Radiolab
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Radiolab is a popular, award-winning radio show and podcast that explores scientific, philosophical, and cultural topics through highly produced, narrative-driven audio storytelling.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Radiolab canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7536394 — 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: Radiolab Context triple: [Robert Krulwich, notableWork, Radiolab]
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A.
TED Radio Hour
TED Radio Hour is a narrative-driven audio program that explores big ideas and themes through curated TED Talks and in-depth interviews with their speakers.
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B.
This American Life
This American Life is a long-running, critically acclaimed American public radio program and podcast known for its narrative journalism and storytelling about everyday people and events.
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C.
Hidden Brain
Hidden Brain is a popular NPR podcast and radio show that explores the unconscious patterns driving human behavior, decision-making, and relationships through storytelling and social science.
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D.
WNYC Studios
WNYC Studios is a New York–based public radio and podcast producer known for creating and distributing acclaimed shows across news, culture, and storytelling.
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E.
NOVA ScienceNow
NOVA ScienceNow is a television science newsmagazine series that explores cutting-edge developments in science and technology, notably hosted for several seasons by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson.
- 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: Radiolab Target entity description: Radiolab is a popular, award-winning radio show and podcast that explores scientific, philosophical, and cultural topics through highly produced, narrative-driven audio storytelling.
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A.
TED Radio Hour
TED Radio Hour is a narrative-driven audio program that explores big ideas and themes through curated TED Talks and in-depth interviews with their speakers.
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B.
This American Life
This American Life is a long-running, critically acclaimed American public radio program and podcast known for its narrative journalism and storytelling about everyday people and events.
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C.
Hidden Brain
Hidden Brain is a popular NPR podcast and radio show that explores the unconscious patterns driving human behavior, decision-making, and relationships through storytelling and social science.
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D.
WNYC Studios
WNYC Studios is a New York–based public radio and podcast producer known for creating and distributing acclaimed shows across news, culture, and storytelling.
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E.
NOVA ScienceNow
NOVA ScienceNow is a television science newsmagazine series that explores cutting-edge developments in science and technology, notably hosted for several seasons by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
audio program
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podcast ⓘ radio show ⓘ |
| availableAs |
downloadable podcast
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streaming audio ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
National Academies Communication Award
NERFINISHED
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Peabody Award ⓘ Third Coast International Audio Festival awards NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coHost |
Jad Abumrad
NERFINISHED
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Latif Nasser NERFINISHED ⓘ Lulu Miller NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Krulwich NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| creator | Jad Abumrad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distribution |
podcast platforms
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public radio ⓘ |
| firstAirDate | 2002 ⓘ |
| format |
highly produced sound design
ⓘ
narrative-driven audio storytelling ⓘ |
| genre |
documentary radio
ⓘ
narrative journalism ⓘ science communication ⓘ |
| hasEpisodeStructure |
multi-segment stories
ⓘ
thematic episodes ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Radiolab podcast feed
ⓘ
Radiolab radio broadcast ⓘ |
| hasTagline | “Investigating a strange world.” ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab ⓘ |
| inception | 2002 ⓘ |
| isPartOf | public radio programming in the United States ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mediaType | audio ⓘ |
| notableFor |
blending science and storytelling
ⓘ
explaining complex ideas accessibly ⓘ innovative sound design ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | WNYC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | WNYC Studios NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionLocation | New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publisher | WNYC Studios NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| soundDesignBy | Jad Abumrad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectMatter |
culture
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ethics ⓘ history ⓘ human behavior ⓘ philosophy ⓘ science ⓘ technology ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
general public
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science-interested listeners ⓘ |
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: Radiolab Description of subject: Radiolab is a popular, award-winning radio show and podcast that explores scientific, philosophical, and cultural topics through highly produced, narrative-driven audio storytelling.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.