WHAM-TV
E765357
WHAM-TV is a television station based in Rochester, New York, known for its local news and ABC network programming.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| WHAM-TV canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8881371 — 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: WHAM-TV Context triple: [Jeff Glor, employer, WHAM-TV]
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A.
DZAQ-TV
DZAQ-TV was the pioneering television station in the Philippines, marking the birth of Philippine television broadcasting.
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B.
KICU-TV
KICU-TV is a television station in the San Francisco Bay Area that operates as an independent outlet alongside the market’s Fox affiliate.
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C.
CJMT-DT Toronto
CJMT-DT Toronto is a Canadian multicultural television station serving the Greater Toronto Area and operating as part of the Citytv network.
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D.
Foxe Channel
Foxe Channel is a narrow Arctic waterway in northern Canada that links Foxe Basin with the surrounding polar seas and forms part of the Northwest Passage region.
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E.
WSNS-TV
WSNS-TV is a Spanish-language television station in Chicago affiliated with Telemundo and owned by NBCUniversal.
- 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: WHAM-TV Target entity description: WHAM-TV is a television station based in Rochester, New York, known for its local news and ABC network programming.
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A.
DZAQ-TV
DZAQ-TV was the pioneering television station in the Philippines, marking the birth of Philippine television broadcasting.
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B.
KICU-TV
KICU-TV is a television station in the San Francisco Bay Area that operates as an independent outlet alongside the market’s Fox affiliate.
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C.
CJMT-DT Toronto
CJMT-DT Toronto is a Canadian multicultural television station serving the Greater Toronto Area and operating as part of the Citytv network.
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D.
Foxe Channel
Foxe Channel is a narrow Arctic waterway in northern Canada that links Foxe Basin with the surrounding polar seas and forms part of the Northwest Passage region.
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E.
WSNS-TV
WSNS-TV is a Spanish-language television station in Chicago affiliated with Telemundo and owned by NBCUniversal.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
broadcast television station
ⓘ
television station ⓘ |
| broadcastMedium | television ⓘ |
| broadcastsInTimeZone | Eastern Time Zone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| broadcastsLocalNews | yes ⓘ |
| broadcastsNetworkProgramming | yes ⓘ |
| broadcastStandard | digital television ⓘ |
| callsign | WHAM-TV NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cityOfLicense | Rochester, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contentFocus |
local news coverage of Rochester area
ⓘ
national ABC network programming ⓘ regional events ⓘ |
| contentGenre |
entertainment
ⓘ
news ⓘ sports ⓘ weather ⓘ |
| contentType |
entertainment programming
ⓘ
news programming ⓘ public affairs programming ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countryRegion | Northeastern United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countrySubdivision | Monroe County, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributionPlatform |
cable television
ⓘ
satellite television ⓘ streaming ⓘ |
| hasAudience | viewers in Rochester, New York area ⓘ |
| hasCallsignSuffix | TV ⓘ |
| hasFormat | high-definition television ⓘ |
| hasLocalNewsOperation | yes ⓘ |
| hasNewsDepartment | yes ⓘ |
| industry |
broadcasting
ⓘ
mass media ⓘ |
| isCommercialStation | yes ⓘ |
| isFreeToAir | yes ⓘ |
| languageOfBroadcast | English ⓘ |
| location | Rochester, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| marketServed | Rochester, New York television market ⓘ |
| medium | television broadcasting ⓘ |
| mediumType | local television station ⓘ |
| networkAffiliation | ABC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| networkOwnedProgrammingSource | ABC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryAffiliation | ABC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| programmingType |
local news
ⓘ
network programming ⓘ |
| region | Western New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regulatoryDomain | United States broadcast television ⓘ |
| serviceArea | Greater Rochester area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | New York ⓘ |
| transmissionType | over-the-air ⓘ |
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: WHAM-TV Description of subject: WHAM-TV is a television station based in Rochester, New York, known for its local news and ABC network programming.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.