National Broadcasting Company
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The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is a major American commercial television and radio network, one of the oldest and most influential broadcasters in the United States.
All labels observed (9)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2815595 — 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: National Broadcasting Company Context triple: [Mutual Broadcasting System, competitor, National Broadcasting Company]
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A.
Columbia Broadcasting System
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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B.
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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C.
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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D.
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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E.
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.
- 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: National Broadcasting Company Target entity description: The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is a major American commercial television and radio network, one of the oldest and most influential broadcasters in the United States.
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A.
Columbia Broadcasting System
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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B.
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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C.
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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D.
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
broadcast network
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commercial broadcaster ⓘ media company ⓘ radio network ⓘ television network ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
NBC
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surface form:
NBC Network
|
| broadcastFormat |
high-definition television
ⓘ
standard-definition television ⓘ |
| broadcastMedium |
cable television
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radio ⓘ satellite television ⓘ terrestrial television ⓘ |
| broadcastStandard | ATSC ⓘ |
| competitor |
American Broadcasting Company
ⓘ
Columbia Broadcasting System ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| foundedBy | Radio Corporation of America ⓘ |
| foundingLocation | New York City ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy programming
ⓘ
drama programming ⓘ general entertainment ⓘ news ⓘ sports broadcasting ⓘ |
| hasDivision |
NBC
ⓘ
surface form:
NBC Entertainment
NBC News ⓘ NBC Sports ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
30 Rockefeller Plaza, Manhattan
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surface form:
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York City ⓘ |
| inception | 1926 ⓘ |
| industry |
broadcasting
ⓘ
mass media ⓘ |
| languageOfBroadcast | English ⓘ |
| laterExpandedTo | television network ⓘ |
| logoFeature | stylized peacock ⓘ |
| logoIntroduced | 1956 ⓘ |
| marketPosition | one of the Big Three television networks in the United States ⓘ |
| notableProgram |
Meet the Press
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NBC Nightly News ⓘ Saturday Night Live ⓘ The Tonight Show ⓘ Today ⓘ |
| originalNetworkType | radio network ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
NBCUniversal
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surface form:
NBCUniversal Media, LLC
|
| parentOrganization |
Comcast
ⓘ
NBCUniversal ⓘ |
| serviceArea |
Canada
ⓘ
Caribbean ⓘ Mexico ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| shortName | NBC ⓘ |
| slogan |
Must See TV
ⓘ
The More You Know ⓘ This is NBC ⓘ |
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: National Broadcasting Company Description of subject: The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is a major American commercial television and radio network, one of the oldest and most influential broadcasters in the United States.
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National Broadcasting Company (NBC)
this entity surface form:
National Broadcasting Company (NBC)