KYW (AM)
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KYW (AM) is a long-running Philadelphia-based all-news radio station known for its continuous local news coverage and distinctive “Newsradio 1060” branding.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| KYW (AM) canonical | 6 |
| KYW | 2 |
| KYW-FM | 2 |
| KYW Newsradio | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T775836 — 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: KYW (AM) Context triple: [Westinghouse Electric Corporation, owned, KYW (AM)]
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A.
KDKA (AM)
KDKA (AM) is a historic Pittsburgh radio station widely recognized as one of the first commercially licensed broadcast stations in the United States.
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B.
KMDW
KMDW is the ICAO airport code for Chicago Midway International Airport, a major commercial airport serving the Chicago metropolitan area in Illinois, USA.
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C.
WBZ (AM)
WBZ (AM) is a historic Boston-based AM radio station known for its news, talk, and sports programming and status as one of the oldest broadcast stations in the United States.
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D.
WBZ-FM
WBZ-FM is a Boston-area sports radio station known for its all-sports format and coverage of local professional teams.
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E.
KCTS-TV
KCTS-TV is a Seattle-based public television station best known for producing educational programs such as the science show "Bill Nye the Science Guy."
- 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: KYW (AM) Target entity description: KYW (AM) is a long-running Philadelphia-based all-news radio station known for its continuous local news coverage and distinctive “Newsradio 1060” branding.
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A.
KDKA (AM)
KDKA (AM) is a historic Pittsburgh radio station widely recognized as one of the first commercially licensed broadcast stations in the United States.
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B.
KMDW
KMDW is the ICAO airport code for Chicago Midway International Airport, a major commercial airport serving the Chicago metropolitan area in Illinois, USA.
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C.
WBZ (AM)
WBZ (AM) is a historic Boston-based AM radio station known for its news, talk, and sports programming and status as one of the oldest broadcast stations in the United States.
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D.
WBZ-FM
WBZ-FM is a Boston-area sports radio station known for its all-sports format and coverage of local professional teams.
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E.
KCTS-TV
KCTS-TV is a Seattle-based public television station best known for producing educational programs such as the science show "Bill Nye the Science Guy."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
AM radio station
ⓘ
all-news radio station ⓘ radio station ⓘ |
| airdate | 1921 ⓘ |
| band | AM ⓘ |
| branding |
KYW (AM)
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
KYW Newsradio
Newsradio 1060 ⓘ |
| broadcastArea |
Delaware Valley
ⓘ
Philadelphia metropolitan area ⓘ |
| callSign |
KYW (AM)
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
KYW
|
| callsignMeaning | originally sequential; later associated with "Westinghouse" ⓘ |
| cityOfLicense |
Philadelphia
ⓘ
surface form:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
|
| class | Class A clear-channel ⓘ |
| clearChannelFrequency | 1060 kHz ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| format | all-news ⓘ |
| formerCityOfLicense |
Chicago, Illinois, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Chicago, Illinois
Cleveland ⓘ
surface form:
Cleveland, Ohio
|
| formerOwner |
CBS Radio
ⓘ
Westinghouse Broadcasting Company ⓘ
surface form:
Westinghouse Broadcasting
|
| frequency | 1060 kHz ⓘ |
| languageOfBroadcast | English ⓘ |
| licensedToServe |
Philadelphia
ⓘ
surface form:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
|
| licensee |
Audacy, Inc.
ⓘ
surface form:
Audacy License, LLC
|
| market | Philadelphia radio market ⓘ |
| movedToCity |
Philadelphia
ⓘ
surface form:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
|
| networkAffiliation |
CBS Radio
ⓘ
surface form:
CBS News Radio
|
| notableFor |
being one of the oldest radio stations in the United States
ⓘ
pioneering the all-news radio format in Philadelphia ⓘ |
| originalCityOfLicense |
Chicago, Illinois, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Chicago, Illinois
|
| owner | Audacy, Inc. ⓘ |
| power | 50,000 watts ⓘ |
| programmingFeature |
business news
ⓘ
sports updates ⓘ traffic reports ⓘ weather reports ⓘ |
| programmingType | continuous local news ⓘ |
| regulatoryAuthority | Federal Communications Commission ⓘ |
| service | terrestrial radio ⓘ |
| sisterStation |
KYW-TV
ⓘ
WIP-FM ⓘ WOGL ⓘ WPHT ⓘ WTDY-FM ⓘ WXTU ⓘ |
| slogan | All News, All the Time ⓘ |
| studioLocation |
Center City Philadelphia
ⓘ
surface form:
Center City, Philadelphia
|
| transmitterLocation | Whitemarsh Township, Pennsylvania ⓘ |
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: KYW (AM) Description of subject: KYW (AM) is a long-running Philadelphia-based all-news radio station known for its continuous local news coverage and distinctive “Newsradio 1060” branding.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
KYW-FM
this entity surface form:
KYW
this entity surface form:
KYW-FM