Harold Ross
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Harold Ross was an American journalist and editor best known as the founding editor of the influential magazine The New Yorker.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Harold Ross canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3054617 — 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: Harold Ross Context triple: [The New Yorker, foundedBy, Harold Ross]
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A.
Floyd Dell
Floyd Dell was an American writer, critic, and prominent figure in early 20th-century literary radicalism and bohemian culture.
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B.
Herbert Bayard Swope
Herbert Bayard Swope was a prominent American journalist and editor, best known as the first recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Reporting and for his influential role in early 20th-century newspaper journalism.
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C.
Bennett Cerf
Bennett Cerf was an American publisher, humorist, and co-founder of the publishing house Random House, known for popularizing many major 20th-century authors.
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D.
Samson Raphaelson
Samson Raphaelson was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for his influential collaborations with director Ernst Lubitsch on classic Hollywood comedies.
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E.
Murray Kempton
Murray Kempton was an American journalist, columnist, and Pulitzer Prize–winning writer known for his incisive political commentary and elegant prose.
- 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: Harold Ross Target entity description: Harold Ross was an American journalist and editor best known as the founding editor of the influential magazine The New Yorker.
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A.
Floyd Dell
Floyd Dell was an American writer, critic, and prominent figure in early 20th-century literary radicalism and bohemian culture.
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B.
Herbert Bayard Swope
Herbert Bayard Swope was a prominent American journalist and editor, best known as the first recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Reporting and for his influential role in early 20th-century newspaper journalism.
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C.
Bennett Cerf
Bennett Cerf was an American publisher, humorist, and co-founder of the publishing house Random House, known for popularizing many major 20th-century authors.
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D.
Samson Raphaelson
Samson Raphaelson was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for his influential collaborations with director Ernst Lubitsch on classic Hollywood comedies.
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E.
Murray Kempton
Murray Kempton was an American journalist, columnist, and Pulitzer Prize–winning writer known for his incisive political commentary and elegant prose.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
founder
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human ⓘ journalist ⓘ magazine editor ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Algonquin Round Table ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
Aspen, Colorado, United States
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linked to:
Aspen, Colorado
|
| causeOfDeath | cancer ⓘ |
| coFounded | The New Yorker ⓘ |
| conflictParticipatedIn | World War I ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1892-11-06 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1951-12-06 ⓘ |
| edited | The New Yorker ⓘ |
| employer | The New Yorker ⓘ |
| familyName | Ross ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
journalism
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magazine publishing ⓘ |
| genre |
humor writing (as editor)
ⓘ
journalism ⓘ |
| givenName | Harold ⓘ |
| hasInfluenced | American magazine journalism ⓘ |
| knownFor | founding editor of The New Yorker ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| militaryService | United States Army ⓘ |
| name | Harold Ross ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | shaped the style and tone of The New Yorker in its early decades ⓘ |
| notableWork | The New Yorker ⓘ |
| occupation |
editor
ⓘ
journalist ⓘ magazine editor ⓘ |
| periodActive | 20th century ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Aspen, Colorado, United States
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linked to:
Aspen, Colorado
|
| placeOfDeath |
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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linked to:
Boston, Massachusetts
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| positionHeld | editor of The New Yorker ⓘ |
| residence |
New York City, New York, United States
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linked to:
New York City
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| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Jane Grant ⓘ |
| workedAs |
newspaper editor
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reporter ⓘ |
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: Harold Ross Description of subject: Harold Ross was an American journalist and editor best known as the founding editor of the influential magazine The New Yorker.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.