heute (news program)
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"heute" is a long-running German television news program that serves as one of the main daily newscasts on the public broadcaster ZDF.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| heute (news program) canonical | 1 |
| heute+ | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5318112 — 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: heute (news program) Context triple: [ZDF, producesProgram, heute (news program)]
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A.
World News Now
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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B.
Today!
Today! is a 1965 studio album by the Beach Boys that marked a major artistic step forward for the band with more sophisticated songwriting and production.
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C.
NBC News Today
NBC News Today, commonly known as the "Today" show, is a long-running American morning news and talk program that blends headlines, interviews, lifestyle segments, and entertainment on NBC.
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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.
The News
The News was an earlier Raleigh, North Carolina newspaper that eventually merged or evolved into what is now known as The News & Observer.
- 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: heute (news program) Target entity description: "heute" is a long-running German television news program that serves as one of the main daily newscasts on the public broadcaster ZDF.
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A.
World News Now
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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B.
Today!
Today! is a 1965 studio album by the Beach Boys that marked a major artistic step forward for the band with more sophisticated songwriting and production.
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C.
NBC News Today
NBC News Today, commonly known as the "Today" show, is a long-running American morning news and talk program that blends headlines, interviews, lifestyle segments, and entertainment on NBC.
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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.
The News
The News was an earlier Raleigh, North Carolina newspaper that eventually merged or evolved into what is now known as The News & Observer.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
German television program
ⓘ
ZDF news program ⓘ television news program ⓘ |
| broadcaster | ZDF ⓘ |
| broadcastFrequency | daily ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Germany ⓘ |
| coverageArea |
Europe (via satellite and cable)
ⓘ
Germany ⓘ |
| distributionFormat |
cable television
ⓘ
online streaming ⓘ satellite television ⓘ terrestrial television ⓘ |
| firstAiredOnChannel | ZDF ⓘ |
| format | television newscast ⓘ |
| genre | news program ⓘ |
| hasEdition |
late-night updates
ⓘ
main evening edition ⓘ short news bulletins ⓘ |
| hasOnlinePresence |
ZDF Mediathek
ⓘ
linked to:
ZDFmediathek
ZDFheute website ⓘ |
| hasSpinOff |
heute Xpress
ⓘ
heute in Europa ⓘ heute+ ⓘ
linked to:
heute (news program)
heute-journal ⓘ |
| inception | 1963 ⓘ |
| isPartOf | ZDF news output ⓘ |
| medium | television ⓘ |
| network | ZDF ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of ZDF's main daily newscasts
ⓘ
long-running presence in German television news ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | German ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | ZDF ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen
ⓘ
linked to:
ZDF
|
| producer |
Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen
ⓘ
linked to:
ZDF
|
| subject |
current affairs
ⓘ
economy ⓘ international news ⓘ politics ⓘ sports news ⓘ weather ⓘ |
| targetAudience | general public ⓘ |
| typicalBroadcastTime |
19:00 CET
ⓘ
evening ⓘ |
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: heute (news program) Description of subject: "heute" is a long-running German television news program that serves as one of the main daily newscasts on the public broadcaster ZDF.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
heute (news program)
linked to: heute (news program)