WCSH
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WCSH is a television station serving the Portland, Maine market, known primarily as an NBC affiliate providing local news and network programming.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| WCSH canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9593248 — 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: WCSH Context triple: [WLBZ, sisterStation, WCSH]
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A.
WNSH
WNSH is a New York City-area radio station known for its country music format and association with major broadcasting networks.
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B.
WHDH-TV
WHDH-TV is a Boston-based television station historically known as a major local news outlet and an early employer of prominent journalists such as Tom Brokaw.
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C.
WABI-TV
WABI-TV is a long-running CBS-affiliated television station serving the Bangor, Maine market with local news, weather, and entertainment programming.
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D.
WCBW
WCBW was the original call sign of the New York City television station now known as WCBS-TV, one of the earliest commercial TV stations in the United States.
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E.
WBZ-TV
WBZ-TV is a Boston-based television station that serves as a major local broadcaster and CBS affiliate in the New England region.
- 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: WCSH Target entity description: WCSH is a television station serving the Portland, Maine market, known primarily as an NBC affiliate providing local news and network programming.
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A.
WNSH
WNSH is a New York City-area radio station known for its country music format and association with major broadcasting networks.
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B.
WHDH-TV
WHDH-TV is a Boston-based television station historically known as a major local news outlet and an early employer of prominent journalists such as Tom Brokaw.
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C.
WABI-TV
WABI-TV is a long-running CBS-affiliated television station serving the Bangor, Maine market with local news, weather, and entertainment programming.
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D.
WCBW
WCBW was the original call sign of the New York City television station now known as WCBS-TV, one of the earliest commercial TV stations in the United States.
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E.
WBZ-TV
WBZ-TV is a Boston-based television station that serves as a major local broadcaster and CBS affiliate in the New England region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NBC affiliate
ⓘ
television station ⓘ |
| affiliatedWith | NewsCenterMaine.com NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| affiliationHistory | NBC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| branding | News Center Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| broadcastStandard | ATSC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| callsignMeaning | Congress Square Hotel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cityOfLicense | Portland, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contentGenre |
public affairs programming
ⓘ
sports coverage ⓘ television news ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| digitalChannel | 31 ⓘ |
| digitalSubchannel |
6.1 NBC
ⓘ
6.2 True Crime Network NERFINISHED ⓘ 6.3 Quest ⓘ 6.4 Twist NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| digitalTransition | completed U.S. analog-to-digital transition ⓘ |
| distributionPlatform |
cable television
ⓘ
online streaming ⓘ over-the-air broadcast ⓘ satellite television ⓘ |
| facilityType | full-power television station ⓘ |
| FCCService | DT ⓘ |
| focusesOn | local news coverage for the Portland, Maine area ⓘ |
| formerBranding | WCSH 6 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.newscentermaine.com/ ⓘ |
| licensedToServe | Portland, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| licensee | Tegna Broadcast Holdings, LLC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| marketServed | Portland, Maine television market NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| networkAffiliation | NBC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| newsBrand | News Center Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| owner | Tegna Inc. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryLanguage | English ⓘ |
| programmingType |
local news
ⓘ
network programming ⓘ syndicated programming ⓘ |
| regulatoryAuthority | Federal Communications Commission NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serviceArea |
parts of New Hampshire
ⓘ
southern Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sisterStation | WLBZ NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Maine ⓘ |
| studiosLocation | Congress Square, Portland, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| transmitterLocation | Winn Mountain, Sebago, Maine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| virtualChannel | 6 ⓘ |
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: WCSH Description of subject: WCSH is a television station serving the Portland, Maine market, known primarily as an NBC affiliate providing local news and network programming.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.