World News Now
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World News Now is an overnight American television news program on ABC known for its offbeat, informal style and coverage of national and international stories.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| World News Now canonical | 1 |
| World News Now (special broadcasts) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2136719 — 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: World News Now Context triple: [T. J. Holmes, notableWork, World News Now]
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A.
Wikinews
Wikinews is a free, collaboratively written online news source that is part of the Wikimedia family of projects.
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B.
News International
News International was a major British newspaper publishing company and subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, known for owning titles such as The Times, The Sunday Times, and the now-defunct News of the World.
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C.
Yahoo News
Yahoo News is a major online news and media platform providing global and local coverage across politics, business, entertainment, and more as part of the Yahoo digital ecosystem.
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D.
World News Tonight
World News Tonight is ABC News’ flagship evening television newscast, providing national and international news coverage to American audiences.
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E.
CNN2
CNN2 was the original name of HLN, a U.S. cable news channel that focused on headline news and brief, continuously updated reports.
- 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: World News Now Target entity description: World News Now is an overnight American television news program on ABC known for its offbeat, informal style and coverage of national and international stories.
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A.
Wikinews
Wikinews is a free, collaboratively written online news source that is part of the Wikimedia family of projects.
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B.
News International
News International was a major British newspaper publishing company and subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, known for owning titles such as The Times, The Sunday Times, and the now-defunct News of the World.
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C.
Yahoo News
Yahoo News is a major online news and media platform providing global and local coverage across politics, business, entertainment, and more as part of the Yahoo digital ecosystem.
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D.
World News Tonight
World News Tonight is ABC News’ flagship evening television newscast, providing national and international news coverage to American audiences.
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E.
CNN2
CNN2 was the original name of HLN, a U.S. cable news channel that focused on headline news and brief, continuously updated reports.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American television series
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television news program ⓘ |
| broadcastOn | ABC television network ⓘ |
| broadcastType | network television ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| covers |
international news
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national news ⓘ |
| distribution | U.S. broadcast television ⓘ |
| format | overnight news program ⓘ |
| genre | news program ⓘ |
| hasAudience | United States viewers ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
informal banter between anchors
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unconventional presentation style ⓘ use of humor ⓘ |
| hasFormatElement |
anchor desk
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field reports ⓘ live updates ⓘ video packages ⓘ |
| hasSegment |
feature stories
ⓘ
news headlines ⓘ quirky news items ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | ABC ⓘ |
| producedBy | ABC News division ⓘ |
| productionCompany | ABC News ⓘ |
| style |
informal
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offbeat ⓘ |
| subject |
breaking news
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current events ⓘ human-interest stories ⓘ |
| targetAudience | late-night viewers ⓘ |
| timeSlot | overnight hours ⓘ |
| typicalRuntime | approximately 2 hours per night ⓘ |
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: World News Now Description of subject: World News Now is an overnight American television news program on ABC known for its offbeat, informal style and coverage of national and international stories.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: World News Now