Start TV
E143364
Start TV is an American digital broadcast television network that primarily airs classic, female-led procedural dramas from the 1980s through the early 2000s.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Start TV canonical | 4 |
| Start TV (on subchannel) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1255433 — 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: Start TV Context triple: [Allen Media Group, owns, Start TV]
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A.
Star TV
Star TV is a major Asian satellite television network known for its broad entertainment and news programming across multiple countries.
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B.
Imagine Television
Imagine Television is the television production division of Imagine Entertainment, known for developing and producing a wide range of scripted and unscripted TV series.
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C.
BT TV
BT TV is a UK-based subscription television service from BT Group that offers live channels, on-demand content, and streaming apps via broadband.
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D.
Ora TV
Ora TV is a digital television network and production company co-founded by Larry King that creates and distributes original online video programming.
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E.
IPTV
IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) is a digital television broadcasting technology that delivers TV content over internet protocol networks instead of traditional terrestrial, satellite, or cable formats.
- 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: Start TV Target entity description: Start TV is an American digital broadcast television network that primarily airs classic, female-led procedural dramas from the 1980s through the early 2000s.
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A.
Star TV
Star TV is a major Asian satellite television network known for its broad entertainment and news programming across multiple countries.
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B.
Imagine Television
Imagine Television is the television production division of Imagine Entertainment, known for developing and producing a wide range of scripted and unscripted TV series.
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C.
BT TV
BT TV is a UK-based subscription television service from BT Group that offers live channels, on-demand content, and streaming apps via broadband.
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D.
Ora TV
Ora TV is a digital television network and production company co-founded by Larry King that creates and distributes original online video programming.
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E.
IPTV
IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) is a digital television broadcasting technology that delivers TV content over internet protocol networks instead of traditional terrestrial, satellite, or cable formats.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
digital broadcast television network
ⓘ
television network ⓘ |
| broadcastArea |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| broadcastFormat | digital ⓘ |
| broadcastMedium | terrestrial television ⓘ |
| contentEraRange | 1980s to early 2000s ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| focusCharacterType | female protagonists ⓘ |
| focusNarrativeType |
crime procedural
ⓘ
legal procedural ⓘ medical procedural ⓘ |
| genre |
classic television
ⓘ
procedural drama ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
female-centric storytelling
ⓘ
nostalgia-focused programming ⓘ rerun-based schedule ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| pictureFormat | standard definition television ⓘ |
| primaryDistribution | over-the-air digital subchannels ⓘ |
| programmingFocus | female-led procedural dramas ⓘ |
| programmingStrategy |
daypart-based scheduling
ⓘ
marathon blocks of series ⓘ |
| programmingType | off-network syndicated series ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
fans of classic television
ⓘ
viewers interested in female-led dramas ⓘ |
| typicalContentType |
scripted series
ⓘ
syndicated reruns ⓘ |
| typicalProgrammingEra |
1980s
ⓘ
1990s ⓘ early 2000s ⓘ |
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: Start TV Description of subject: Start TV is an American digital broadcast television network that primarily airs classic, female-led procedural dramas from the 1980s through the early 2000s.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Start TV