WCBS-TV
E37946
WCBS-TV is the primary New York City television station of the CBS network, serving as its main owned-and-operated outlet.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| WCBS-TV canonical | 15 |
| CBS 2 | 1 |
| CBS New York | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T294880 — 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: WCBS-TV Context triple: [CBS, flagshipStation, WCBS-TV]
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A.
WNYW (New York City)
WNYW (New York City) is the primary Fox-owned television station serving the New York City metropolitan area.
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B.
WEEI-FM
WEEI-FM is a Boston-based sports radio station best known as a flagship broadcaster for Boston Red Sox games and related sports talk programming.
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C.
NBC
NBC is a major American broadcast television network known for its nationwide programming, including news, sports, and entertainment.
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D.
WNBC
WNBC is the primary NBC-owned television station serving the New York City metropolitan area.
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E.
NBC Blue Network
NBC Blue Network was an early American radio network that later evolved into the American Broadcasting Company (ABC), playing a key role in the development of U.S. broadcast media.
- 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: WCBS-TV Target entity description: WCBS-TV is the primary New York City television station of the CBS network, serving as its main owned-and-operated outlet.
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A.
WNYW (New York City)
WNYW (New York City) is the primary Fox-owned television station serving the New York City metropolitan area.
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B.
WEEI-FM
WEEI-FM is a Boston-based sports radio station best known as a flagship broadcaster for Boston Red Sox games and related sports talk programming.
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C.
NBC
NBC is a major American broadcast television network known for its nationwide programming, including news, sports, and entertainment.
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D.
WNBC
WNBC is the primary NBC-owned television station serving the New York City metropolitan area.
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E.
NBC Blue Network
NBC Blue Network was an early American radio network that later evolved into the American Broadcasting Company (ABC), playing a key role in the development of U.S. broadcast media.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
CBS owned-and-operated station
ⓘ
broadcast television network affiliate ⓘ television station ⓘ |
| affiliationType | owned-and-operated ⓘ |
| branding |
WCBS-TV
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
CBS 2
WCBS-TV self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
CBS New York
|
| broadcastStandard | ATSC ⓘ |
| callsign | WCBS-TV self-link ⓘ |
| callsignMeaning |
CBS
ⓘ
surface form:
Columbia Broadcasting System
|
| category |
CBS
ⓘ
surface form:
CBS television stations
Television channels and stations established in 1941 ⓘ Television stations in New York City ⓘ |
| cityOfLicense | New York City ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countryCoverage | New York metropolitan area ⓘ |
| countryRegulator | Federal Communications Commission ⓘ |
| digitalChannel | 36 ⓘ |
| facilityType | full-power television station ⓘ |
| fccService | Digital television ⓘ |
| firstAirDate | 1941-07-01 ⓘ |
| formerCallsign | WCBW ⓘ |
| formerTransmitterLocation | Empire State Building ⓘ |
| languageOfBroadcast | English ⓘ |
| launchYear | 1941 ⓘ |
| market |
New York metropolitan area
ⓘ
surface form:
New York City television market
|
| networkAffiliation | CBS ⓘ |
| offersService |
local news programming
ⓘ
public affairs programming ⓘ sports coverage ⓘ weather forecasts ⓘ |
| originalNetworkAffiliation | CBS ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
CBS
ⓘ
surface form:
CBS Broadcasting Inc.
|
| owner | Paramount Global ⓘ |
| parentCompany |
CBS Entertainment
ⓘ
surface form:
CBS Entertainment Group
Paramount Global ⓘ |
| primaryServiceArea |
Connecticut
ⓘ
Hudson Valley ⓘ
surface form:
Lower Hudson Valley
New Jersey, United States ⓘ
surface form:
New Jersey
New York City ⓘ |
| sisterStation |
WCBS (AM)
ⓘ
WFAN (AM) ⓘ WFAN (AM) ⓘ
surface form:
WFAN-FM
WINS (AM) ⓘ WINS (AM) ⓘ
surface form:
WINS-FM
WLNY-TV ⓘ |
| state | New York ⓘ |
| studioBorough | Manhattan ⓘ |
| studioLocation |
151 West 42nd Street
ⓘ
surface form:
1515 Broadway, Times Square, Manhattan
|
| transmitterLocation | One World Trade Center ⓘ |
| virtualChannel | 2 ⓘ |
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: WCBS-TV Description of subject: WCBS-TV is the primary New York City television station of the CBS network, serving as its main owned-and-operated outlet.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.