The Washington Times
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The Washington Times is a conservative-leaning daily newspaper based in Washington, D.C., known for its political coverage and commentary.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Washington Times canonical | 4 |
| The Washington Times LLC | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5056921 — 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 Washington Times Context triple: [George S. Kaufman, employer, The Washington Times]
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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.
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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C.
The Baltimore Sun
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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D.
National Post
The National Post is a Canadian English-language daily newspaper known for its national coverage and generally conservative editorial stance.
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E.
Free Press
Free Press is an American publishing imprint known for releasing influential works of nonfiction, including titles in politics, history, and current affairs.
- 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 Washington Times Target entity description: The Washington Times is a conservative-leaning daily newspaper based in Washington, D.C., known for its political coverage and commentary.
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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.
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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C.
The Baltimore Sun
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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D.
National Post
The National Post is a Canadian English-language daily newspaper known for its national coverage and generally conservative editorial stance.
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E.
Free Press
Free Press is an American publishing imprint known for releasing influential works of nonfiction, including titles in politics, history, and current affairs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English-language newspaper
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conservative newspaper ⓘ daily newspaper ⓘ |
| city | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| competitor |
The Washington Post
ⓘ
linked to:
Washington Post
|
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| coverage |
U.S. national news
ⓘ
business ⓘ culture ⓘ editorials ⓘ international news ⓘ opinion and commentary ⓘ politics ⓘ sports ⓘ |
| distributionArea |
Washington, D.C. metropolitan area
ⓘ
linked to:
Washington metropolitan area
national distribution ⓘ |
| format | broadsheet ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Sun Myung Moon
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Unification Church ⓘ |
| foundingDate | 1982-05-17 ⓘ |
| hasEdition |
online edition
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print edition ⓘ |
| hasSection |
business
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editorials ⓘ metro ⓘ nation ⓘ news ⓘ opinion ⓘ sports ⓘ world ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| ideology |
economic conservatism
ⓘ
social conservatism ⓘ |
| inception | 1982 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| motto | Reliable Reporting. The Right Opinion. ⓘ |
| name | The Washington Times ⓘ |
| notableFor |
conservative political commentary
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coverage of U.S. federal government ⓘ |
| owner | Operations Holdings, Inc. ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment |
conservative
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right-leaning ⓘ |
| publisher |
The Washington Times LLC
ⓘ
linked to:
The Washington Times
|
| publisherType | commercial media organization ⓘ |
| subjectFocus |
Republican Party politics
ⓘ
U.S. conservative movement ⓘ |
| website | https://www.washingtontimes.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 Washington Times Description of subject: The Washington Times is a conservative-leaning daily newspaper based in Washington, D.C., known for its political coverage and commentary.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Washington Times