ATSC
E37725
broadcasting standard
digital television broadcasting standard
digital television standard
next-generation television standard
television standard
ATSC (Advanced Television Systems Committee) is a digital television broadcasting standard used primarily in North America for over-the-air high-definition TV transmission.
All labels observed (11)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| ATSC canonical | 75 |
| ATSC 1.0 | 2 |
| Advanced Television Systems Committee | 2 |
| Advanced Television Systems Committee, Inc. | 2 |
| 8VSB | 1 |
| ATSC A/153 | 1 |
| ATSC A/53 | 1 |
| ATSC A/65 | 1 |
| ATSC A/72 | 1 |
| ATSC digital television audio | 1 |
| ATSC digital television standard | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T290813 — 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: ATSC Context triple: [Bluefield–Beckley–Oak Hill television market, hasBroadcastStandard, ATSC]
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A.
SMPTE ST 2059
SMPTE ST 2059 is a professional media industry standard that defines how to use IEEE 1588 Precision Time Protocol to synchronize clocks and signals across IP-based audio, video, and broadcast systems.
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B.
NTSC color television standard
The NTSC color television standard is an analog broadcast system developed in the United States that defined how color video signals were encoded and transmitted for decades of North American television.
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C.
NAB
NAB is the commonly used abbreviation for the New American Bible, a Catholic English translation of the Bible widely used in the United States.
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D.
ABC Owned Television Stations
ABC Owned Television Stations is a group of local broadcast TV stations in major U.S. markets that are directly owned and operated by the American Broadcasting Company.
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E.
ARIB
ARIB (Association of Radio Industries and Businesses) is a Japanese standards organization that develops and promotes technical standards for radio and telecommunications systems.
- 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: ATSC Target entity description: ATSC (Advanced Television Systems Committee) is a digital television broadcasting standard used primarily in North America for over-the-air high-definition TV transmission.
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A.
SMPTE ST 2059
SMPTE ST 2059 is a professional media industry standard that defines how to use IEEE 1588 Precision Time Protocol to synchronize clocks and signals across IP-based audio, video, and broadcast systems.
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B.
NTSC color television standard
The NTSC color television standard is an analog broadcast system developed in the United States that defined how color video signals were encoded and transmitted for decades of North American television.
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C.
NAB
NAB is the commonly used abbreviation for the New American Bible, a Catholic English translation of the Bible widely used in the United States.
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D.
ABC Owned Television Stations
ABC Owned Television Stations is a group of local broadcast TV stations in major U.S. markets that are directly owned and operated by the American Broadcasting Company.
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E.
ARIB
ARIB (Association of Radio Industries and Businesses) is a Japanese standards organization that develops and promotes technical standards for radio and telecommunications systems.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
broadcasting standard
ⓘ
digital television broadcasting standard ⓘ digital television standard ⓘ next-generation television standard ⓘ television standard ⓘ |
| abbreviation | ATSC self-link ⓘ |
| developedBy |
ATSC
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Advanced Television Systems Committee, Inc.
|
| fullName |
ATSC
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Advanced Television Systems Committee
|
| includesStandard |
ATSC 3.0
ⓘ
ATSC self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
ATSC A/153
ATSC self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
ATSC A/53
ATSC self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
ATSC A/65
ATSC self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
ATSC A/72
|
| replaced |
NTSC color television standard
ⓘ
surface form:
NTSC
|
| standardizedBy |
ATSC
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Advanced Television Systems Committee, Inc.
|
| supports |
4K resolution
ⓘ
5.1 surround sound ⓘ Dolby Digital ⓘ
surface form:
Dolby Digital audio
Ultra High Definition television ⓘ advanced emergency alerting ⓘ high dynamic range video ⓘ high-definition television ⓘ hybrid broadcast-broadband services ⓘ interlaced video ⓘ multichannel audio ⓘ progressive scan video ⓘ standard-definition television ⓘ |
| usedFor |
digital television broadcasting
ⓘ
high-definition television transmission ⓘ over-the-air television transmission ⓘ |
| usedInRegion |
Canada
ⓘ
Costa Rica ⓘ Dominican Republic ⓘ El Salvador ⓘ Guatemala ⓘ Honduras ⓘ Mexico ⓘ North America ⓘ Puerto Rico ⓘ South Korea ⓘ U.S. territories ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| usesCompression |
Dolby Digital
ⓘ
surface form:
Dolby Digital audio
MPEG ⓘ
surface form:
MPEG-2 audio
MPEG-2 video ⓘ MPEG ⓘ
surface form:
MPEG-2 video
|
| usesModulation |
ATSC
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
8VSB
8VSB ⓘ OFDM ⓘ |
| versionOf |
ATSC
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
ATSC 1.0
|
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: ATSC Description of subject: ATSC (Advanced Television Systems Committee) is a digital television broadcasting standard used primarily in North America for over-the-air high-definition TV transmission.
Referenced by (88)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
ATSC digital television standard
subject surface form:
Decades