2021 MTV Video Music Awards
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The 2021 MTV Video Music Awards was a major music awards ceremony and live performance event honoring the year's most popular music videos and artists.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| 2021 MTV Video Music Awards canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10244405 — 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: 2021 MTV Video Music Awards Context triple: [Chlöe Bailey, notablePerformance, 2021 MTV Video Music Awards]
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A.
2011 MTV Video Music Awards
The 2011 MTV Video Music Awards was a major music awards ceremony honoring the year's most popular music videos, notable for high-profile performances and widely discussed pop culture moments.
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B.
2016 MTV Video Music Awards
The 2016 MTV Video Music Awards was a major annual music awards ceremony celebrating the year’s most popular and influential music videos, featuring high-profile performances and widely discussed pop culture moments.
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C.
MTV Video Music Awards 2015
The MTV Video Music Awards 2015 was a high-profile annual music video awards ceremony known for its controversial moments, bold performances, and pop culture impact.
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D.
2012 MTV Video Music Awards
The 2012 MTV Video Music Awards was a major annual music awards ceremony hosted by MTV that celebrated the year’s most popular music videos and featured high-profile live performances.
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E.
2010 MTV Video Music Awards
The 2010 MTV Video Music Awards was a major music awards ceremony known for high-profile performances, memorable pop culture moments, and extensive media coverage.
- 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: 2021 MTV Video Music Awards Target entity description: The 2021 MTV Video Music Awards was a major music awards ceremony and live performance event honoring the year's most popular music videos and artists.
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A.
2011 MTV Video Music Awards
The 2011 MTV Video Music Awards was a major music awards ceremony honoring the year's most popular music videos, notable for high-profile performances and widely discussed pop culture moments.
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B.
2016 MTV Video Music Awards
The 2016 MTV Video Music Awards was a major annual music awards ceremony celebrating the year’s most popular and influential music videos, featuring high-profile performances and widely discussed pop culture moments.
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C.
MTV Video Music Awards 2015
The MTV Video Music Awards 2015 was a high-profile annual music video awards ceremony known for its controversial moments, bold performances, and pop culture impact.
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D.
2012 MTV Video Music Awards
The 2012 MTV Video Music Awards was a major annual music awards ceremony hosted by MTV that celebrated the year’s most popular music videos and featured high-profile live performances.
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E.
2010 MTV Video Music Awards
The 2010 MTV Video Music Awards was a major music awards ceremony known for high-profile performances, memorable pop culture moments, and extensive media coverage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
award ceremony
ⓘ
music awards show ⓘ television special ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | 2021 MTV VMAs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardsFor |
music videos
ⓘ
recorded music artists ⓘ |
| broadcastFormat | live television ⓘ |
| city | Brooklyn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| date | 2021-09-12 ⓘ |
| followedBy | 2022 MTV Video Music Awards NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| follows | 2020 MTV Video Music Awards NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | music award show ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
Artist of the Year
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Best Hip-Hop ⓘ Best K-Pop ⓘ Best New Artist ⓘ Best Pop ⓘ Best Rock NERFINISHED ⓘ Song of the Year ⓘ Video of the Year NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| host | Doja Cat NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| location | Barclays Center NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainAward |
Artist of the Year
ⓘ
Best New Artist NERFINISHED ⓘ Song of the Year ⓘ Video of the Year ⓘ |
| network |
BET
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Comedy Central NERFINISHED ⓘ MTV NERFINISHED ⓘ MTV2 NERFINISHED ⓘ The CW NERFINISHED ⓘ VH1 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notablePerformance |
BTS
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Doja Cat NERFINISHED ⓘ Justin Bieber NERFINISHED ⓘ Kacey Musgraves NERFINISHED ⓘ Lil Nas X NERFINISHED ⓘ Machine Gun Kelly NERFINISHED ⓘ Olivia Rodrigo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWinner |
BTS
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Billie Eilish NERFINISHED ⓘ Doja Cat NERFINISHED ⓘ Justin Bieber NERFINISHED ⓘ Lil Nas X NERFINISHED ⓘ Olivia Rodrigo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| organizer | ViacomCBS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | MTV Video Music Awards NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| presentedBy | MTV NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer | MTV Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | New York ⓘ |
| year | 2021 ⓘ |
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: 2021 MTV Video Music Awards Description of subject: The 2021 MTV Video Music Awards was a major music awards ceremony and live performance event honoring the year's most popular music videos and artists.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.