The Times
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The Times is a long-established and influential British daily newspaper known for its national and international news coverage, commentary, and analysis.
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Times canonical | 60 |
| The Times (London) | 4 |
| The Times of London | 4 |
| The Times newspaper | 2 |
| The Times Online | 1 |
| The Times sports section | 1 |
| Times | 1 |
| Times Newspapers Ltd | 1 |
| renamed The Daily Universal Register to The Times in 1788 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T527259 — 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 Times Context triple: [Rupert Murdoch, ownerOf, The Times]
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A.
The Sunday Times
The Sunday Times is a prominent British Sunday newspaper known for its in-depth journalism, investigative reporting, and influential commentary.
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B.
Evening Standard
The Evening Standard is a long-running London-based daily newspaper known for its coverage of city news, politics, business, and culture.
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C.
The New York Times
The New York Times is a leading American newspaper renowned for its influential journalism, extensive global coverage, and role as a newspaper of record.
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D.
The Independent
The Independent is a British online newspaper and former print daily known for its liberal editorial stance and in-depth coverage of UK and international news, politics, and culture.
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E.
Daily Express
The Daily Express is a long-running British national tabloid newspaper known for its conservative stance, sensationalist headlines, and significant influence on UK popular and political discourse.
- 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 Times Target entity description: The Times is a long-established and influential British daily newspaper known for its national and international news coverage, commentary, and analysis.
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A.
The Sunday Times
The Sunday Times is a prominent British Sunday newspaper known for its in-depth journalism, investigative reporting, and influential commentary.
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B.
Evening Standard
The Evening Standard is a long-running London-based daily newspaper known for its coverage of city news, politics, business, and culture.
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C.
The New York Times
The New York Times is a leading American newspaper renowned for its influential journalism, extensive global coverage, and role as a newspaper of record.
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D.
The Independent
The Independent is a British online newspaper and former print daily known for its liberal editorial stance and in-depth coverage of UK and international news, politics, and culture.
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E.
Daily Express
The Daily Express is a long-running British national tabloid newspaper known for its conservative stance, sensationalist headlines, and significant influence on UK popular and political discourse.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
broadsheet newspaper
ⓘ
daily newspaper ⓘ national newspaper ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| coverageArea |
international news
ⓘ
national news ⓘ |
| dateOfNameChange | 1788 ⓘ |
| dayOfPublication | Monday to Saturday ⓘ |
| format | broadsheet (print) ⓘ |
| foundedBy | John Walter I ⓘ |
| frequency | daily ⓘ |
| hasColumn |
leading article
ⓘ
letters to the editor ⓘ |
| hasEdition | The Sunday Times ⓘ |
| hasOnlineEdition |
The Times
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
The Times Online
|
| hasSection |
business
ⓘ
culture ⓘ features ⓘ news ⓘ opinion ⓘ sport ⓘ |
| hasSupplement |
The Game
ⓘ
Times2 ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
London, England
ⓘ
surface form:
London
|
| inception | 1785 ⓘ |
| introducedPaywall | 2010 ⓘ |
| issn | 0140-0460 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| locationFounded |
London, England
ⓘ
surface form:
London
|
| medium |
online
ⓘ
print ⓘ |
| nameChange | The Times self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor |
influential editorials
ⓘ
international affairs coverage ⓘ political commentary ⓘ |
| officeLocation | The News Building, London Bridge ⓘ |
| originalName | The Daily Universal Register ⓘ |
| owner |
News International
ⓘ
surface form:
News UK
|
| parentCompany |
News Corporation
ⓘ
surface form:
News Corp
|
| politicalAlignment | centre-right ⓘ |
| publisher | Times Newspapers Ltd ⓘ |
| reputation | newspaper of record (UK) ⓘ |
| sisterNewspaper | The Sunday Times ⓘ |
| targetAudience | general readership ⓘ |
| usesWritingSystem | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
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 Times Description of subject: The Times is a long-established and influential British daily newspaper known for its national and international news coverage, commentary, and analysis.
Referenced by (75)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
renamed The Daily Universal Register to The Times in 1788
this entity surface form:
The Times of London
this entity surface form:
The Times of London
this entity surface form:
The Times of London
this entity surface form:
The Times sports section
this entity surface form:
Times