UBS Evening News
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UBS Evening News is the fictional television news program featured in the 1976 film "Network," where anchor Howard Beale delivers his famous on-air breakdown.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| UBS Evening News canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12859131 — 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: UBS Evening News Context triple: [Howard Beale, worksFor, UBS Evening News]
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A.
The World Tonight
"The World Tonight" is a rock song by Paul McCartney, released in 1997 as one of the singles from his album Flaming Pie.
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B.
The World Tonight
The World Tonight is a long-running BBC Radio 4 evening news and current affairs programme known for in-depth reporting and analysis of national and international events.
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C.
The World Tonight
The World Tonight is a long-running Philippine late-night television newscast known for its in-depth coverage of national and international news.
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D.
Bloomberg Television
Bloomberg Television is a global 24-hour business and financial news television network owned by Bloomberg L.P., known for its real-time market coverage and analysis.
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E.
Eikon
Eikon is the graphical user interface framework used by the EPOC operating system to build and manage its visual applications and controls.
- 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: UBS Evening News Target entity description: UBS Evening News is the fictional television news program featured in the 1976 film "Network," where anchor Howard Beale delivers his famous on-air breakdown.
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A.
The World Tonight
"The World Tonight" is a rock song by Paul McCartney, released in 1997 as one of the singles from his album Flaming Pie.
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B.
The World Tonight
The World Tonight is a long-running BBC Radio 4 evening news and current affairs programme known for in-depth reporting and analysis of national and international events.
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C.
The World Tonight
The World Tonight is a long-running Philippine late-night television newscast known for its in-depth coverage of national and international news.
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D.
Bloomberg Television
Bloomberg Television is a global 24-hour business and financial news television network owned by Bloomberg L.P., known for its real-time market coverage and analysis.
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E.
Eikon
Eikon is the graphical user interface framework used by the EPOC operating system to build and manage its visual applications and controls.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | fictional television news program ⓘ |
| anchorInFiction |
Howard Beale
NERFINISHED
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Max Schumacher NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInWork | Network NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedCharacter |
Diana Christensen
NERFINISHED
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Frank Hackett NERFINISHED ⓘ Howard Beale NERFINISHED ⓘ Max Schumacher NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| createdBy | Paddy Chayefsky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdForWork | film Network ⓘ |
| depictedAs | struggling news broadcast ⓘ |
| fictionalOwner | UBS network ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | film Network (1976) ⓘ |
| formatInFiction | evening news broadcast ⓘ |
| genre | television news program ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | satire of television news industry ⓘ |
| networkInFiction | UBS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEventInFiction |
Howard Beale "I’m as mad as hell" speech
NERFINISHED
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Howard Beale on-air breakdown ⓘ |
| partOfFictionalUniverse | Network universe ⓘ |
| productionCompanyInFiction | UBS News Division NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingInFiction | New York City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| themeInFiction |
commercialization of news
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media ethics ⓘ sensationalism in television news ⓘ |
| timeSlotInFiction | prime time ⓘ |
| yearOfFictionalDepiction | 1975 ⓘ |
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: UBS Evening News Description of subject: UBS Evening News is the fictional television news program featured in the 1976 film "Network," where anchor Howard Beale delivers his famous on-air breakdown.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Howard Beale