The Baltimore Sun
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The Baltimore Sun is a major daily newspaper based in Baltimore, Maryland, known for its coverage of local, regional, and national news.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Baltimore Sun canonical | 10 |
| Baltimore Evening Sun | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3521518 — 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: The Baltimore Sun Context triple: [Tribune Company, owned, The Baltimore Sun]
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A.
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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B.
The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe is a major American daily newspaper based in Boston, renowned for its in-depth local and national reporting, including extensive coverage of the Boston Red Sox and New England sports.
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C.
The Boston Herald
The Boston Herald is a long-running Boston-based daily newspaper known for its coverage of local news, politics, and sports.
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D.
Washington Post
The Washington Post is a major American newspaper renowned for its investigative journalism, particularly its pivotal reporting on the Watergate scandal that led to President Nixon’s resignation.
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E.
Baltimore Patriot and Evening Advertiser
The Baltimore Patriot and Evening Advertiser was an early 19th-century Baltimore newspaper best known for printing Francis Scott Key’s poem that became the lyrics to the United States national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner."
- 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: The Baltimore Sun Target entity description: The Baltimore Sun is a major daily newspaper based in Baltimore, Maryland, known for its coverage of local, regional, and national news.
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A.
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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B.
The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe is a major American daily newspaper based in Boston, renowned for its in-depth local and national reporting, including extensive coverage of the Boston Red Sox and New England sports.
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C.
The Boston Herald
The Boston Herald is a long-running Boston-based daily newspaper known for its coverage of local news, politics, and sports.
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D.
Washington Post
The Washington Post is a major American newspaper renowned for its investigative journalism, particularly its pivotal reporting on the Watergate scandal that led to President Nixon’s resignation.
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E.
Baltimore Patriot and Evening Advertiser
The Baltimore Patriot and Evening Advertiser was an early 19th-century Baltimore newspaper best known for printing Francis Scott Key’s poem that became the lyrics to the United States national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
daily newspaper
ⓘ
newspaper ⓘ print media outlet ⓘ |
| city | Baltimore ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| covers |
arts and entertainment
ⓘ
business ⓘ international news ⓘ local news ⓘ national news ⓘ opinion and editorials ⓘ politics ⓘ regional news ⓘ sports ⓘ |
| distributionArea |
Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area
ⓘ
surface form:
Baltimore metropolitan area
Maryland ⓘ
surface form:
state of Maryland
|
| foundedBy |
A. S. Abell
ⓘ
surface form:
Arunah Shepherdson Abell
|
| genre | journalism ⓘ |
| hasDigitalSubscription | yes ⓘ |
| hasEditorialStance | centrist to liberal-leaning ⓘ |
| hasFormat |
online edition
ⓘ
print edition ⓘ |
| hasOnlineArchive | yes ⓘ |
| hasPaywall | yes ⓘ |
| hasSection |
business
ⓘ
features ⓘ news ⓘ obituaries ⓘ opinion ⓘ sports ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Baltimore, Maryland
|
| inception | 1837 ⓘ |
| ISSN | 1930-8965 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mediaType | broadsheet ⓘ |
| notableFor |
coverage of Baltimore city government
ⓘ
coverage of Maryland politics ⓘ investigative reporting ⓘ |
| originalPublicationFrequency | daily ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Alden Global Capital ⓘ |
| partOf | American newspaper industry ⓘ |
| printCirculationType | paid circulation ⓘ |
| publisherType | commercial newspaper publisher ⓘ |
| state | Maryland ⓘ |
| subjectOf | Pulitzer Prize-winning journalism ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
residents of Baltimore
ⓘ
residents of Maryland ⓘ |
| website | https://www.baltimoresun.com ⓘ |
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: The Baltimore Sun Description of subject: The Baltimore Sun is a major daily newspaper based in Baltimore, Maryland, known for its coverage of local, regional, and national news.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Baltimore Evening Sun