The Texaco Star Theater (radio program)
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The Texaco Star Theater (radio program) was a popular American radio variety show of the 1930s and 1940s, featuring comedy, music, and guest stars under the sponsorship of the Texaco oil company.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Texaco Star Theater (radio program) canonical | 1 |
| The Texaco Star Theater (radio) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12822434 — 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: The Texaco Star Theater (radio program) Context triple: [Texaco Star Theater, basedOn, The Texaco Star Theater (radio program)]
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A.
The Bing Crosby Show (radio)
The Bing Crosby Show (radio) was an American radio program featuring legendary crooner Bing Crosby in music and variety performances during the golden age of radio.
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B.
The Red Skelton Show (radio)
The Red Skelton Show (radio) was a popular American comedy-variety radio program starring comedian Red Skelton, known for its character sketches and slapstick humor during the 1930s and 1940s.
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C.
The Irvin S. Cobb Show
The Irvin S. Cobb Show was a radio program featuring American humorist and author Irvin S. Cobb, known for his witty commentary and storytelling.
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D.
The Hazel Scott Show
The Hazel Scott Show was a pioneering early 1950s American television program featuring virtuoso jazz pianist and singer Hazel Scott, notable as one of the first U.S. network TV shows hosted by a Black woman.
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E.
The Bing Crosby Show
The Bing Crosby Show was an American situation comedy television series starring legendary crooner Bing Crosby and his real-life wife Kathryn Grant, airing in the mid-1960s.
- 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: The Texaco Star Theater (radio program) Target entity description: The Texaco Star Theater (radio program) was a popular American radio variety show of the 1930s and 1940s, featuring comedy, music, and guest stars under the sponsorship of the Texaco oil company.
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A.
The Bing Crosby Show (radio)
The Bing Crosby Show (radio) was an American radio program featuring legendary crooner Bing Crosby in music and variety performances during the golden age of radio.
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B.
The Red Skelton Show (radio)
The Red Skelton Show (radio) was a popular American comedy-variety radio program starring comedian Red Skelton, known for its character sketches and slapstick humor during the 1930s and 1940s.
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C.
The Irvin S. Cobb Show
The Irvin S. Cobb Show was a radio program featuring American humorist and author Irvin S. Cobb, known for his witty commentary and storytelling.
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D.
The Hazel Scott Show
The Hazel Scott Show was a pioneering early 1950s American television program featuring virtuoso jazz pianist and singer Hazel Scott, notable as one of the first U.S. network TV shows hosted by a Black woman.
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E.
The Bing Crosby Show
The Bing Crosby Show was an American situation comedy television series starring legendary crooner Bing Crosby and his real-life wife Kathryn Grant, airing in the mid-1960s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American radio program
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radio variety show ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Texaco Star Theater ⓘ |
| basedIn | New York City ⓘ |
| broadcastFrequency | weekly ⓘ |
| broadcastOn | NBC Radio ⓘ |
| broadcastPeriod |
1930s
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1940s ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| endTime | 1949 ⓘ |
| era | Golden Age of Radio ⓘ |
| featuredContent |
celebrity guest stars
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comedy sketches ⓘ musical performances ⓘ |
| format | variety ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
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music program ⓘ variety show ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium | radio ⓘ |
| notableHost |
Fred Allen
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Milton Berle ⓘ |
| originalNetwork |
NBC Red Network
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linked to:
NBC
|
| predecessor |
The Fire Chief Program
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linked to:
The Fire Chief (radio program)
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| productionCompany | Texaco ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
The Texaco Star Theater (television program)
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linked to:
Texaco Star Theater
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| sponsor |
Texaco
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The Texas Company ⓘ |
| sponsorType | oil company ⓘ |
| startTime | 1938 ⓘ |
| targetAudience | general American audience ⓘ |
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: The Texaco Star Theater (radio program) Description of subject: The Texaco Star Theater (radio program) was a popular American radio variety show of the 1930s and 1940s, featuring comedy, music, and guest stars under the sponsorship of the Texaco oil company.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: The Texaco Star Theater (radio program)