Sky (New Zealand)
E441576
Sky (New Zealand) is a major New Zealand pay television and broadcasting company that provides a wide range of subscription TV channels and related services nationwide.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sky (New Zealand) canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4467445 — 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: Sky (New Zealand) Context triple: [Parliament TV (New Zealand), distribution, Sky (New Zealand)]
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A.
Kaiapoi, New Zealand
Kaiapoi, New Zealand is a small town in the Canterbury region on the South Island, known historically as a river port and for its role as a residential community for notable New Zealand figures.
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B.
Tapanui, New Zealand
Tapanui, New Zealand is a small rural town in West Otago known for its farming community and for doubling as the fictional town of Millhaven in the 2016 Disney film "Pete’s Dragon."
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C.
Pongaroa, New Zealand
Pongaroa, New Zealand is a small rural settlement in the Tararua District of the North Island, best known as the birthplace of Nobel Prize–winning physicist Maurice Wilkins.
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D.
Te Kuiti, New Zealand
Te Kuiti, New Zealand is a small rural town in the Waikato region known as the "Shearing Capital of the World" and closely associated with legendary All Blacks lock Colin Meads.
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E.
Oamaru, New Zealand
Oamaru, New Zealand is a coastal town in North Otago known for its well-preserved Victorian architecture and little blue penguin colony.
- 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: Sky (New Zealand) Target entity description: Sky (New Zealand) is a major New Zealand pay television and broadcasting company that provides a wide range of subscription TV channels and related services nationwide.
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A.
Kaiapoi, New Zealand
Kaiapoi, New Zealand is a small town in the Canterbury region on the South Island, known historically as a river port and for its role as a residential community for notable New Zealand figures.
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B.
Tapanui, New Zealand
Tapanui, New Zealand is a small rural town in West Otago known for its farming community and for doubling as the fictional town of Millhaven in the 2016 Disney film "Pete’s Dragon."
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C.
Pongaroa, New Zealand
Pongaroa, New Zealand is a small rural settlement in the Tararua District of the North Island, best known as the birthplace of Nobel Prize–winning physicist Maurice Wilkins.
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D.
Te Kuiti, New Zealand
Te Kuiti, New Zealand is a small rural town in the Waikato region known as the "Shearing Capital of the World" and closely associated with legendary All Blacks lock Colin Meads.
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E.
Oamaru, New Zealand
Oamaru, New Zealand is a coastal town in North Otago known for its well-preserved Victorian architecture and little blue penguin colony.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
broadcasting company
ⓘ
pay television company ⓘ public company ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Sky TV (New Zealand) ⓘ |
| brandName | Sky ⓘ |
| broadcastsInFormat |
high-definition television
ⓘ
standard-definition television ⓘ |
| country | New Zealand ⓘ |
| distributionPlatform |
IPTV
ⓘ
internet streaming ⓘ satellite ⓘ |
| focusesOnContentType |
entertainment
ⓘ
kids programming ⓘ movies ⓘ news ⓘ sport ⓘ |
| formerName | Sky Network Television Limited ⓘ |
| hasProduct |
Neon
ⓘ
Sky Box ⓘ Sky Broadband ⓘ Sky Go ⓘ Sky Pod ⓘ Sky Sport Now ⓘ |
| hasService |
broadband internet
ⓘ
mobile streaming ⓘ on-demand video ⓘ satellite television ⓘ streaming television ⓘ subscription television ⓘ |
| headquartersCountry | New Zealand ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Auckland ⓘ |
| industry |
broadcasting
ⓘ
pay television ⓘ streaming media ⓘ telecommunications ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| listedOn |
New Zealand Stock Exchange
ⓘ
linked to:
NZX
|
| operates |
Cartoon Network (New Zealand feed)
ⓘ
linked to:
Cartoon Network Australia
Discovery channels in New Zealand ⓘ Sky Open ⓘ Sky Sport channels ⓘ
linked to:
Sky Sport Now
SoHo (New Zealand TV channel) ⓘ SoHo 2 ⓘ |
| owns |
Prime (New Zealand TV channel)
ⓘ
Sky Sport (New Zealand) ⓘ |
| primaryRevenueModel | subscription ⓘ |
| serviceArea | New Zealand ⓘ |
| stockExchangeCode | SKT ⓘ |
| targetMarket |
New Zealand businesses
ⓘ
New Zealand households ⓘ |
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: Sky (New Zealand) Description of subject: Sky (New Zealand) is a major New Zealand pay television and broadcasting company that provides a wide range of subscription TV channels and related services nationwide.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.