The Plain Dealer
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The Plain Dealer is a major daily newspaper based in Cleveland, Ohio, known for its regional news coverage and investigative journalism.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Plain Dealer canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5752587 — 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 Plain Dealer Context triple: [Advance Publications, owns, The Plain Dealer]
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A.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is a major daily newspaper based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, known for its regional news coverage and Pulitzer Prize–winning journalism.
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B.
Cincinnati Gazette
The Cincinnati Gazette was a prominent 19th-century American newspaper based in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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C.
Dayton Daily News
Dayton Daily News is a long-running daily newspaper based in Dayton, Ohio, known for its regional news coverage and historical significance in American journalism.
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D.
Tribune-Review
The Tribune-Review is a regional newspaper based in Western Pennsylvania that covers local news, sports, and community issues in areas including Penn Hills.
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E.
Pittsburgh Dispatch
The Pittsburgh Dispatch was a prominent 19th-century Pittsburgh newspaper known for its influential reporting and for employing pioneering investigative journalist Nellie Bly early in her career.
- 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 Plain Dealer Target entity description: The Plain Dealer is a major daily newspaper based in Cleveland, Ohio, known for its regional news coverage and investigative journalism.
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A.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is a major daily newspaper based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, known for its regional news coverage and Pulitzer Prize–winning journalism.
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B.
Cincinnati Gazette
The Cincinnati Gazette was a prominent 19th-century American newspaper based in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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C.
Dayton Daily News
Dayton Daily News is a long-running daily newspaper based in Dayton, Ohio, known for its regional news coverage and historical significance in American journalism.
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D.
Tribune-Review
The Tribune-Review is a regional newspaper based in Western Pennsylvania that covers local news, sports, and community issues in areas including Penn Hills.
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E.
Pittsburgh Dispatch
The Pittsburgh Dispatch was a prominent 19th-century Pittsburgh newspaper known for its influential reporting and for employing pioneering investigative journalist Nellie Bly early in her career.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
daily newspaper
ⓘ
newspaper ⓘ periodical ⓘ |
| circulationType | daily ⓘ |
| city | Cleveland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| distributionArea |
Greater Cleveland
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Northeast Ohio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| format | broadsheet ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Joseph William Gray NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCompetitor |
Akron Beacon Journal
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Columbus Dispatch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEdition | Sunday edition ⓘ |
| hasOnlinePresence | Cleveland.com NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSection |
Arts & Life
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Business ⓘ Metro NERFINISHED ⓘ Opinion ⓘ Sports ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Cleveland, Ohio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inception | 1842 ⓘ |
| ISSN | 0744-9156 ⓘ |
| knownFor |
investigative journalism
ⓘ
regional news coverage ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| mediaCategory | mass media in Cleveland, Ohio ⓘ |
| mediaType |
online
ⓘ
print ⓘ |
| OCLC | 10162262 ⓘ |
| originalName | The Plain Dealer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| owner | Advance Publications NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Advance Local NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | centrist ⓘ |
| printLocation | Cleveland, Ohio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publisher | Advance Publications NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servesCommunity | Cleveland metropolitan area ⓘ |
| state | Ohio ⓘ |
| subject |
arts and entertainment
ⓘ
business ⓘ international news ⓘ local news ⓘ national news ⓘ opinion ⓘ regional news ⓘ sports ⓘ |
| website | https://www.cleveland.com/plaindealer/ ⓘ |
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 Plain Dealer Description of subject: The Plain Dealer is a major daily newspaper based in Cleveland, Ohio, known for its regional news coverage and investigative journalism.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.