Kentucky Gazette
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The Kentucky Gazette was an early American newspaper based in Lexington, Kentucky, influential in the late 18th and early 19th centuries as a primary source of regional news and political commentary.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Kentucky Gazette canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8708848 — 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: Kentucky Gazette Context triple: [Amos Kendall, wroteFor, Kentucky Gazette]
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A.
Kentucky New Era
Kentucky New Era is a local newspaper serving Hopkinsville and the surrounding region in southwestern Kentucky.
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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.
Southern Courier
Southern Courier was a civil rights-era newspaper based in Montgomery, Alabama, known for covering racial injustice and the civil rights movement in the American South.
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D.
Greene County Messenger
Greene County Messenger is a local newspaper serving the community of Waynesburg and the surrounding areas in Greene County, Pennsylvania.
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E.
Montgomery County Sentinel
The Montgomery County Sentinel is a local newspaper based in Montgomery County, Maryland, known for covering community news and regional issues.
- 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: Kentucky Gazette Target entity description: The Kentucky Gazette was an early American newspaper based in Lexington, Kentucky, influential in the late 18th and early 19th centuries as a primary source of regional news and political commentary.
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A.
Kentucky New Era
Kentucky New Era is a local newspaper serving Hopkinsville and the surrounding region in southwestern Kentucky.
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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.
Southern Courier
Southern Courier was a civil rights-era newspaper based in Montgomery, Alabama, known for covering racial injustice and the civil rights movement in the American South.
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D.
Greene County Messenger
Greene County Messenger is a local newspaper serving the community of Waynesburg and the surrounding areas in Greene County, Pennsylvania.
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E.
Montgomery County Sentinel
The Montgomery County Sentinel is a local newspaper based in Montgomery County, Maryland, known for covering community news and regional issues.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | newspaper ⓘ |
| cityOfPublication | Lexington, Kentucky ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| coveredArea |
Kentucky frontier communities
ⓘ
Lexington, Kentucky ⓘ Ohio River Valley region ⓘ
linked to:
Ohio Valley region
|
| distributionFormat |
single-issue sales
ⓘ
subscription ⓘ |
| founder | John Bradford ⓘ |
| genre |
newspaper
ⓘ
political newspaper ⓘ regional newspaper ⓘ |
| hasFormat |
digital scans
ⓘ
microfilm copies ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
early 19th century
ⓘ
late 18th century ⓘ |
| inception | 1787 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| location | Lexington, Kentucky ⓘ |
| mainTopic |
commercial advertising
ⓘ
political commentary ⓘ public notices ⓘ regional news ⓘ |
| medium | print newspaper ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being cited in historical research on early American West
ⓘ
coverage of early Kentucky and U.S. politics ⓘ coverage of frontier and settlement issues in Kentucky ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | varied over time ⓘ |
| printingTechnology | letterpress printing ⓘ |
| publicationFrequency | periodical ⓘ |
| publisher | John Bradford ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Kentucky
ⓘ
Trans-Appalachian West ⓘ |
| role |
forum for political debate in early Kentucky
ⓘ
primary source of regional news in early Kentucky ⓘ source for historians of early Kentucky history ⓘ vehicle for official government notices in Kentucky ⓘ |
| significance |
one of the earliest newspapers west of the Allegheny Mountains
ⓘ
one of the first newspapers in Kentucky ⓘ |
| state | Kentucky ⓘ |
| status | defunct ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
archival microfilm collections
ⓘ
digital newspaper archives ⓘ historical studies of early American newspapers ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Kentucky Gazette Description of subject: The Kentucky Gazette was an early American newspaper based in Lexington, Kentucky, influential in the late 18th and early 19th centuries as a primary source of regional news and political commentary.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.