KICU-TV
E331312
KICU-TV is a television station in the San Francisco Bay Area that operates as an independent outlet alongside the market’s Fox affiliate.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| KICU-TV canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3149659 — 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: KICU-TV Context triple: [Fox Television Stations, ownsStation, KICU-TV]
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A.
KING-TV
KING-TV is a Seattle-based NBC-affiliated television station known for its local news coverage and for originating popular educational programs such as "Bill Nye the Science Guy."
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B.
DZAQ-TV
DZAQ-TV was the pioneering television station in the Philippines, marking the birth of Philippine television broadcasting.
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C.
KENW-TV
KENW-TV is a public television station in eastern New Mexico that serves as a regional PBS affiliate and broadcast outlet for Eastern New Mexico University.
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D.
CJMT-DT Toronto
CJMT-DT Toronto is a Canadian multicultural television station serving the Greater Toronto Area and operating as part of the Citytv network.
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E.
KVEA
KVEA is a Spanish-language television station serving the Los Angeles area and operating as part of the Telemundo network.
- 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: KICU-TV Target entity description: KICU-TV is a television station in the San Francisco Bay Area that operates as an independent outlet alongside the market’s Fox affiliate.
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A.
KING-TV
KING-TV is a Seattle-based NBC-affiliated television station known for its local news coverage and for originating popular educational programs such as "Bill Nye the Science Guy."
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B.
DZAQ-TV
DZAQ-TV was the pioneering television station in the Philippines, marking the birth of Philippine television broadcasting.
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C.
KENW-TV
KENW-TV is a public television station in eastern New Mexico that serves as a regional PBS affiliate and broadcast outlet for Eastern New Mexico University.
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D.
CJMT-DT Toronto
CJMT-DT Toronto is a Canadian multicultural television station serving the Greater Toronto Area and operating as part of the Citytv network.
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E.
KVEA
KVEA is a Spanish-language television station serving the Los Angeles area and operating as part of the Telemundo network.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
independent television station
ⓘ
television station ⓘ |
| branding |
KTVU
ⓘ
surface form:
KTVU Plus
|
| broadcastStandard | ATSC ⓘ |
| callSignChange | KGSC-TV to KICU-TV ⓘ |
| callSignChangeDate | 1981 ⓘ |
| callsignMeaning | “ICU” (phonetic for “I see you”) ⓘ |
| carriedSports |
Oakland Athletics
ⓘ
surface form:
Oakland Athletics (former local telecasts)
San Jose Sharks ⓘ
surface form:
San Jose Sharks (former local telecasts)
|
| cityOfLicense |
San Jose
ⓘ
surface form:
San Jose, California
|
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countrySubdivision |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
|
| digitalChannel | 36 ⓘ |
| digitalOnlyTransitionDate | June 12, 2009 ⓘ |
| dmaRankContext | Top-10 U.S. television market (San Francisco–Oakland–San Jose) ⓘ |
| facilityId | 58535 ⓘ |
| formerAffiliation |
Shop at Home Network
ⓘ
Spanish International Network ⓘ
surface form:
Spanish International Network (early years, partial)
United Paramount Network ⓘ |
| formerAnalogChannel | 36 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| licensedToServe |
San Jose
ⓘ
surface form:
San Jose, California
|
| licensingAuthority | Federal Communications Commission ⓘ |
| market |
San Francisco Bay Area
ⓘ
surface form:
San Francisco–Oakland–San Jose television market
|
| networkAffiliation | independent ⓘ |
| originalCallsign |
KBSC-TV
ⓘ
surface form:
KGSC-TV
|
| originalSignOnDate | October 25, 1961 ⓘ |
| owner | Fox Television Stations ⓘ |
| pictureFormat |
480i SDTV (subchannels)
ⓘ
720p HDTV ⓘ |
| programmingType |
general entertainment
ⓘ
local news ⓘ movies ⓘ sports programming ⓘ syndicated series ⓘ |
| serves | San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ |
| sharesFacilitiesWith | KTVU ⓘ |
| sisterStation | KTVU ⓘ |
| state |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
|
| studioLocation |
Oakland
ⓘ
surface form:
Oakland, California
|
| timeZone | Pacific Time Zone ⓘ |
| transmitterLocation | Monument Peak, Milpitas, California ⓘ |
| virtualChannel | 36 ⓘ |
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: KICU-TV Description of subject: KICU-TV is a television station in the San Francisco Bay Area that operates as an independent outlet alongside the market’s Fox affiliate.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.