Home Box Office
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premium cable television network
streaming television network
subscription television service
television channel
Home Box Office is a premium American cable and streaming television network best known for its high-quality original series, films, and specials.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Home Box Office canonical | 22 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T865914 — 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)
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Target entity: Home Box Office Context triple: [HBO, fullName, Home Box Office]
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A.
Royal Film Performance
The Royal Film Performance is an annual British gala event attended by members of the royal family to showcase the world premiere of a major film in support of industry-related charities.
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B.
Marché du Film
Marché du Film is the Cannes Film Festival’s major international film market, where industry professionals buy, sell, and promote films and projects.
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C.
Wellywood
Wellywood is a playful nickname for Wellington, New Zealand, referencing its prominent film industry and association with director Peter Jackson.
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D.
Moviefone
Moviefone is an online service that provides movie showtimes, tickets, and related film information to consumers.
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E.
Lions' Gate
Lions' Gate is one of the historic entrances to Jerusalem’s Old City, leading directly toward the Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif area.
- 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: Home Box Office Target entity description: Home Box Office is a premium American cable and streaming television network best known for its high-quality original series, films, and specials.
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A.
Royal Film Performance
The Royal Film Performance is an annual British gala event attended by members of the royal family to showcase the world premiere of a major film in support of industry-related charities.
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B.
Marché du Film
Marché du Film is the Cannes Film Festival’s major international film market, where industry professionals buy, sell, and promote films and projects.
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C.
Wellywood
Wellywood is a playful nickname for Wellington, New Zealand, referencing its prominent film industry and association with director Peter Jackson.
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D.
Moviefone
Moviefone is an online service that provides movie showtimes, tickets, and related film information to consumers.
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E.
Lions' Gate
Lions' Gate is one of the historic entrances to Jerusalem’s Old City, leading directly toward the Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
premium cable television network
ⓘ
streaming television network ⓘ subscription television service ⓘ television channel ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | HBO ⓘ |
| availableIn |
high definition
ⓘ
standard definition ⓘ |
| broadcastArea |
Caribbean
ⓘ
Latin America ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| distributionFormat |
cable television
ⓘ
satellite television ⓘ streaming media ⓘ |
| formerStreamingBrand | HBO Max ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Charles F. Dolan
ⓘ
surface form:
Charles Dolan
|
| genre |
pay television
ⓘ
premium television ⓘ |
| hasStreamingBrand | Max ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Manhattan
ⓘ
New York ⓘ New York City ⓘ |
| inception | 1972-11-08 ⓘ |
| industry |
entertainment
ⓘ
television ⓘ |
| languageOfBroadcast | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Band of Brothers
ⓘ
Curb Your Enthusiasm ⓘ Game of Thrones ⓘ Sex and the City (TV series) ⓘ
surface form:
Sex and the City
Succession ⓘ The Sopranos ⓘ The Wire ⓘ True Detective ⓘ Veep ⓘ Westworld ⓘ |
| offers |
concert specials
ⓘ
documentaries ⓘ feature films ⓘ original television series ⓘ sports programming ⓘ stand-up comedy specials ⓘ |
| originallyOwnedBy | Time Inc. ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Warner Bros. Discovery ⓘ |
| parentOrganization |
Warner Bros. Discovery
ⓘ
Warner Bros. Discovery ⓘ
surface form:
Warner Bros. Discovery Networks
|
| partOf |
Warner Bros. Discovery
ⓘ
surface form:
Warner Bros. Discovery U.S. Networks Group
|
| pictureFormat |
1080i HDTV
ⓘ
480i SDTV ⓘ |
| serviceType |
advertising-free
ⓘ
subscription-based ⓘ |
| slogan | It’s not TV. It’s HBO. ⓘ |
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: Home Box Office Description of subject: Home Box Office is a premium American cable and streaming television network best known for its high-quality original series, films, and specials.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.