Hearst Communications
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Hearst Communications is a major American mass media and business information conglomerate with interests in television, cable networks, magazines, newspapers, and digital media.
All labels observed (25)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T294803 — 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: Hearst Communications Context triple: [ESPN, owner, Hearst Communications]
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A.
Allen Media Group
Allen Media Group is a media conglomerate founded by Byron Allen that owns and operates a wide portfolio of television networks, film and TV production companies, and digital media properties.
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B.
The New York Times Company
The New York Times Company is a major American media organization best known as the parent company and publisher of the influential daily newspaper The New York Times, along with various digital news and media properties.
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C.
News Corporation
News Corporation was a global media conglomerate founded and led by Rupert Murdoch, encompassing major newspaper, television, film, and publishing assets before its 2013 split into separate publishing and entertainment companies.
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D.
Time Inc.
Time Inc. was a major American media company best known for publishing influential magazines such as Time, Life, Sports Illustrated, and Fortune.
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E.
Atlantic Media
Atlantic Media is an American media company best known for owning and operating influential publications such as The Atlantic.
- 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: Hearst Communications Target entity description: Hearst Communications is a major American mass media and business information conglomerate with interests in television, cable networks, magazines, newspapers, and digital media.
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A.
Allen Media Group
Allen Media Group is a media conglomerate founded by Byron Allen that owns and operates a wide portfolio of television networks, film and TV production companies, and digital media properties.
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B.
The New York Times Company
The New York Times Company is a major American media organization best known as the parent company and publisher of the influential daily newspaper The New York Times, along with various digital news and media properties.
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C.
News Corporation
News Corporation was a global media conglomerate founded and led by Rupert Murdoch, encompassing major newspaper, television, film, and publishing assets before its 2013 split into separate publishing and entertainment companies.
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D.
Time Inc.
Time Inc. was a major American media company best known for publishing influential magazines such as Time, Life, Sports Illustrated, and Fortune.
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E.
Atlantic Media
Atlantic Media is an American media company best known for owning and operating influential publications such as The Atlantic.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (55)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
business information company
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mass media conglomerate ⓘ privately held company ⓘ |
| coOwnerOf |
A&E Network
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surface form:
A&E Networks
ESPN ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| foundedBy | William Randolph Hearst ⓘ |
| foundedIn | San Francisco ⓘ |
| hasBusinessDivision |
Hearst Autos
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Hearst Communications self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Hearst Digital Media
Hearst Communications self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Hearst Entertainment & Syndication
Hearst Communications self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Hearst Finance
Hearst Communications self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Hearst Health
Hearst Transportation ⓘ |
| hasSubsidiary |
ESPN
ⓘ
surface form:
ESPN Inc.
Hearst Communications self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Hearst Business Media
Hearst Communications self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Hearst Magazines
Hearst Communications self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Hearst Newspapers
Hearst Communications self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Hearst Television
|
| headquartersBuilding |
Hearst Tower (New York City)
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surface form:
Hearst Tower
|
| headquartersLocation |
Manhattan
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ |
| inception | 1887 ⓘ |
| industry |
broadcasting
ⓘ
business information ⓘ cable television ⓘ digital media ⓘ mass media ⓘ publishing ⓘ |
| legalForm | corporation ⓘ |
| owns |
A&E Network
ⓘ
surface form:
A&E Networks
Times Union (newspaper) ⓘ
surface form:
Albany Times Union
Car and Driver ⓘ Cosmopolitan magazine ⓘ
surface form:
Cosmopolitan (magazine)
Elle ⓘ
surface form:
Elle (U.S. edition)
Esquire magazine ⓘ
surface form:
Esquire (magazine)
Fitch Ratings ⓘ
surface form:
Fitch Group
Fitch Ratings ⓘ Good Housekeeping ⓘ Harper’s Bazaar ⓘ Hearst Communications self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Hearst Magazines
Hearst Communications self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Hearst Newspapers
Hearst Communications self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Hearst Television
Houston Chronicle ⓘ KCRA-TV ⓘ KETV ⓘ Popular Mechanics ⓘ Road & Track ⓘ San Francisco Chronicle ⓘ WBAL-TV ⓘ WCVB-TV ⓘ WESH ⓘ WLWT ⓘ WTAE-TV ⓘ |
| parentOrganization |
Hearst Communications
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Hearst Corporation
|
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: Hearst Communications Description of subject: Hearst Communications is a major American mass media and business information conglomerate with interests in television, cable networks, magazines, newspapers, and digital media.
Referenced by (139)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Times Union
subject surface form:
Times Union
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Hearst Corporation
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Hearst Corporation
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Hearst
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Hearst newspapers
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Hearst magazines
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Hearst broadcasting interests
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Hearst
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Hearst Corporation
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Hearst Magazines
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Hearst Corporation
this entity surface form:
Hearst Magazines
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Hearst Magazines
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Hearst Magazines
this entity surface form:
Hearst Corporation
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Hearst Corporation
this entity surface form:
Hearst Magazines portfolio
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Hearst Corporation
this entity surface form:
Hearst Corporation
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Hearst
this entity surface form:
Hearst media empire