20th Television
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20th Television is a major American television production company known for creating and distributing a wide range of popular scripted series for broadcast and streaming platforms.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| 20th Television canonical | 74 |
| 20th Television (syndication arm) | 1 |
| 20th Television (syndication) | 1 |
| 20th Television library | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T246427 — 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: 20th Television Context triple: [The Orville, productionCompany, 20th Television]
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A.
20th Television Animation
20th Television Animation is an American animation studio and division of 20th Television known for producing popular adult animated series for television.
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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 Broadcasting Company
Fox Broadcasting Company is a major American television network known for its prime-time entertainment programming, including hit series, sports broadcasts, and news.
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D.
CBS
CBS is a major American broadcast television network known for airing a wide range of popular news, sports, and entertainment programming nationwide.
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E.
Warner Bros. Television
Warner Bros. Television is a major American television production and distribution studio known for creating numerous popular and critically acclaimed series across broadcast, cable, and streaming platforms.
- 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: 20th Television Target entity description: 20th Television is a major American television production company known for creating and distributing a wide range of popular scripted series for broadcast and streaming platforms.
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A.
20th Television Animation
20th Television Animation is an American animation studio and division of 20th Television known for producing popular adult animated series for television.
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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 Broadcasting Company
Fox Broadcasting Company is a major American television network known for its prime-time entertainment programming, including hit series, sports broadcasts, and news.
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D.
CBS
CBS is a major American broadcast television network known for airing a wide range of popular news, sports, and entertainment programming nationwide.
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E.
Warner Bros. Television
Warner Bros. Television is a major American television production and distribution studio known for creating numerous popular and critically acclaimed series across broadcast, cable, and streaming platforms.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American company
ⓘ
television production company ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
20th Century Fox
ⓘ
surface form:
20th Century Studios
ABC Signature ⓘ FX Productions ⓘ |
| brandOwner | The Walt Disney Company ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| distributes |
television series for broadcast networks
ⓘ
television series for cable networks ⓘ television series for streaming platforms ⓘ |
| distributesTo |
ABC
ⓘ
Disney+ ⓘ Fox ⓘ Hulu ⓘ |
| divisionOf |
Disney Entertainment
ⓘ
surface form:
Disney General Entertainment Content
|
| formerName |
Fox Entertainment
ⓘ
surface form:
20th Century Fox Television
20th Television self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
20th Television (syndication)
|
| hasLogoText | 20th Television self-link ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
Los Angeles ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| industry |
television distribution
ⓘ
television production ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Century City
ⓘ
Fox Studio Lot ⓘ |
| notableWork |
24
ⓘ
American Horror Story ⓘ Empire ⓘ Family Guy ⓘ Futurama ⓘ Glee ⓘ How I Met Your Mother ⓘ Modern Family ⓘ New Girl ⓘ The Simpsons ⓘ This Is Us ⓘ |
| ownedBy | The Walt Disney Company ⓘ |
| ownerChange | acquired by The Walt Disney Company in 2019 through purchase of 21st Century Fox assets ⓘ |
| parentCompany |
Disney Television Studios
ⓘ
The Walt Disney Company ⓘ |
| partOf | Disney Television Studios portfolio ⓘ |
| predecessor |
20th Century Fox
ⓘ
surface form:
20th Century Fox Television
20th Television self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
20th Television (syndication arm)
|
| produces |
animated series
ⓘ
comedy series ⓘ drama series ⓘ scripted television series ⓘ |
| rebranded | 2020 ⓘ |
| regionServed | worldwide ⓘ |
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: 20th Television Description of subject: 20th Television is a major American television production company known for creating and distributing a wide range of popular scripted series for broadcast and streaming platforms.
Referenced by (77)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
20th Television library
subject surface form:
The Resident
subject surface form:
The Last Man on Earth