2008 MTV Video Music Awards
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The 2008 MTV Video Music Awards was a major annual music awards show that celebrated the year's most popular music videos with live performances, celebrity appearances, and competitive categories broadcast worldwide.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| 2007 MTV Video Music Awards | 1 |
| 2008 MTV Video Music Awards canonical | 1 |
| 2008 VMAs | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3127023 — 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: 2008 MTV Video Music Awards Context triple: [Love Lockdown, performedAt, 2008 MTV Video Music Awards]
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A.
2012 MTV Video Music Awards
The 2012 MTV Video Music Awards was a major annual music awards ceremony hosted by MTV that celebrated the year’s most popular music videos and featured high-profile live performances.
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B.
1984 MTV Video Music Awards
The 1984 MTV Video Music Awards was the inaugural edition of MTV's annual ceremony honoring achievements in music videos, marking the beginning of one of pop culture's most influential award shows.
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C.
MTV Video Music Award
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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D.
MTV award shows
MTV award shows are a series of pop culture-focused ceremonies produced by MTV that honor achievements in music, film, and television with a youthful, often irreverent style.
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E.
2011 Billboard Music Awards
The 2011 Billboard Music Awards was a major music industry awards ceremony held in Las Vegas, honoring the year's top-charting artists and featuring high-profile live performances.
- 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: 2008 MTV Video Music Awards Target entity description: The 2008 MTV Video Music Awards was a major annual music awards show that celebrated the year's most popular music videos with live performances, celebrity appearances, and competitive categories broadcast worldwide.
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A.
2011 MTV Video Music Awards
The 2011 MTV Video Music Awards was a major music awards ceremony honoring the year's most popular music videos, notable for high-profile performances and widely discussed pop culture moments.
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B.
2012 MTV Video Music Awards
The 2012 MTV Video Music Awards was a major annual music awards ceremony hosted by MTV that celebrated the year’s most popular music videos and featured high-profile live performances.
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C.
1984 MTV Video Music Awards
The 1984 MTV Video Music Awards was the inaugural edition of MTV's annual ceremony honoring achievements in music videos, marking the beginning of one of pop culture's most influential award shows.
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D.
MTV Video Music Award
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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E.
MTV award shows
MTV award shows are a series of pop culture-focused ceremonies produced by MTV that honor achievements in music, film, and television with a youthful, often irreverent style.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (69)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
MTV Video Music Awards
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award ceremony ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
2008 MTV Video Music Awards
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surface form:
2008 VMAs
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| broadcastFormat | live television ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countryOfBroadcast |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| date | 2008-09-07 ⓘ |
| executiveProducer | Jesse Ignjatovic ⓘ |
| followedBy | 2009 MTV Video Music Awards ⓘ |
| follows |
2008 MTV Video Music Awards
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
2007 MTV Video Music Awards
|
| genre | music award show ⓘ |
| host | Russell Brand ⓘ |
| location |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
Los Angeles ⓘ Paramount Pictures Studios ⓘ |
| mainLanguage | English ⓘ |
| network | MTV ⓘ |
| notableCategory |
Best Dancing in a Video
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Best Direction in a Video ⓘ Best Female Video ⓘ Best Hip-Hop Video ⓘ Best Male Video ⓘ Best New Artist ⓘ Best Pop Video ⓘ Best Rock Video ⓘ Video of the Year ⓘ |
| notablePerformance |
Britney Spears opening comedy segment
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Christina Aguilera performing "Genie 2.0" and "Keeps Gettin' Better" ⓘ DJ AM and Travis Barker as house DJ and drummer ⓘ Jonas Brothers performing "Lovebug" ⓘ Kanye West performing "Love Lockdown" ⓘ Katy Perry performing "I Kissed a Girl" ⓘ Kid Rock performing "All Summer Long" ⓘ Lil Wayne and Leona Lewis performing "Miss You" ⓘ Lil Wayne performing "A Milli" and "Got Money" ⓘ Lupe Fiasco performing "Superstar" ⓘ Ne-Yo performing "Closer" ⓘ Nelly performing "Body On Me" ⓘ Paramore performing "Misery Business" ⓘ Pink performing "So What" ⓘ Rihanna ⓘ
surface form:
Rihanna performing "Disturbia"
Slipknot performing "Psychosocial" ⓘ T-Pain appearing with multiple artists ⓘ T.I. performing "Whatever You Like" and "Live Your Life" ⓘ The Pussycat Dolls performing "When I Grow Up" ⓘ The Ting Tings performing "Shut Up and Let Me Go" and "That's Not My Name" ⓘ Tokio Hotel performing "Ready, Set, Go!" ⓘ |
| notableWinner |
Britney Spears
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Britney Spears for Best Female Video for "Piece of Me" ⓘ Britney Spears for Best Pop Video for "Piece of Me" ⓘ Britney Spears for Video of the Year for "Piece of Me" ⓘ Chris Brown ⓘ Danity Kane ⓘ Jordin Sparks ⓘ Katy Perry ⓘ Lil Wayne ⓘ Linkin Park ⓘ The Pussycat Dolls ⓘ
surface form:
Pussycat Dolls
T-Pain ⓘ The Ting Tings ⓘ Tokio Hotel ⓘ Tokio Hotel for Best New Artist ⓘ |
| partOfSeries |
MTV Video Music Award
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surface form:
MTV Video Music Awards
|
| presenter | MTV ⓘ |
| producer | Jesse Ignjatovic ⓘ |
| runtime | approximately 150 minutes ⓘ |
| state |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
|
| subject | music videos ⓘ |
| year | 2008 ⓘ |
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: 2008 MTV Video Music Awards Description of subject: The 2008 MTV Video Music Awards was a major annual music awards show that celebrated the year's most popular music videos with live performances, celebrity appearances, and competitive categories broadcast worldwide.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
2008 VMAs
this entity surface form:
2007 MTV Video Music Awards