KTRK-TV
E130519
KTRK-TV is a Houston-based television station serving as the local ABC network affiliate.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| KTRK-TV canonical | 5 |
| KHOU-TV (early career) | 1 |
| KTRK-TV "ABC13" (Houston) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1142288 — 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: KTRK-TV Context triple: [ABC Owned Television Stations, owns, KTRK-TV]
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A.
KRLD-TV
KRLD-TV is a Dallas–Fort Worth television station historically known for its local news coverage and role in reporting major events such as the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
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B.
KDFW
KDFW is the ICAO code for Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, a major U.S. air transport hub serving the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area in Texas.
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C.
KRDU
KRDU is the ICAO airport code for Raleigh–Durham International Airport, a major commercial airport serving North Carolina’s Research Triangle region.
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D.
KING-TV
KING-TV is a Seattle-based NBC-affiliated television station known for its local news coverage and for originating popular educational programs such as "Bill Nye the Science Guy."
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E.
Dallas–Fort Worth broadcasters
Dallas–Fort Worth broadcasters are the regional television and radio stations in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex that helped originate and implement the AMBER Alert child abduction emergency notification system.
- 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: KTRK-TV Target entity description: KTRK-TV is a Houston-based television station serving as the local ABC network affiliate.
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A.
KRLD-TV
KRLD-TV is a Dallas–Fort Worth television station historically known for its local news coverage and role in reporting major events such as the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
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B.
KDFW
KDFW is the ICAO code for Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, a major U.S. air transport hub serving the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area in Texas.
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C.
KRDU
KRDU is the ICAO airport code for Raleigh–Durham International Airport, a major commercial airport serving North Carolina’s Research Triangle region.
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D.
KING-TV
KING-TV is a Seattle-based NBC-affiliated television station known for its local news coverage and for originating popular educational programs such as "Bill Nye the Science Guy."
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E.
Dallas–Fort Worth broadcasters
Dallas–Fort Worth broadcasters are the regional television and radio stations in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex that helped originate and implement the AMBER Alert child abduction emergency notification system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
broadcast television network affiliate
ⓘ
television station ⓘ |
| affiliationStatus | owned-and-operated ABC station ⓘ |
| branding |
ABC 13
ⓘ
linked to:
ABC
ABC13 Houston ⓘ |
| broadcastArea | Greater Houston ⓘ |
| broadcastLanguage | English ⓘ |
| broadcastMedium | over-the-air television ⓘ |
| broadcastStandard | ATSC ⓘ |
| callsignMeaning | Television Radio Ke ⓘ |
| city |
Houston, Texas
ⓘ
linked to:
Houston, Texas, United States
|
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| countryOfBroadcast |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| digitalChannel | 32 ⓘ |
| distributionPlatform |
cable television
ⓘ
internet streaming ⓘ satellite television ⓘ |
| facilityType | full-power television station ⓘ |
| formerAnalogChannel | 13 ⓘ |
| genre |
general entertainment broadcasting
ⓘ
news broadcasting ⓘ |
| hasCallsign | KTRK-TV ⓘ |
| licensedToServe |
Houston, Texas
ⓘ
linked to:
Houston, Texas, United States
|
| market | Houston television market ⓘ |
| marketRankContext | major U.S. television market station ⓘ |
| mediaType | television ⓘ |
| networkAffiliation | ABC ⓘ |
| networkAffiliationHistory | ABC affiliate since 1950s ⓘ |
| networkType | terrestrial television network affiliate ⓘ |
| ownedBy | ABC Owned Television Stations ⓘ |
| owner | The Walt Disney Company ⓘ |
| platform |
multichannel television
ⓘ
terrestrial broadcast ⓘ |
| primaryContent |
local news
ⓘ
network programming from ABC ⓘ syndicated television programs ⓘ |
| programmingType | commercial television ⓘ |
| regulatoryAuthority | Federal Communications Commission ⓘ |
| serviceArea |
Houston metropolitan area
ⓘ
Southeast Texas ⓘ |
| state | Texas ⓘ |
| stationClass | digital television station ⓘ |
| timezoneOfBroadcast | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| transmitterLocation | Missouri City, Texas ⓘ |
| virtualChannel | 13 ⓘ |
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: KTRK-TV Description of subject: KTRK-TV is a Houston-based television station serving as the local ABC network affiliate.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: KTRK-TV