Columbia Broadcasting System
E289818
Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) is a major American commercial broadcast television and radio network known for its influential news, entertainment, and sports programming.
All labels observed (10)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2668121 — 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: Columbia Broadcasting System Context triple: [Bernard Herrmann, employer, Columbia Broadcasting System]
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A.
Republic Broadcasting System
Republic Broadcasting System was the former name of the Philippine media company now known as GMA Network, one of the country’s largest television and radio broadcasters.
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B.
Westinghouse Broadcasting Company
Westinghouse Broadcasting Company was a major American radio and television broadcasting group that operated numerous stations and helped shape the development of commercial broadcasting in the United States.
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C.
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is a major U.S. commercial television network known for its nationwide programming in news, entertainment, and sports.
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D.
Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Broadcasting Company is a major American television network known for its prime-time entertainment programming, including hit series, sports broadcasts, and news.
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E.
Turner Broadcasting System
Turner Broadcasting System is a major American media company best known for operating cable television networks such as CNN, TBS, and TNT.
- 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: Columbia Broadcasting System Target entity description: Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) is a major American commercial broadcast television and radio network known for its influential news, entertainment, and sports programming.
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A.
Republic Broadcasting System
Republic Broadcasting System was the former name of the Philippine media company now known as GMA Network, one of the country’s largest television and radio broadcasters.
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B.
Westinghouse Broadcasting Company
Westinghouse Broadcasting Company was a major American radio and television broadcasting group that operated numerous stations and helped shape the development of commercial broadcasting in the United States.
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C.
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is a major U.S. commercial television network known for its nationwide programming in news, entertainment, and sports.
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D.
Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Broadcasting Company is a major American television network known for its prime-time entertainment programming, including hit series, sports broadcasts, and news.
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E.
Turner Broadcasting System
Turner Broadcasting System is a major American media company best known for operating cable television networks such as CNN, TBS, and TNT.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Columbia Broadcasting System Description of subject: Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) is a major American commercial broadcast television and radio network known for its influential news, entertainment, and sports programming.
Referenced by (64)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
CBS
this entity surface form:
CBS
this entity surface form:
CBS (for The Big Bang Theory)
CBS television special "The Violent World of Sam Huff"
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productionCompany
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Columbia Broadcasting System
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subject surface form:
The Violent World of Sam Huff
this entity surface form:
CBS
subject surface form:
Thursday Night Football
this entity surface form:
CBS
subject surface form:
CBS Building
subject surface form:
CBS Building
this entity surface form:
CBS
this entity surface form:
CBS
this entity surface form:
CBS Broadcasting Inc.
this entity surface form:
CBS (historical)
this entity surface form:
CBS
this entity surface form:
CBS Inc.
this entity surface form:
CBS
this entity surface form:
CBS
this entity surface form:
CBS
this entity surface form:
CBS Inc.
this entity surface form:
CBS Inc.
this entity surface form:
Columbia Broadcasting System (implied by CBS)
this entity surface form:
Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)
subject surface form:
William S. Paley
subject surface form:
William S. Paley
this entity surface form:
CBS Inc.
this entity surface form:
CBS (through William S. Paley)
subject surface form:
Cecil Brown (war correspondent)
subject surface form:
Robert Henry Best
subject surface form:
William S. Paley