Shaw Communications
E156243
Shaw Communications is a Canadian telecommunications company that provides cable television, internet, and phone services, primarily in Western Canada.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shaw Communications canonical | 5 |
| Shaw Cablesystems | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1359428 — 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: Shaw Communications Context triple: [Shaw Centre, namedAfter, Shaw Communications]
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A.
Rogers Communications
Rogers Communications is a major Canadian telecommunications and media company providing wireless, cable, internet, and broadcasting services nationwide.
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B.
Charter Communications
Charter Communications is a major American telecommunications and mass media company best known for operating the Spectrum brand of cable television, internet, and phone services.
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C.
Time Warner Cable
Time Warner Cable was a major American cable television and broadband internet service provider that operated independently until its acquisition by Charter Communications in 2016.
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D.
Bell Canada
Bell Canada is a major Canadian telecommunications company providing phone, internet, and television services nationwide.
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E.
Liberty Global
Liberty Global is a multinational telecommunications and television company that operates cable, broadband, and media services across Europe and other regions.
- 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: Shaw Communications Target entity description: Shaw Communications is a Canadian telecommunications company that provides cable television, internet, and phone services, primarily in Western Canada.
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A.
Rogers Communications
Rogers Communications is a major Canadian telecommunications and media company providing wireless, cable, internet, and broadcasting services nationwide.
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B.
Charter Communications
Charter Communications is a major American telecommunications and mass media company best known for operating the Spectrum brand of cable television, internet, and phone services.
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C.
Time Warner Cable
Time Warner Cable was a major American cable television and broadband internet service provider that operated independently until its acquisition by Charter Communications in 2016.
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D.
Bell Canada
Bell Canada is a major Canadian telecommunications company providing phone, internet, and television services nationwide.
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E.
Liberty Global
Liberty Global is a multinational telecommunications and television company that operates cable, broadband, and media services across Europe and other regions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Shaw Communications Description of subject: Shaw Communications is a Canadian telecommunications company that provides cable television, internet, and phone services, primarily in Western Canada.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Shaw Cablesystems