NBC Nightly News
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NBC Nightly News is a long-running American evening television news program that provides national and international news coverage on the NBC network.
All labels observed (9)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T108804 — 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: NBC Nightly News Context triple: [NBC, notableProgram, NBC Nightly News]
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A.
CNN
CNN is a major American cable news television channel known for pioneering 24-hour news coverage and live reporting from global events.
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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.
Fox News Channel
Fox News Channel is a major American cable television news network known for its conservative-leaning commentary and wide influence on U.S. political discourse.
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D.
The New York Times
The New York Times is a leading American newspaper renowned for its influential journalism, extensive global coverage, and role as a newspaper of record.
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E.
CBS
CBS is a major American broadcast television network known for airing a wide range of popular news, sports, and entertainment programming nationwide.
- 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: NBC Nightly News Target entity description: NBC Nightly News is a long-running American evening television news program that provides national and international news coverage on the NBC network.
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A.
CNN
CNN is a major American cable news television channel known for pioneering 24-hour news coverage and live reporting from global events.
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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.
Fox News Channel
Fox News Channel is a major American cable television news network known for its conservative-leaning commentary and wide influence on U.S. political discourse.
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D.
The New York Times
The New York Times is a leading American newspaper renowned for its influential journalism, extensive global coverage, and role as a newspaper of record.
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E.
CBS
CBS is a major American broadcast television network known for airing a wide range of popular news, sports, and entertainment programming nationwide.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
evening news program
ⓘ
television news program ⓘ |
| alsoDistributedAs |
online video
ⓘ
podcast ⓘ |
| audioFormat | stereo ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Emmy Award
ⓘ
Peabody Award ⓘ |
| broadcastMedium | television ⓘ |
| broadcastOn |
NBC
ⓘ
surface form:
NBC television network
|
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| coverageArea |
international news
ⓘ
national news ⓘ |
| creator |
NBC
ⓘ
surface form:
NBC News
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| distributor | NBC ⓘ |
| firstAired | 1970-08-03 ⓘ |
| format | half-hour evening news broadcast ⓘ |
| genre | news ⓘ |
| hasFormerAnchor |
Brian Williams
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David Brinkley ⓘ John Chancellor ⓘ Tom Brokaw ⓘ |
| hasHost | Lester Holt ⓘ |
| hasPart |
NBC Nightly News
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt
|
| hasSegment |
interviews
ⓘ
news reports ⓘ special reports ⓘ |
| isPartOf | NBC News division ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| location | New York City ⓘ |
| network | NBC ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | NBC ⓘ |
| pictureFormat | high-definition television ⓘ |
| precededBy |
NBC Nightly News
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Huntley–Brinkley Report
|
| primaryStudio |
Rockefeller Center
ⓘ
surface form:
NBC Studios at Rockefeller Center
|
| productionCompany |
NBC
ⓘ
surface form:
NBC News
|
| subject |
breaking news
ⓘ
current events ⓘ economy ⓘ international affairs ⓘ politics ⓘ |
| targetAudience | general audience ⓘ |
| timeSlot | evening ⓘ |
| typicalRuntime | 30 minutes ⓘ |
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: NBC Nightly News Description of subject: NBC Nightly News is a long-running American evening television news program that provides national and international news coverage on the NBC network.
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Huntley–Brinkley Report
this entity surface form:
NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt
this entity surface form:
NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams
this entity surface form:
NBC Nightly News anchor team
this entity surface form:
NBC Nightly News (as correspondent and anchor)
this entity surface form:
NBC Nightly News (radio newscasts)
this entity surface form:
NBC Nightly News (substitute anchor)
this entity surface form:
NBC nightly evening news
subject surface form:
Tom Brokaw