KIRO-TV
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KIRO-TV is a Seattle-based television station and longtime CBS affiliate known for its local news coverage and regional programming in the Pacific Northwest.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| KIRO-TV canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7171218 — 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: KIRO-TV Context triple: [Mary Maxwell Gates, boardMemberOf, KIRO-TV]
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A.
KPTK-AM Seattle
KPTK-AM Seattle was a progressive talk radio station in Seattle, Washington, known for airing liberal political programming and syndicated hosts.
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B.
KCTS-TV
KCTS-TV is a Seattle-based public television station best known for producing educational programs such as the science show "Bill Nye the Science Guy."
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C.
KTHV
KTHV is a television station based in Little Rock, Arkansas, that serves as the local CBS affiliate.
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D.
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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E.
KTVU
KTVU is a major television station serving the San Francisco Bay Area, known primarily as the local Fox network 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: KIRO-TV Target entity description: KIRO-TV is a Seattle-based television station and longtime CBS affiliate known for its local news coverage and regional programming in the Pacific Northwest.
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A.
KPTK-AM Seattle
KPTK-AM Seattle was a progressive talk radio station in Seattle, Washington, known for airing liberal political programming and syndicated hosts.
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B.
KCTS-TV
KCTS-TV is a Seattle-based public television station best known for producing educational programs such as the science show "Bill Nye the Science Guy."
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C.
KTHV
KTHV is a television station based in Little Rock, Arkansas, that serves as the local CBS affiliate.
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D.
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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E.
KTVU
KTVU is a major television station serving the San Francisco Bay Area, known primarily as the local Fox network affiliate.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
CBS affiliate
ⓘ
broadcast television station ⓘ television station ⓘ |
| affiliationStatus | longtime CBS affiliate ⓘ |
| broadcastArea | Seattle–Tacoma market NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| callSign | KIRO-TV NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| city | Seattle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contentFocus |
local news
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regional news ⓘ traffic coverage ⓘ weather coverage ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| genre |
news broadcasting
ⓘ
television broadcasting ⓘ |
| knownFor |
local news coverage
ⓘ
regional programming ⓘ |
| languageOfBroadcast | English ⓘ |
| market | Seattle television market NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mediaType | television ⓘ |
| medium | over-the-air television ⓘ |
| networkAffiliation | CBS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ownershipStatus | commercial broadcaster ⓘ |
| programmingType |
entertainment
ⓘ
news ⓘ public affairs ⓘ sports ⓘ |
| regionServed | Pacific Northwest ⓘ |
| serviceArea |
Pacific Northwest
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Western Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Washington ⓘ |
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: KIRO-TV Description of subject: KIRO-TV is a Seattle-based television station and longtime CBS affiliate known for its local news coverage and regional programming in the Pacific Northwest.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.