WCW Monday Nitro
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WCW Monday Nitro was a flagship professional wrestling television program that aired live on TNT from 1995 to 2001 and served as the centerpiece of World Championship Wrestling’s competition with WWE during the “Monday Night Wars.”
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| WCW Monday Nitro canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6889096 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: WCW Monday Nitro Context triple: [World Championship Wrestling, notableProgram, WCW Monday Nitro]
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Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
Total Nonstop Action Wrestling is an American professional wrestling promotion, now known as TNA Wrestling, recognized as a major alternative to WWE and noted for its X Division and innovative match formats.
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WrestleMania VIII
WrestleMania VIII was a 1992 World Wrestling Federation pay-per-view event known for its double main event and being one of the last major early-era showcases for stars like Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage.
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C.
Ultimate Pro Wrestling
Ultimate Pro Wrestling is an independent professional wrestling promotion and training school known for helping launch the careers of future WWE stars such as John Cena.
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D.
WrestleMania VII
WrestleMania VII was a World Wrestling Federation (WWF) pay-per-view event held in 1991, headlined by Hulk Hogan challenging Sgt. Slaughter for the WWF Championship amid a heavily patriotic storyline.
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E.
WWF
WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature) is a leading international conservation organization focused on protecting endangered species, preserving natural habitats, and addressing global environmental challenges such as climate change.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: WCW Monday Nitro Target entity description: WCW Monday Nitro was a flagship professional wrestling television program that aired live on TNT from 1995 to 2001 and served as the centerpiece of World Championship Wrestling’s competition with WWE during the “Monday Night Wars.”
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A.
Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
Total Nonstop Action Wrestling is an American professional wrestling promotion, now known as TNA Wrestling, recognized as a major alternative to WWE and noted for its X Division and innovative match formats.
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B.
WrestleMania VIII
WrestleMania VIII was a 1992 World Wrestling Federation pay-per-view event known for its double main event and being one of the last major early-era showcases for stars like Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage.
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C.
Ultimate Pro Wrestling
Ultimate Pro Wrestling is an independent professional wrestling promotion and training school known for helping launch the careers of future WWE stars such as John Cena.
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D.
WrestleMania VII
WrestleMania VII was a World Wrestling Federation (WWF) pay-per-view event held in 1991, headlined by Hulk Hogan challenging Sgt. Slaughter for the WWF Championship amid a heavily patriotic storyline.
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E.
WWF
WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature) is a leading international conservation organization focused on protecting endangered species, preserving natural habitats, and addressing global environmental challenges such as climate change.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
professional wrestling television program
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television series ⓘ |
| audioFormat | stereo ⓘ |
| broadcastDayOfWeek | Monday ⓘ |
| broadcastFormat | live ⓘ |
| competedIn | Monday Night Wars NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| competedWith | WWE Monday Night Raw NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| creator | Eric Bischoff NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| endYear | 2001 ⓘ |
| featuredCommentator |
Bobby Heenan
NERFINISHED
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Eric Bischoff NERFINISHED ⓘ Larry Zbyszko NERFINISHED ⓘ Mike Tenay NERFINISHED ⓘ Tony Schiavone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuredWrestler |
Booker T
NERFINISHED
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Diamond Dallas Page NERFINISHED ⓘ Goldberg NERFINISHED ⓘ Hulk Hogan NERFINISHED ⓘ Kevin Nash NERFINISHED ⓘ Lex Luger NERFINISHED ⓘ Ric Flair NERFINISHED ⓘ Scott Hall NERFINISHED ⓘ Sting NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| finalAired | 2001-03-26 ⓘ |
| finalEpisodeLocation | Panama City Beach, Florida NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| finalEpisodeTitle | Night of Champions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAired | 1995-09-04 ⓘ |
| flagshipShowOf | World Championship Wrestling NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBy | WCW Monday Night Raw simulcast episode on TNN ⓘ |
| genre |
professional wrestling
ⓘ
sports entertainment ⓘ |
| location |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| networkOwnerDuringRun | Turner Broadcasting System NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAngle |
New World Order invasion
NERFINISHED
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WCW vs nWo storyline NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableSegment | New World Order formation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| openingTheme | Nitro theme ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | TNT NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| parentCompanyOfProducer | Time Warner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | World Championship Wrestling NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| pictureFormat |
NTSC color television standard
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surface form:
NTSC
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| precededBy | WCW Saturday Night NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | World Championship Wrestling NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reasonForEnd | acquisition of WCW assets by WWF (now WWE) ⓘ |
| slogan | Where the Big Boys Play ⓘ |
| startYear | 1995 ⓘ |
| status | ended ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: WCW Monday Nitro Description of subject: WCW Monday Nitro was a flagship professional wrestling television program that aired live on TNT from 1995 to 2001 and served as the centerpiece of World Championship Wrestling’s competition with WWE during the “Monday Night Wars.”
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
WWE Raw