KQED
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KQED is a major public media organization based in the San Francisco Bay Area, operating television, radio, and digital platforms as a member station of PBS and NPR.
All labels observed (10)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| KQED-TV | 2 |
| KQED canonical | 1 |
| KQED Arts | 1 |
| KQED Education | 1 |
| KQED Inc. | 1 |
| KQED News | 1 |
| KQED Podcasts | 1 |
| KQED Science | 1 |
| KQED-FM | 1 |
| KQED.org | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3993049 — 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: KQED Context triple: [Victor Wong, workedFor, KQED]
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A.
KCRA-TV
KCRA-TV is a television station serving the Sacramento, California market, best known as the region’s long-time NBC affiliate and a major source of local news coverage.
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B.
KGO-TV
KGO-TV is a major ABC-owned local television station serving the San Francisco Bay Area with news, entertainment, and network programming.
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C.
KCTS-TV
KCTS-TV is a Seattle-based public television station best known for producing educational programs such as the science show "Bill Nye the Science Guy."
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D.
KTVU
KTVU is a major television station serving the San Francisco Bay Area, known primarily as the local Fox network affiliate.
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E.
KNKX
KNKX is the ICAO airport code for Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, a major United States Marine Corps aviation facility in San Diego, California.
- 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: KQED Target entity description: KQED is a major public media organization based in the San Francisco Bay Area, operating television, radio, and digital platforms as a member station of PBS and NPR.
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A.
KCRA-TV
KCRA-TV is a television station serving the Sacramento, California market, best known as the region’s long-time NBC affiliate and a major source of local news coverage.
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B.
KGO-TV
KGO-TV is a major ABC-owned local television station serving the San Francisco Bay Area with news, entertainment, and network programming.
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C.
KCTS-TV
KCTS-TV is a Seattle-based public television station best known for producing educational programs such as the science show "Bill Nye the Science Guy."
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D.
KTVU
KTVU is a major television station serving the San Francisco Bay Area, known primarily as the local Fox network affiliate.
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E.
KNKX
KNKX is the ICAO airport code for Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, a major United States Marine Corps aviation facility in San Diego, California.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NPR member station
ⓘ
PBS member station ⓘ public broadcasting station ⓘ public media organization ⓘ |
| broadcastArea | Northern California ⓘ |
| broadcastsOn |
Channel 30 (UHF, KQET)
ⓘ
Channel 9 (virtual) ⓘ |
| callsignMeaning | Knowledge, Quality, Education, Diversity ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| foundedAs |
KQED-TV
ⓘ
linked to:
KQED
|
| fundingModel |
listener-supported
ⓘ
member-supported ⓘ |
| genre | public broadcasting ⓘ |
| hasPart |
KQED Arts
ⓘ
linked to:
KQED
KQED Education ⓘ
linked to:
KQED
KQED News ⓘ
linked to:
KQED
KQED Podcasts ⓘ
linked to:
KQED
KQED Science ⓘ
linked to:
KQED
|
| headquartersLocation |
San Francisco, California
ⓘ
linked to:
San Francisco
|
| language | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn | San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ |
| mediaType |
digital media
ⓘ
radio ⓘ television ⓘ |
| networkAffiliation |
NPR
ⓘ
linked to:
National Public Radio
PBS ⓘ |
| nonProfitStatus | nonprofit organization ⓘ |
| operates |
KQED-FM
ⓘ
linked to:
KQED
KQED-TV ⓘ
linked to:
KQED
KQED.org ⓘ
linked to:
KQED
KQET ⓘ |
| ownership |
KQED Inc.
ⓘ
linked to:
KQED
|
| produces |
digital video series
ⓘ
local news programs ⓘ podcasts ⓘ public affairs programs ⓘ |
| programmingType |
arts and culture
ⓘ
children's programming ⓘ educational programming ⓘ news ⓘ public affairs ⓘ |
| radioFrequency | 88.5 FM ⓘ |
| region |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
|
| regulatoryAuthority | Federal Communications Commission ⓘ |
| serves | San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
general audience
ⓘ
students and educators ⓘ |
| website | https://www.kqed.org ⓘ |
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: KQED Description of subject: KQED is a major public media organization based in the San Francisco Bay Area, operating television, radio, and digital platforms as a member station of PBS and NPR.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.