Discovery Communications (former headquarters)
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Discovery Communications (former headquarters) is the former main office complex of the global media company Discovery, Inc., located in downtown Silver Spring, Maryland.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Discovery Communications | 2 |
| Discovery Communications (former headquarters) canonical | 1 |
| Discovery Communications headquarters | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T959538 — 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: Discovery Communications (former headquarters) Context triple: [Silver Spring, Maryland, hasMediaOrganization, Discovery Communications (former headquarters)]
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A.
Discovery, Inc. (regional operations)
Discovery, Inc. (regional operations) is the regional branch of the global media and entertainment company Discovery, Inc., overseeing local television and content operations from Knoxville, Tennessee.
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B.
Turner Broadcasting System
Turner Broadcasting System is a major American media company best known for operating cable television networks such as CNN, TBS, and TNT.
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C.
Fox Corporation
Fox Corporation is a major American media company that owns the Fox broadcast network and various television stations and cable channels.
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D.
CBS Corporation
CBS Corporation was a major American mass media conglomerate best known for owning the CBS television network and various broadcasting and entertainment assets.
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E.
21st Century Fox
21st Century Fox was a major American multinational mass media corporation that owned film and television assets including the 20th Century Fox studio before most of its entertainment properties were acquired by The Walt Disney Company in 2019.
- 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: Discovery Communications (former headquarters) Target entity description: Discovery Communications (former headquarters) is the former main office complex of the global media company Discovery, Inc., located in downtown Silver Spring, Maryland.
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A.
Discovery, Inc. (regional operations)
Discovery, Inc. (regional operations) is the regional branch of the global media and entertainment company Discovery, Inc., overseeing local television and content operations from Knoxville, Tennessee.
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B.
Turner Broadcasting System
Turner Broadcasting System is a major American media company best known for operating cable television networks such as CNN, TBS, and TNT.
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C.
Fox Corporation
Fox Corporation is a major American media company that owns the Fox broadcast network and various television stations and cable channels.
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D.
CBS Corporation
CBS Corporation was a major American mass media conglomerate best known for owning the CBS television network and various broadcasting and entertainment assets.
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E.
21st Century Fox
21st Century Fox was a major American multinational mass media corporation that owned film and television assets including the 20th Century Fox studio before most of its entertainment properties were acquired by The Walt Disney Company in 2019.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
corporate headquarters
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office building ⓘ |
| associatedWithIndustry |
media
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television broadcasting ⓘ |
| buildingType |
commercial building
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office complex ⓘ |
| city |
Silver Spring, Maryland
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surface form:
Silver Spring
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| coordinateRegion |
Silver Spring, Maryland
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surface form:
Downtown Silver Spring business district
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| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| county |
Montgomery County
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surface form:
Montgomery County, Maryland
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| formerHeadquartersOf |
Discovery Communications (former headquarters)
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Discovery Communications
Discovery, Inc. ⓘ |
| hasName |
Discovery Communications (former headquarters)
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Discovery Communications headquarters
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| locatedIn |
Silver Spring, Maryland
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United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
Silver Spring, Maryland ⓘ
surface form:
downtown Silver Spring
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| locatedInMetropolitanArea |
Washington metropolitan area
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surface form:
Washington, D.C. metropolitan area
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| notableFor | serving as the main office complex of Discovery, Inc. ⓘ |
| occupant |
Discovery, Inc.
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surface form:
Discovery Communications
Discovery, Inc. ⓘ |
| openingPurpose | corporate headquarters for Discovery Communications ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Discovery, Inc. ⓘ |
| primaryFunction | administrative center for Discovery, Inc. ⓘ |
| significance | major employer presence in downtown Silver Spring ⓘ |
| state | Maryland ⓘ |
| status | former headquarters ⓘ |
| streetAddress | One Discovery Place ⓘ |
| use |
broadcasting offices
ⓘ
corporate offices ⓘ office ⓘ |
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: Discovery Communications (former headquarters) Description of subject: Discovery Communications (former headquarters) is the former main office complex of the global media company Discovery, Inc., located in downtown Silver Spring, Maryland.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Discovery Building (former Discovery Communications headquarters)
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occupant
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Discovery Communications (former headquarters)
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subject surface form:
Discovery Building
this entity surface form:
Discovery Communications
Discovery Communications (former headquarters)
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formerHeadquartersOf
→
Discovery Communications (former headquarters)
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Discovery Communications
Discovery Communications (former headquarters)
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hasName
→
Discovery Communications (former headquarters)
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Discovery Communications headquarters