KFWB
E403482
KFWB is a Los Angeles-based AM radio station historically known for its news and talk formats and long-time ownership by Westinghouse Broadcasting (Group W).
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| KFI | 1 |
| KFWB canonical | 1 |
| KFWB News 98 | 1 |
| KFWB-AM | 1 |
| News 98 KFWB | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3973459 — 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: KFWB Context triple: [Group W, ownedStation, KFWB]
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A.
KSFO
KSFO is the ICAO airport code for San Francisco International Airport, a major international aviation hub serving the San Francisco Bay Area in California.
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B.
KALB
KALB is the ICAO airport code for Albany International Airport, a major commercial airport serving New York’s Capital Region.
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C.
WFLD
WFLD is a Fox-owned television station serving the Chicago, Illinois market.
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D.
KDFI
KDFI is a television station serving the Dallas–Fort Worth, Texas market, operating as an independent outlet alongside the local Fox affiliate.
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E.
KGO-TV
KGO-TV is a major ABC-owned local television station serving the San Francisco Bay Area with news, entertainment, and network programming.
- 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: KFWB Target entity description: KFWB is a Los Angeles-based AM radio station historically known for its news and talk formats and long-time ownership by Westinghouse Broadcasting (Group W).
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A.
KSFO
KSFO is the ICAO airport code for San Francisco International Airport, a major international aviation hub serving the San Francisco Bay Area in California.
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B.
KALB
KALB is the ICAO airport code for Albany International Airport, a major commercial airport serving New York’s Capital Region.
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C.
WFLD
WFLD is a Fox-owned television station serving the Chicago, Illinois market.
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D.
KDFI
KDFI is a television station serving the Dallas–Fort Worth, Texas market, operating as an independent outlet alongside the local Fox affiliate.
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E.
KGO-TV
KGO-TV is a major ABC-owned local television station serving the San Francisco Bay Area with news, entertainment, and network programming.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
AM radio station
ⓘ
news radio station ⓘ radio station ⓘ talk radio station ⓘ |
| band | AM ⓘ |
| branding |
KFWB
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
KFWB News 98
KFWB self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
News 98 KFWB
|
| broadcastArea |
Greater Los Angeles Area
ⓘ
surface form:
Greater Los Angeles
|
| callSignMeaning | originally assigned sequentially ⓘ |
| city | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| format |
news
ⓘ
talk ⓘ |
| formerCallsign |
KFWB
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
KFWB-AM
|
| formerFormat |
Top 40
ⓘ
all-news ⓘ sports radio ⓘ |
| formerOwner | Westinghouse Electric Corporation ⓘ |
| frequency | 980 kHz ⓘ |
| genre |
news radio
ⓘ
talk radio ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| licensedToServe |
Los Angeles, California, United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
Los Angeles, California
|
| location |
Los Angeles, California, United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
Los Angeles, California
|
| market | Los Angeles radio market ⓘ |
| medium | terrestrial radio ⓘ |
| networkAffiliation | Group W news ⓘ |
| notableFor |
long-time all-news format in Los Angeles
ⓘ
long-time ownership by Westinghouse Broadcasting (Group W) ⓘ |
| owner |
Group W
ⓘ
Westinghouse Broadcasting Company ⓘ
surface form:
Westinghouse Broadcasting
|
| platform | AM broadcast radio ⓘ |
| regulatoryAuthority | Federal Communications Commission ⓘ |
| service |
news programming
ⓘ
talk programming ⓘ |
| state |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
|
| transmissionType | analog ⓘ |
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: KFWB Description of subject: KFWB is a Los Angeles-based AM radio station historically known for its news and talk formats and long-time ownership by Westinghouse Broadcasting (Group W).
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
KFI
this entity surface form:
KFWB-AM