Westinghouse Broadcasting Company
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Westinghouse Broadcasting Company was a major American radio and television broadcasting group that operated numerous stations and helped shape the development of commercial broadcasting in the United States.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Westinghouse Broadcasting | 11 |
| Westinghouse Broadcasting Company canonical | 4 |
| Westinghouse Broadcasting International | 1 |
| Westinghouse Broadcasting radio group | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T775807 — 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: Westinghouse Broadcasting Company Context triple: [Westinghouse Electric Corporation, owned, Westinghouse Broadcasting Company]
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A.
Turner Broadcasting System
Turner Broadcasting System is a major American media company best known for operating cable television networks such as CNN, TBS, and TNT.
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B.
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is a major U.S. commercial television network known for its nationwide programming in news, entertainment, and sports.
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C.
Warner Communications
Warner Communications was a major American media and entertainment conglomerate that became a core component of the later Time Warner corporation.
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D.
Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Broadcasting Company is a major American television network known for its prime-time entertainment programming, including hit series, sports broadcasts, and news.
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E.
Radio Corporation of America
Radio Corporation of America was a major American electronics and communications conglomerate best known for pioneering radio and television technology and broadcasting throughout the 20th century.
- 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: Westinghouse Broadcasting Company Target entity description: Westinghouse Broadcasting Company was a major American radio and television broadcasting group that operated numerous stations and helped shape the development of commercial broadcasting in the United States.
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A.
Turner Broadcasting System
Turner Broadcasting System is a major American media company best known for operating cable television networks such as CNN, TBS, and TNT.
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B.
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is a major U.S. commercial television network known for its nationwide programming in news, entertainment, and sports.
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C.
Warner Communications
Warner Communications was a major American media and entertainment conglomerate that became a core component of the later Time Warner corporation.
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D.
Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Broadcasting Company is a major American television network known for its prime-time entertainment programming, including hit series, sports broadcasts, and news.
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E.
Radio Corporation of America
Radio Corporation of America was a major American electronics and communications conglomerate best known for pioneering radio and television technology and broadcasting throughout the 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
broadcasting company
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radio network operator ⓘ television network operator ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Group W
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Westinghouse Broadcasting Company ⓘ
surface form:
Westinghouse Broadcasting
|
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| dissolvedInto |
Columbia Broadcasting System
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surface form:
CBS Inc.
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| foundedBy | Westinghouse Electric Corporation ⓘ |
| genre | commercial broadcasting ⓘ |
| hasPart |
owned-and-operated radio stations
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owned-and-operated television stations ⓘ production division ⓘ syndication division ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| industry |
broadcasting
ⓘ
radio broadcasting ⓘ television broadcasting ⓘ |
| influenced |
commercial radio broadcasting in the United States
ⓘ
commercial television broadcasting in the United States ⓘ |
| locationCountry |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| notableWork | development of commercial broadcasting in the United States ⓘ |
| operated |
cable television channels
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radio stations ⓘ syndication operations ⓘ television stations ⓘ |
| owned |
Group W Productions
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Group W Satellite Communications ⓘ |
| ownedBy | Westinghouse Electric Corporation ⓘ |
| ownedStation |
KDKA (AM)
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KDKA-FM ⓘ KDKA-TV ⓘ KPIX-TV ⓘ KYW (AM) ⓘ KYW-TV ⓘ WBZ (AM) ⓘ WBZ-TV ⓘ WINS (AM) ⓘ WJZ-TV ⓘ WMAQ (AM) ⓘ
surface form:
WMAQ (historical periods)
|
| parentOrganization | Westinghouse Electric Corporation ⓘ |
| partOf | American commercial broadcasting industry ⓘ |
| serviceArea |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| significantEvent |
Group W
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surface form:
became known as Group W in branding and corporate identity
developed syndicated programming for national distribution ⓘ engaged in station swaps with NBC involving KYW and other stations ⓘ expanded into television broadcasting after World War II ⓘ participated in early development of network radio in the United States ⓘ |
| successor |
CBS Corporation
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surface form:
CBS Corporation (post‑merger broadcasting operations)
|
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: Westinghouse Broadcasting Company Description of subject: Westinghouse Broadcasting Company was a major American radio and television broadcasting group that operated numerous stations and helped shape the development of commercial broadcasting in the United States.
Referenced by (17)
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Westinghouse Broadcasting
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Westinghouse Broadcasting International
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Westinghouse Broadcasting
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Westinghouse Broadcasting
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Westinghouse Broadcasting radio group
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