MTV Video Music Award
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The MTV Video Music Award is a prominent music video accolade presented annually by MTV to honor outstanding achievements in the medium.
All labels observed (27)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T34279 — 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 Context triple: [Whitney Houston, awardReceived, MTV Video Music Award]
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A.
Billboard Music Award
The Billboard Music Award is a major American music industry honor presented annually by Billboard magazine to recognize artists’ commercial success and chart performance.
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B.
American Music Award
The American Music Award is a major annual U.S. music awards show recognizing popular artists and recordings across a wide range of genres.
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C.
Grammy Award
The Grammy Award is a prestigious music industry honor presented annually by the Recording Academy to recognize outstanding achievements in the recording arts.
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D.
Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media
The Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media is a music industry honor recognizing outstanding original songs composed specifically for films, television, video games, or other visual media.
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E.
Emmy Award
The Emmy Award is a prestigious American television accolade recognizing excellence in various sectors of the television industry, including entertainment, news, and documentary programming.
- 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 Target entity description: The MTV Video Music Award is a prominent music video accolade presented annually by MTV to honor outstanding achievements in the medium.
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A.
Billboard Music Award
The Billboard Music Award is a major American music industry honor presented annually by Billboard magazine to recognize artists’ commercial success and chart performance.
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B.
American Music Award
The American Music Award is a major annual U.S. music awards show recognizing popular artists and recordings across a wide range of genres.
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C.
Grammy Award
The Grammy Award is a prestigious music industry honor presented annually by the Recording Academy to recognize outstanding achievements in the recording arts.
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D.
Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media
The Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media is a music industry honor recognizing outstanding original songs composed specifically for films, television, video games, or other visual media.
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E.
Emmy Award
The Emmy Award is a prestigious American television accolade recognizing excellence in various sectors of the television industry, including entertainment, news, and documentary programming.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
award ceremony
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music award ⓘ television award ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
MTV Video Music Award
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surface form:
MTV VMA
MTV ⓘ
surface form:
VMA
|
| awardFor |
music videos
ⓘ
outstanding achievements in music video medium ⓘ |
| broadcastOn |
MTV
ⓘ
MTV2 ⓘ VH1 ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| firstBroadcastYear | 1984 ⓘ |
| frequency | annual ⓘ |
| genre | popular music ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
Artist of the Year
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Best Art Direction ⓘ Best Choreography ⓘ Best Cinematography ⓘ Best Collaboration ⓘ Best Direction ⓘ Best Editing ⓘ Best Hip-Hop ⓘ Best K-Pop ⓘ Best Latin ⓘ Best New Artist ⓘ Best Pop ⓘ Best R&B ⓘ Best Rock ⓘ Best Video for Good ⓘ Best Visual Effects ⓘ Song of the Year ⓘ MTV Video Music Award self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Video of the Year
|
| hasMainTrophy | Moonman ⓘ |
| hasOfficialWebsite | https://www.mtv.com/vma ⓘ |
| hasReputation | one of the most prominent music video awards ⓘ |
| hasSpecialAward |
Global Icon Award
ⓘ
Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award ⓘ |
| inception | 1984 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| location | various cities in the United States ⓘ |
| notableFeature |
live performances by major recording artists
ⓘ
red carpet pre-show ⓘ |
| organizer | MTV ⓘ |
| partOf | MTV award shows ⓘ |
| presentedBy | MTV ⓘ |
| selectionProcess | combination of industry voting and fan voting ⓘ |
| trophyOfficialName | MTV Moon Person ⓘ |
| typicalEventMonth | August ⓘ |
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 Description of subject: The MTV Video Music Award is a prominent music video accolade presented annually by MTV to honor outstanding achievements in the medium.
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MTV Video Music Awards
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MTV Video Music Awards
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MTV Video Music Award for Best Female Video
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MTV Video Music Award for Best Hip-Hop Video
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MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year
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this entity surface form:
MTV Video Music Awards