WSAW-TV
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WSAW-TV is a local television station serving the Wausau, Wisconsin area, providing news, weather, and entertainment programming to regional viewers.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| WSAW-TV canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10496851 — 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: WSAW-TV Context triple: [Wausau, Wisconsin, hasMedia, WSAW-TV]
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A.
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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B.
WNAC-TV
WNAC-TV was a Boston-based television station that served as a major network affiliate and broadcast outlet in New England during much of the 20th century.
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C.
WAAY-TV
WAAY-TV is a television station based in Huntsville, Alabama, known for its local news and sports broadcasting.
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D.
KSWB-TV
KSWB-TV is a television station serving the San Diego, California market, known primarily as the local Fox network affiliate.
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E.
WPWR-TV
WPWR-TV is a Chicago-area television station that serves as a MyNetworkTV affiliate and is part of the Fox Television Stations group.
- 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: WSAW-TV Target entity description: WSAW-TV is a local television station serving the Wausau, Wisconsin area, providing news, weather, and entertainment programming to regional viewers.
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A.
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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B.
WNAC-TV
WNAC-TV was a Boston-based television station that served as a major network affiliate and broadcast outlet in New England during much of the 20th century.
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C.
WAAY-TV
WAAY-TV is a television station based in Huntsville, Alabama, known for its local news and sports broadcasting.
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D.
KSWB-TV
KSWB-TV is a television station serving the San Diego, California market, known primarily as the local Fox network affiliate.
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E.
WPWR-TV
WPWR-TV is a Chicago-area television station that serves as a MyNetworkTV affiliate and is part of the Fox Television Stations group.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
CBS-affiliated television station
ⓘ
television station ⓘ |
| abbreviation | WSAW NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| branding | NewsChannel 7 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| broadcastFrequencyBand | UHF ⓘ |
| broadcastStandard | ATSC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| callsignMeaning | WauSau Wausau NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cityServed | Wausau, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| coverageArea |
Wausau–Rhinelander DMA
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
north-central Wisconsin ⓘ |
| digitalChannel | 7 ⓘ |
| facilityId | 6863 ⓘ |
| firstAirDate | 1954-10-23 ⓘ |
| formerCallsign | WSAU-TV NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formerCallsignPeriod | 1954–1981 ⓘ |
| founded | 1954 ⓘ |
| hasNewsBrand | NewsChannel 7 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSubchannel | WSAW-DT2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.wsaw.com/ ⓘ |
| isCommercialStation | true ⓘ |
| languageOfBroadcast | English ⓘ |
| licensee | Gray Television Licensee, LLC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| marketServed | Wausau–Rhinelander television market NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mediaType | broadcast television ⓘ |
| networkAffiliation |
CBS
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
MyNetworkTV NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| offersService |
entertainment programming
ⓘ
local news ⓘ sports coverage ⓘ weather forecasts ⓘ |
| owner | Gray Television NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| parentCompany | Gray Television NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| programmingType |
local television news
ⓘ
network programming ⓘ syndicated programming ⓘ |
| regulatoryAuthority | Federal Communications Commission NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servesCommunity |
Marathon County, Wisconsin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Wausau, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sisterStation |
WSAW-DT2
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
WZAW-LD NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Wisconsin ⓘ |
| studioLocation | Wausau, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| transmissionType | digital television ⓘ |
| transmitterLocation | Rib Mountain, Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| virtualChannel | 7 ⓘ |
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: WSAW-TV Description of subject: WSAW-TV is a local television station serving the Wausau, Wisconsin area, providing news, weather, and entertainment programming to regional viewers.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.