CBC
E10963
CBC is Canada's national public broadcaster, known for airing major sports events, news, and original programming on television and radio.
All labels observed (22)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T109029 — 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: CBC Context triple: [1993 NHL All-Star Game, televisionNetworkCanada, CBC]
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A.
CBS
CBS is a major American broadcast television network known for airing a wide range of popular news, sports, and entertainment programming nationwide.
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B.
NBC
NBC is a major American broadcast television network known for its nationwide programming, including news, sports, and entertainment.
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C.
Rogers Communications
Rogers Communications is a major Canadian telecommunications and media company providing wireless, cable, internet, and broadcasting services nationwide.
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D.
PBS
PBS is a U.S. public television network known for educational, scientific, and cultural programming.
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E.
CNN
CNN is a major American cable news television channel known for pioneering 24-hour news coverage and live reporting from global events.
- 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: CBC Target entity description: CBC is Canada's national public broadcaster, known for airing major sports events, news, and original programming on television and radio.
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A.
CBS
CBS is a major American broadcast television network known for airing a wide range of popular news, sports, and entertainment programming nationwide.
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B.
NBC
NBC is a major American broadcast television network known for its nationwide programming, including news, sports, and entertainment.
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C.
Rogers Communications
Rogers Communications is a major Canadian telecommunications and media company providing wireless, cable, internet, and broadcasting services nationwide.
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D.
PBS
PBS is a U.S. public television network known for educational, scientific, and cultural programming.
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E.
CNN
CNN is a major American cable news television channel known for pioneering 24-hour news coverage and live reporting from global events.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crown corporation
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media organization ⓘ public broadcaster ⓘ radio network ⓘ television network ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
CBC
self-link
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SRC ⓘ |
| broadcastArea |
Canada
ⓘ
international ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| foundedIn | 1936 ⓘ |
| fullName |
CBC
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
|
| fundingSource |
advertising revenue
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parliamentary appropriations ⓘ |
| hasDivision |
CBC
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
CBC Music
CBC self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
CBC News
CBC self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
CBC Radio
CBC Radio 2 ⓘ CBC self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
CBC Radio One
CBC Sports ⓘ CBC Television ⓘ Ici Musique ⓘ Ici Radio-Canada Première ⓘ CBC self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Ici Radio-Canada Télé
|
| hasService |
CBC Gem
ⓘ
CBC self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
CBC News Network
CBC self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
CBC.ca
Ici RDI ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Ottawa
ⓘ
surface form:
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
|
| industry |
broadcasting
ⓘ
mass media ⓘ |
| legalStatus | federal Crown corporation ⓘ |
| mandate | provide radio and television services incorporating a wide range of programming that informs, enlightens and entertains ⓘ |
| notableProgram |
CBC
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
As It Happens
Hockey Night in Canada ⓘ Marketplace ⓘ The Fifth Estate ⓘ The National ⓘ q ⓘ |
| owner |
Canadian federal government (Ottawa)
ⓘ
surface form:
Government of Canada
|
| primaryLanguage |
English
ⓘ
French ⓘ |
| programmingType |
children's programming
ⓘ
comedy ⓘ documentaries ⓘ news ⓘ original drama ⓘ sports ⓘ |
| regulator | Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ⓘ |
| serviceType | public broadcasting ⓘ |
| shortDescription | Canada's national public broadcaster for radio, television, and digital services ⓘ |
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: CBC Description of subject: CBC is Canada's national public broadcaster, known for airing major sports events, news, and original programming on television and radio.
Referenced by (146)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
1993 NHL All-Star Game
subject surface form:
1997 NHL All-Star Game
this entity surface form:
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
this entity surface form:
CBC Radio
this entity surface form:
CBC News
this entity surface form:
CBC Music
this entity surface form:
CBC Radio One
this entity surface form:
Ici Radio-Canada Télé
this entity surface form:
CBC.ca
this entity surface form:
CBC News Network
this entity surface form:
As It Happens
this entity surface form:
CBC (Canada, past broadcaster)
this entity surface form:
CBC Radio
this entity surface form:
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
this entity surface form:
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
this entity surface form:
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
this entity surface form:
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
this entity surface form:
CBC/Radio-Canada
this entity surface form:
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
this entity surface form:
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
this entity surface form:
CBC Radio
this entity surface form:
CBC.ca
this entity surface form:
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
this entity surface form:
CBC/Radio-Canada
this entity surface form:
CBC/Radio-Canada
this entity surface form:
CBC/Radio-Canada
this entity surface form:
Société Radio-Canada
this entity surface form:
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
this entity surface form:
CBC News
this entity surface form:
CBC/Radio-Canada
this entity surface form:
CBC News Network
this entity surface form:
CBC/Radio-Canada
this entity surface form:
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
this entity surface form:
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
this entity surface form:
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
this entity surface form:
CBC News programming