KPIX-TV
E403479
KPIX-TV is a CBS-affiliated television station serving the San Francisco Bay Area.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| KPIX-TV canonical | 6 |
| CBS News Bay Area | 1 |
| KPIX 5 | 1 |
| KPIX 5 News | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3973452 — 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: KPIX-TV Context triple: [Group W, ownedStation, KPIX-TV]
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A.
KCRA-TV
KCRA-TV is a television station serving the Sacramento, California market, best known as the region’s long-time NBC affiliate and a major source of local news coverage.
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B.
KTVU
KTVU is a major television station serving the San Francisco Bay Area, known primarily as the local Fox network affiliate.
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C.
KGO-TV
KGO-TV is a major ABC-owned local television station serving the San Francisco Bay Area with news, entertainment, and network programming.
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D.
KSFO
KSFO is the ICAO airport code for San Francisco International Airport, a major international aviation hub serving the San Francisco Bay Area in California.
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E.
KNTV
KNTV is a television station serving the San Francisco Bay Area, operating as the local NBC owned-and-operated affiliate.
- 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: KPIX-TV Target entity description: KPIX-TV is a CBS-affiliated television station serving the San Francisco Bay Area.
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A.
KCRA-TV
KCRA-TV is a television station serving the Sacramento, California market, best known as the region’s long-time NBC affiliate and a major source of local news coverage.
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B.
KTVU
KTVU is a major television station serving the San Francisco Bay Area, known primarily as the local Fox network affiliate.
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C.
KGO-TV
KGO-TV is a major ABC-owned local television station serving the San Francisco Bay Area with news, entertainment, and network programming.
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D.
KSFO
KSFO is the ICAO airport code for San Francisco International Airport, a major international aviation hub serving the San Francisco Bay Area in California.
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E.
KNTV
KNTV is a television station serving the San Francisco Bay Area, operating as the local NBC owned-and-operated affiliate.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
CBS-affiliated television station
ⓘ
television station ⓘ |
| affiliationType | primary affiliation ⓘ |
| branding |
KPIX-TV
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
CBS News Bay Area
KPIX-TV self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
KPIX 5
|
| broadcastArea | Northern California ⓘ |
| broadcastStandard | ATSC ⓘ |
| callsignMeaning | PIX (as in ‘pictures’) with K prefix for stations west of the Mississippi River ⓘ |
| cityOfLicense |
San Francisco
ⓘ
surface form:
San Francisco, California
|
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countrySubdivision |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
|
| digitalChannel | 29 ⓘ |
| digitalTransition | completed ⓘ |
| facilityType | full-power television station ⓘ |
| firstTelevisionStationInMarket | true ⓘ |
| formerAnalogChannel | 5 ⓘ |
| foundingDate | 1948 ⓘ |
| hasCallsign | KPIX-TV self-link ⓘ |
| hasNewsBrandExtension |
CBS News
ⓘ
surface form:
CBS News Bay Area
|
| hasNewscastBrand |
KPIX-TV
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
KPIX 5 News
|
| isOandO | CBS owned-and-operated station ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
CBS Television Stations
ⓘ
surface form:
CBS News and Stations group
|
| languageOfBroadcast | English ⓘ |
| laterNetworkAffiliation | CBS ⓘ |
| launchDate | December 22, 1948 ⓘ |
| licensedToServe |
San Francisco
ⓘ
surface form:
San Francisco, California
|
| market |
San Francisco Bay Area
ⓘ
surface form:
San Francisco–Oakland–San Jose
|
| mediaType | broadcast television ⓘ |
| networkAffiliation | CBS ⓘ |
| originalNetworkAffiliation | DuMont Television Network ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
CBS News
ⓘ
surface form:
CBS News and Stations
|
| owner | Paramount Global ⓘ |
| pictureFormat | 1080i HDTV ⓘ |
| produces |
local newscasts
ⓘ
public affairs programming ⓘ sports programming ⓘ |
| programmingType | commercial television ⓘ |
| regulatoryAuthority | Federal Communications Commission ⓘ |
| serves | San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ |
| servesMetropolitanArea |
San Francisco Bay Area
ⓘ
surface form:
San Francisco–Oakland–San Jose metropolitan area
|
| servesRegion |
San Francisco Bay Area
ⓘ
surface form:
Bay Area
|
| sisterStation | KBCW ⓘ |
| stationClass | DT ⓘ |
| timeZone | Pacific Time Zone ⓘ |
| transmitterLocation | Sutro Tower, San Francisco ⓘ |
| virtualChannel | 5 ⓘ |
| website | https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/ ⓘ |
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: KPIX-TV Description of subject: KPIX-TV is a CBS-affiliated television station serving the San Francisco Bay Area.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
KPIX 5 News