| hasRole | major competitor in Los Angeles newspaper market ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Downtown Los Angeles ⓘ |
| inception | early 20th century ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| location |
Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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surface form:
Los Angeles, California
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| mediaType |
daily newspaper
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print ⓘ |
| mergedInto |
Los Angeles Examiner
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Los Angeles Herald-Express
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| notableFor |
aggressive crime reporting
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influence on early 20th-century American journalism ⓘ sensationalist journalism ⓘ yellow journalism style in early years ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
Hearst Communications
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Hearst Communications ⓘ
surface form:
Hearst Corporation
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| partOf |
Hearst Communications
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surface form:
Hearst newspaper chain
William Randolph Hearst’s media empire ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment |
generally conservative
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pro-business ⓘ |
| publisher | William Randolph Hearst ⓘ |
| startTime | 1903 ⓘ |
| subjectOf | studies of Hearst press influence ⓘ |
| successor |
Los Angeles Examiner
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Los Angeles Herald Examiner
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| timePeriod |
early 20th century
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mid-20th century ⓘ |
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 Examiner Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Los Angeles Herald-Express
this entity surface form:
Los Angeles Herald Examiner