KDKA-TV
E403477
KDKA-TV is a Pittsburgh-based television station and major CBS affiliate known as one of the pioneering commercial TV outlets in the United States.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| KDKA-TV canonical | 3 |
| CBS Pittsburgh | 1 |
| KDKA-TV 2 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3973448 — 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: KDKA-TV Context triple: [Group W, ownedStation, KDKA-TV]
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A.
KDKA (AM)
KDKA (AM) is a historic Pittsburgh radio station widely recognized as one of the first commercially licensed broadcast stations in the United States.
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B.
KDKA-FM
KDKA-FM is a Pittsburgh-based commercial radio station known for its sports talk programming and affiliation with major local sports teams.
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C.
WETA-TV
WETA-TV is a Washington, D.C.–based public television station and major PBS member known for producing flagship national programs such as PBS NewsHour.
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D.
KYW-TV
KYW-TV is a CBS-owned-and-operated television station serving the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania market.
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E.
WETA
WETA is the Water Emergency Transportation Authority, the public agency that oversees and operates ferry services in the San Francisco Bay Area.
- 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: KDKA-TV Target entity description: KDKA-TV is a Pittsburgh-based television station and major CBS affiliate known as one of the pioneering commercial TV outlets in the United States.
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A.
KDKA (AM)
KDKA (AM) is a historic Pittsburgh radio station widely recognized as one of the first commercially licensed broadcast stations in the United States.
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B.
KDKA-FM
KDKA-FM is a Pittsburgh-based commercial radio station known for its sports talk programming and affiliation with major local sports teams.
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C.
WETA-TV
WETA-TV is a Washington, D.C.–based public television station and major PBS member known for producing flagship national programs such as PBS NewsHour.
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D.
KYW-TV
KYW-TV is a CBS-owned-and-operated television station serving the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania market.
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E.
WETA
WETA is the Water Emergency Transportation Authority, the public agency that oversees and operates ferry services in the San Francisco Bay Area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
CBS affiliate
ⓘ
television station ⓘ |
| affiliationHistory | longtime CBS affiliate ⓘ |
| affiliationStatus | primary CBS affiliate ⓘ |
| branding |
KDKA-TV
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
CBS Pittsburgh
KDKA-TV self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
KDKA-TV 2
|
| broadcastArea |
Southwestern Pennsylvania
ⓘ
parts of Ohio ⓘ parts of West Virginia ⓘ |
| broadcastStandard | ATSC ⓘ |
| broadcastType | commercial television ⓘ |
| callSign | KDKA-TV self-link ⓘ |
| callsignMeaning | Derived from historic KDKA radio callsign ⓘ |
| city |
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
ⓘ
surface form:
Pittsburgh
|
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countryOfLicensing |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| digitalChannel | 25 ⓘ |
| digitalTransition | completed U.S. digital television transition ⓘ |
| facilityType | full-power television station ⓘ |
| formerAnalogChannel | 2 ⓘ |
| genre |
general entertainment
ⓘ
news broadcasting ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | among the first commercially licensed TV stations in its region ⓘ |
| isPioneerIn | commercial television broadcasting in the United States ⓘ |
| languageOfBroadcast | English ⓘ |
| licensee |
Columbia Broadcasting System
ⓘ
surface form:
CBS Broadcasting Inc.
|
| market | Pittsburgh television market ⓘ |
| mediaType | television ⓘ |
| networkAffiliation | CBS ⓘ |
| networkOwnedAndOperatedStatus | CBS owned-and-operated station ⓘ |
| notableFor | being one of the earliest commercial television stations in the United States ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
CBS News
ⓘ
surface form:
CBS News and Stations
|
| owner | Paramount Global ⓘ |
| platform |
cable television
ⓘ
online streaming ⓘ over-the-air television ⓘ satellite television ⓘ |
| programmingType |
local news
ⓘ
network programming from CBS ⓘ syndicated television shows ⓘ |
| regulatoryAuthority | Federal Communications Commission ⓘ |
| serves |
Pittsburgh region
ⓘ
surface form:
Pittsburgh metropolitan area
|
| sisterStation |
KDKA (AM)
ⓘ
KDKA-FM ⓘ WPCW ⓘ |
| state | Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| studioLocation | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| transmitterLocation | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| virtualChannel | 2 ⓘ |
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: KDKA-TV Description of subject: KDKA-TV is a Pittsburgh-based television station and major CBS affiliate known as one of the pioneering commercial TV outlets in the United States.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.