SuperSport (TV channel)
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SuperSport (TV channel) is a South African-based group of sports television channels known for broadcasting a wide range of live sporting events across Africa.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| SuperSport | 2 |
| SuperSport (TV channel) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6540752 — 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: SuperSport (TV channel) Context triple: [SuperSport United F.C., owner, SuperSport (TV channel)]
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A.
SuperSport Series
The SuperSport Series is South Africa’s premier domestic first-class cricket competition, featuring the country’s top provincial and franchise teams.
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B.
Sky Sport
Sky Sport is an Italian group of pay-TV sports channels operated by Sky Italia, known for broadcasting major national and international sporting events.
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C.
Star Sports
Star Sports is a major group of sports television channels in India known for broadcasting cricket and other popular sporting events across the Indian subcontinent.
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D.
The Sports Network
The Sports Network (TSN) is a Canadian English-language sports television network known for broadcasting major national and international sporting events, sports news, and analysis.
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E.
Sky Sports
Sky Sports is a group of British pay television sports channels known for broadcasting major live sporting events, including Premier League football, cricket, golf, and Formula 1, across the UK and Ireland.
- 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: SuperSport (TV channel) Target entity description: SuperSport (TV channel) is a South African-based group of sports television channels known for broadcasting a wide range of live sporting events across Africa.
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A.
SuperSport Series
The SuperSport Series is South Africa’s premier domestic first-class cricket competition, featuring the country’s top provincial and franchise teams.
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B.
Sky Sport
Sky Sport is an Italian group of pay-TV sports channels operated by Sky Italia, known for broadcasting major national and international sporting events.
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C.
Star Sports
Star Sports is a major group of sports television channels in India known for broadcasting cricket and other popular sporting events across the Indian subcontinent.
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D.
The Sports Network
The Sports Network (TSN) is a Canadian English-language sports television network known for broadcasting major national and international sporting events, sports news, and analysis.
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E.
Sky Sports
Sky Sports is a group of British pay television sports channels known for broadcasting major live sporting events, including Premier League football, cricket, golf, and Formula 1, across the UK and Ireland.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
sports television channel
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television channel network ⓘ |
| areaServed | Sub-Saharan Africa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn | South Africa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| broadcastFormat |
high-definition television
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standard-definition television ⓘ |
| broadcasts |
CAF competitions
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FIFA World Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ Olympic Games NERFINISHED ⓘ Premier League NERFINISHED ⓘ South African domestic football ⓘ UEFA Champions League NERFINISHED ⓘ association football ⓘ athletics ⓘ basketball ⓘ boxing ⓘ cricket ⓘ golf ⓘ motorsport ⓘ rugby championships involving South African teams ⓘ rugby union ⓘ tennis ⓘ |
| continentServed | Africa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | South Africa ⓘ |
| genre | sports television ⓘ |
| hasChannel |
SuperSport Action
NERFINISHED
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SuperSport Cricket NERFINISHED ⓘ SuperSport Football NERFINISHED ⓘ SuperSport Golf NERFINISHED ⓘ SuperSport Grandstand NERFINISHED ⓘ SuperSport LaLiga NERFINISHED ⓘ SuperSport PSL NERFINISHED ⓘ SuperSport Premier League NERFINISHED ⓘ SuperSport Rugby NERFINISHED ⓘ SuperSport Variety 1 NERFINISHED ⓘ SuperSport Variety 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ SuperSport Variety 3 NERFINISHED ⓘ SuperSport Variety 4 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOnlineService |
DStv Stream
NERFINISHED
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Showmax Pro NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Gauteng, South Africa
NERFINISHED
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Randburg, South Africa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| industry |
broadcasting
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sports broadcasting ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| ownedBy | MultiChoice NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| parentCompany | MultiChoice NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| platform | DStv NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serviceType |
pay television
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subscription television ⓘ |
| targetAudience | sports fans in Africa ⓘ |
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: SuperSport (TV channel) Description of subject: SuperSport (TV channel) is a South African-based group of sports television channels known for broadcasting a wide range of live sporting events across Africa.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
SuperSport
this entity surface form:
SuperSport