WABI-TV
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WABI-TV is a long-running CBS-affiliated television station serving the Bangor, Maine market with local news, weather, and entertainment programming.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2081662 — 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: WABI-TV Context triple: [Bangor television market, hasNetworkAffiliate, WABI-TV]
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A.
WLNY-TV
WLNY-TV is a New York-area independent television station that operates as a sister outlet to CBS flagship WCBS-TV, airing a mix of syndicated programming and locally focused content.
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B.
WNYE-TV
WNYE-TV is a non-commercial educational television station serving the New York City area, operated by NYC Media and known for its locally focused and multicultural programming.
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C.
WAFF
WAFF is the West Asian Football Federation, the regional governing body for football in West Asia under the Asian Football Confederation.
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D.
WLWT
WLWT is a Cincinnati-based television station that serves as a major local NBC affiliate in the United States.
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E.
WTN
WTN is the IATA airport code for RAF Waddington, a Royal Air Force station in Lincolnshire, England.
- 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: WABI-TV Target entity description: WABI-TV is a long-running CBS-affiliated television station serving the Bangor, Maine market with local news, weather, and entertainment programming.
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A.
WLNY-TV
WLNY-TV is a New York-area independent television station that operates as a sister outlet to CBS flagship WCBS-TV, airing a mix of syndicated programming and locally focused content.
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B.
WNYE-TV
WNYE-TV is a non-commercial educational television station serving the New York City area, operated by NYC Media and known for its locally focused and multicultural programming.
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C.
WAFF
WAFF is the West Asian Football Federation, the regional governing body for football in West Asia under the Asian Football Confederation.
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D.
WLWT
WLWT is a Cincinnati-based television station that serves as a major local NBC affiliate in the United States.
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E.
WTN
WTN is the IATA airport code for RAF Waddington, a Royal Air Force station in Lincolnshire, England.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
CBS affiliate
ⓘ
television station ⓘ |
| broadcastMedium | television ⓘ |
| cityServed | Bangor, Maine ⓘ |
| contentFocus |
community events
ⓘ
local news coverage ⓘ sports coverage ⓘ weather forecasts ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| distributionPlatform |
cable television
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online streaming ⓘ over-the-air broadcast ⓘ satellite television ⓘ |
| genre |
news broadcasting
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television entertainment ⓘ |
| hasFormat | high-definition television ⓘ |
| hasLocalNewsOperation | yes ⓘ |
| hasSportsDepartment | yes ⓘ |
| hasWeatherDepartment | yes ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Bangor television market
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surface form:
Bangor media market
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| marketServed | Bangor television market ⓘ |
| mediaType | broadcast television ⓘ |
| networkAffiliation | CBS ⓘ |
| primaryLanguage | English ⓘ |
| programmingType |
entertainment programming
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local news ⓘ weather ⓘ |
| serviceArea |
Bangor metropolitan area
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eastern Maine ⓘ |
| state | Maine ⓘ |
| targetAudience | viewers in Bangor, Maine ⓘ |
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: WABI-TV Description of subject: WABI-TV is a long-running CBS-affiliated television station serving the Bangor, Maine market with local news, weather, and entertainment programming.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
WABI-DT2