WLW
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WLW is a historic Cincinnati-based AM radio station once known as "The Nation's Station" for its powerful clear-channel broadcasts across much of the United States.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| WLW canonical | 4 |
| WLW Television | 1 |
| WLW radio | 1 |
| WLW-FM (historical and branding-related stations) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3214562 — 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: WLW Context triple: [Mutual Broadcasting System, foundingMemberStation, WLW]
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A.
WNLO
WNLO is a major Chinese research institute specializing in optoelectronics and photonics, based in Wuhan.
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B.
WLM
WLM (Workload Manager) is an IBM z/OS component that dynamically manages and prioritizes system workloads to meet performance goals and service-level objectives.
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C.
WPG
WPG is the standard three-letter abbreviation used for the NHL’s Winnipeg Jets franchise.
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D.
YWLM
YWLM is the ICAO airport code for Newcastle Airport in New South Wales, Australia.
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E.
LGB
LGB is the IATA airport code for Long Beach Airport, a public airport serving the Long Beach and greater Los Angeles area in California.
- 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: WLW Target entity description: WLW is a historic Cincinnati-based AM radio station once known as "The Nation's Station" for its powerful clear-channel broadcasts across much of the United States.
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A.
WNLO
WNLO is a major Chinese research institute specializing in optoelectronics and photonics, based in Wuhan.
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B.
WLM
WLM (Workload Manager) is an IBM z/OS component that dynamically manages and prioritizes system workloads to meet performance goals and service-level objectives.
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C.
WPG
WPG is the standard three-letter abbreviation used for the NHL’s Winnipeg Jets franchise.
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D.
YWLM
YWLM is the ICAO airport code for Newcastle Airport in New South Wales, Australia.
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E.
LGB
LGB is the IATA airport code for Long Beach Airport, a public airport serving the Long Beach and greater Los Angeles area in California.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
AM radio station
ⓘ
clear-channel station ⓘ radio station ⓘ |
| airdate | 1922 ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Powel Crosley Jr. ⓘ |
| band | AM ⓘ |
| branding | 700 WLW ⓘ |
| broadcastArea | Cincinnati metropolitan area ⓘ |
| callsignMeaning |
Powel Crosley Jr.
ⓘ
surface form:
“Willie” (from founder Powel Crosley Jr.’s company) often backronymed as “World’s Largest Wireless”
|
| carriedProgramming |
Cincinnati Reds baseball games
ⓘ
local and syndicated talk shows ⓘ |
| city | Cincinnati ⓘ |
| class | A ⓘ |
| clearChannelFrequency | 700 kHz ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| facilityId | 74255 ⓘ |
| format | news/talk ⓘ |
| formerNickname | The Nation's Station ⓘ |
| frequency | 700 kHz ⓘ |
| historicalOwner | Crosley Broadcasting Corporation ⓘ |
| historicHighPowerEra | 1930s ⓘ |
| historicMonikerReason | extremely high transmission power and nationwide reach ⓘ |
| historicPowerAuthorizationBy | Federal Radio Commission ⓘ |
| historicPowerLevel | 500000 watts ⓘ |
| licensedToServe |
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Cincinnati, Ohio
|
| licensee | iHM Licenses, LLC ⓘ |
| marketRank | Cincinnati radio market ⓘ |
| networkAffiliation |
Cincinnati Reds radio broadcasts
ⓘ
surface form:
Cincinnati Reds Radio Network
Fox News Radio ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of the most powerful U.S. broadcast stations in the 1930s
ⓘ
wide-area nighttime coverage over much of the United States ⓘ |
| originalCallsign | WLW self-link ⓘ |
| owner | iHeartMedia ⓘ |
| power | 50000 watts ⓘ |
| primaryLanguage | English ⓘ |
| regulator | Federal Communications Commission ⓘ |
| serves |
Cincinnati metropolitan area
ⓘ
surface form:
Greater Cincinnati
Indiana–Ohio–Kentucky tripoint ⓘ
surface form:
Tri-State area of Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana
|
| signalType | groundwave and skywave ⓘ |
| sisterStations |
WEBN
ⓘ
WKFS ⓘ WLW self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
WLW-FM (historical and branding-related stations)
|
| slogan | The Big One ⓘ |
| state | Ohio ⓘ |
| studioLocation |
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Cincinnati, Ohio
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| timeZone |
Eastern Time Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
Eastern Time
|
| transmissionMode | analog AM ⓘ |
| transmitterLocation | Mason, Ohio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: WLW Description of subject: WLW is a historic Cincinnati-based AM radio station once known as "The Nation's Station" for its powerful clear-channel broadcasts across much of the United States.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Mutual Broadcasting System
this entity surface form:
WLW Television
this entity surface form:
WLW-FM (historical and branding-related stations)
subject surface form:
Marty Brennaman
this entity surface form:
WLW radio