MTV Video Music Award for Best Video with a Message
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The MTV Video Music Award for Best Video with a Message was a VMA category recognizing music videos that promoted powerful social or political messages, such as Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way.”
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| MTV Video Music Award for Best Video with a Message canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8485563 — 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: MTV Video Music Award for Best Video with a Message Context triple: [Born This Way, award, MTV Video Music Award for Best Video with a Message]
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A.
MTV Video Music Award for Best Female Video
The MTV Video Music Award for Best Female Video was a category at the MTV VMAs that honored outstanding music videos performed by female artists.
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B.
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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C.
MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year
The MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year is the top honor at MTV's annual Video Music Awards, recognizing the most outstanding and influential music video released that year.
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D.
MTV Video Music Award for Best Pop Video
The MTV Video Music Award for Best Pop Video is a category at the MTV VMAs that honors outstanding pop music videos released within the eligibility year.
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E.
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.
- 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 Video with a Message Target entity description: The MTV Video Music Award for Best Video with a Message was a VMA category recognizing music videos that promoted powerful social or political messages, such as Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way.”
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A.
MTV Video Music Award for Best Female Video
The MTV Video Music Award for Best Female Video was a category at the MTV VMAs that honored outstanding music videos performed by female artists.
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B.
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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C.
MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year
The MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year is the top honor at MTV's annual Video Music Awards, recognizing the most outstanding and influential music video released that year.
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D.
MTV Video Music Award for Best Pop Video
The MTV Video Music Award for Best Pop Video is a category at the MTV VMAs that honors outstanding pop music videos released within the eligibility year.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
MTV Video Music Award category
ⓘ
music video award category ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Best Video with a Message
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Video With a Message Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardCriterion |
impact of message in the video
ⓘ
relevance of social or political theme ⓘ |
| awardedBy | MTV NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardFor |
music videos with political messages
ⓘ
music videos with social messages ⓘ |
| categoryType | special thematic category ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| emphasis |
powerful political messages
ⓘ
powerful social messages ⓘ |
| exampleWork | "Born This Way" by Lady Gaga NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAwarded | 2011 MTV Video Music Awards NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreFocus | popular music ⓘ |
| hasMedium |
online voting
ⓘ
television broadcast ⓘ |
| inception | 2011 ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | increasing social themes in pop music videos ⓘ |
| isSubsetOf | MTV VMA special awards NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWinner | Lady Gaga – "Born This Way" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| organizer | MTV Networks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | MTV Video Music Awards NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| presentedInLanguage | English ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
political activism in music
ⓘ
social activism in music ⓘ |
| selectionProcess | viewer-voted award ⓘ |
| status | discontinued MTV VMA category ⓘ |
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: MTV Video Music Award for Best Video with a Message Description of subject: The MTV Video Music Award for Best Video with a Message was a VMA category recognizing music videos that promoted powerful social or political messages, such as Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way.”
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Born This Way