2016 MTV Video Music Awards
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The 2016 MTV Video Music Awards was a major annual music awards ceremony celebrating the year’s most popular and influential music videos, featuring high-profile performances and widely discussed pop culture moments.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| 2016 MTV Video Music Awards canonical | 2 |
| MTV Video Music Awards 2016 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3776653 — 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: 2016 MTV Video Music Awards Context triple: [Fade, musicVideoPremiereEvent, 2016 MTV Video Music Awards]
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A.
2013 MTV Video Music Awards
The 2013 MTV Video Music Awards was a major music awards ceremony best known for high-profile performances and viral moments, including Miley Cyrus and Robin Thicke’s controversial duet.
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B.
2011 MTV Video Music Awards
The 2011 MTV Video Music Awards was a major music awards ceremony honoring the year's most popular music videos, notable for high-profile performances and widely discussed pop culture moments.
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C.
2012 MTV Video Music Awards
The 2012 MTV Video Music Awards was a major annual music awards ceremony hosted by MTV that celebrated the year’s most popular music videos and featured high-profile live performances.
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D.
MTV Video Music Award
The MTV Video Music Award is a prominent music video accolade presented annually by MTV to honor outstanding achievements in the medium.
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E.
2008 MTV Video Music Awards
The 2008 MTV Video Music Awards was a major annual music awards show that celebrated the year's most popular music videos with live performances, celebrity appearances, and competitive categories broadcast worldwide.
- 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: 2016 MTV Video Music Awards Target entity description: The 2016 MTV Video Music Awards was a major annual music awards ceremony celebrating the year’s most popular and influential music videos, featuring high-profile performances and widely discussed pop culture moments.
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A.
2013 MTV Video Music Awards
The 2013 MTV Video Music Awards was a major music awards ceremony best known for high-profile performances and viral moments, including Miley Cyrus and Robin Thicke’s controversial duet.
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B.
2011 MTV Video Music Awards
The 2011 MTV Video Music Awards was a major music awards ceremony honoring the year's most popular music videos, notable for high-profile performances and widely discussed pop culture moments.
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C.
2012 MTV Video Music Awards
The 2012 MTV Video Music Awards was a major annual music awards ceremony hosted by MTV that celebrated the year’s most popular music videos and featured high-profile live performances.
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D.
2010 MTV Video Music Awards
The 2010 MTV Video Music Awards was a major music awards ceremony known for high-profile performances, memorable pop culture moments, and extensive media coverage.
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E.
MTV Video Music Award
The MTV Video Music Award is a prominent music video accolade presented annually by MTV to honor outstanding achievements in the medium.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (65)
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: 2016 MTV Video Music Awards Description of subject: The 2016 MTV Video Music Awards was a major annual music awards ceremony celebrating the year’s most popular and influential music videos, featuring high-profile performances and widely discussed pop culture moments.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.