New York Evening Mail

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daily newspaper defunct newspaper newspaper

The New York Evening Mail was an early 20th-century New York City daily newspaper known for featuring the work of cartoonist and inventor Rube Goldberg.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
New York Evening Mail canonical	2
New York Mail and Express newspaper	1
The New York Evening Mail	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8831221 — 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: New York Evening Mail
Context triple: [Rube Goldberg, employer, New York Evening Mail]

A. New York Morning Telegraph
The New York Morning Telegraph was a prominent New York City newspaper known for its coverage of sports, entertainment, and gambling in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
B. New York Herald
The New York Herald was a prominent 19th- and early 20th-century American daily newspaper based in New York City, known for its large circulation and influential, often sensational, journalism.
C. New York Evening Post
The New York Evening Post was a prominent 19th-century American newspaper based in New York City, known for its influential literary and political commentary.
D. New York World
New York World was a prominent late-19th- and early-20th-century American newspaper known for pioneering mass-circulation journalism and sensational reporting.
E. New-York Tribune
The New-York Tribune was a prominent 19th- and early 20th-century American newspaper based in New York City, known for its influential journalism and political commentary.
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: New York Evening Mail
Target entity description: The New York Evening Mail was an early 20th-century New York City daily newspaper known for featuring the work of cartoonist and inventor Rube Goldberg.

A. New York Morning Telegraph
The New York Morning Telegraph was a prominent New York City newspaper known for its coverage of sports, entertainment, and gambling in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
B. New York Herald
The New York Herald was a prominent 19th- and early 20th-century American daily newspaper based in New York City, known for its large circulation and influential, often sensational, journalism.
C. New York Evening Post
The New York Evening Post was a prominent 19th-century American newspaper based in New York City, known for its influential literary and political commentary.
D. New York World
New York World was a prominent late-19th- and early-20th-century American newspaper known for pioneering mass-circulation journalism and sensational reporting.
E. New-York Tribune
The New-York Tribune was a prominent 19th- and early 20th-century American newspaper based in New York City, known for its influential journalism and political commentary.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (25)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	daily newspaper ⓘ defunct newspaper ⓘ newspaper ⓘ
activePeriod	early 20th century ⓘ
associatedWith	American journalism ⓘ New York City press ⓘ
city	New York City ⓘ
country	United States ⓘ linked to: United States of America
employed	Rube Goldberg ⓘ
genre	general-interest newspaper ⓘ
hasContributor	cartoonists ⓘ columnists ⓘ reporters ⓘ
hasFormat	broadsheet ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
location	New York City ⓘ
medium	print ⓘ
notableFor	publishing the work of Rube Goldberg ⓘ
publicationFrequency	daily ⓘ
servedArea	New York City metropolitan area ⓘ linked to: New York metropolitan area
subjectFocus	business ⓘ culture ⓘ editorials ⓘ news ⓘ politics ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Rube Goldberg → employer → New York Evening Mail ⓘ

Baseball’s Sad Lexicon → firstPublishedIn → New York Evening Mail ⓘ

Elliott Fitch Shepard → owned → New York Mail and Express newspaper ⓘ

linked to: New York Evening Mail

Grantland Rice → employer → The New York Evening Mail ⓘ