MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist
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The MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist is a major MTV honor recognizing the most impactful emerging musical act of the year, often serving as a breakthrough moment in an artist’s mainstream career.
All labels observed (3)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5783355 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist Context triple: [One Direction, awarded, MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist]
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A.
MTV Video Music Award for Viewer's Choice
The MTV Video Music Award for Viewer's Choice was a fan-voted category at the MTV Video Music Awards that recognized the most popular music videos as chosen by viewers.
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B.
American Music Award for New Artist of the Year
The American Music Award for New Artist of the Year is a major U.S. music industry honor recognizing the most promising breakthrough recording artists across all genres.
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C.
MTV Video Music Award for Best Male Video
The MTV Video Music Award for Best Male Video is a category at the MTV VMAs that honors outstanding music videos by male solo artists.
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D.
MTV Video Music Award for Breakthrough Video
The MTV Video Music Award for Breakthrough Video is a category at the MTV VMAs that honors music videos noted for their innovative, experimental, or boundary-pushing creative vision.
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E.
MTV Video Music Award
The MTV Video Music Award is a prominent music video accolade presented annually by MTV to honor outstanding achievements in the medium.
- 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: MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist Target entity description: The MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist is a major MTV honor recognizing the most impactful emerging musical act of the year, often serving as a breakthrough moment in an artist’s mainstream career.
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A.
MTV Video Music Award for Viewer's Choice
The MTV Video Music Award for Viewer's Choice was a fan-voted category at the MTV Video Music Awards that recognized the most popular music videos as chosen by viewers.
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B.
American Music Award for New Artist of the Year
The American Music Award for New Artist of the Year is a major U.S. music industry honor recognizing the most promising breakthrough recording artists across all genres.
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C.
MTV Video Music Award for Best Male Video
The MTV Video Music Award for Best Male Video is a category at the MTV VMAs that honors outstanding music videos by male solo artists.
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D.
MTV Video Music Award for Breakthrough Video
The MTV Video Music Award for Breakthrough Video is a category at the MTV VMAs that honors music videos noted for their innovative, experimental, or boundary-pushing creative vision.
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E.
MTV Video Music Award
The MTV Video Music Award is a prominent music video accolade presented annually by MTV to honor outstanding achievements in the medium.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
MTV Video Music Award category
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music award ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Artist to Watch (2013–2015)
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Best New Artist ⓘ Best New Artist (2007–2010) NERFINISHED ⓘ Best New Artist (2012–2013) NERFINISHED ⓘ Best New Artist in a Video ⓘ Best New Artist in a Video (1984–2006) ⓘ Push Artist of the Year (2018) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardCeremonyLocation | various cities in the United States ⓘ |
| awardFor | best new artist in music videos ⓘ |
| broadcastOn | MTV NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| categoryType | artist-based award ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| eligibilityCriteria | new or breakthrough artists with significant impact in the eligibility year ⓘ |
| firstAwarded | 1984 MTV Video Music Awards NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| frequency | annual ⓘ |
| genre | popular music ⓘ |
| hasNominee |
bands
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music groups ⓘ solo artists ⓘ |
| hasTrophy | MTV Moon Person statuette NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.mtv.com/vma ⓘ |
| hasWinner |
50 Cent
NERFINISHED
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Alanis Morissette NERFINISHED ⓘ Billie Eilish NERFINISHED ⓘ Doja Cat NERFINISHED ⓘ Eminem NERFINISHED ⓘ Guns N’ Roses NERFINISHED ⓘ Justin Bieber NERFINISHED ⓘ Lady Gaga NERFINISHED ⓘ Lil Nas X NERFINISHED ⓘ Madonna NERFINISHED ⓘ Nirvana NERFINISHED ⓘ Olivia Rodrigo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inception | 1984 ⓘ |
| medium | music video ⓘ |
| notableFor |
recognizing emerging musical acts
ⓘ
serving as a breakthrough moment in artists’ mainstream careers ⓘ |
| officialLanguage | English ⓘ |
| organizer | MTV Networks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | MTV Video Music Awards NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| presentedBy | MTV NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedTo | Grammy Award for Best New Artist NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| selectionMethod | voting by MTV and public voting (varies by year) ⓘ |
| significance | major MTV honor for emerging artists ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist Description of subject: The MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist is a major MTV honor recognizing the most impactful emerging musical act of the year, often serving as a breakthrough moment in an artist’s mainstream career.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist in a Video
subject surface form:
Fiona Apple
One Direction – What Makes You Beautiful
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awardReceived
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MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist
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subject surface form:
What Makes You Beautiful
subject surface form:
Issues (song)
this entity surface form:
MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist (for Julia Michaels, supported by the song)