Meridian Broadcasting
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Meridian Broadcasting was a regional ITV television company in the United Kingdom, best known for providing commercial broadcasting services to the south and southeast of England.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Meridian Broadcasting canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11036626 — 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: Meridian Broadcasting Context triple: [Hornblower, productionCompany, Meridian Broadcasting]
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A.
Eagle Broadcasting Corporation
Eagle Broadcasting Corporation is a Philippine media company best known for operating television and radio networks, including the Net 25 TV channel.
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B.
Cooke Broadcasting
Cooke Broadcasting was a media company in the United States that operated television and radio stations under the ownership of businessman Jack Kent Cooke.
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C.
Alto Broadcasting System
Alto Broadcasting System was a pioneering Philippine media company that became the country’s first television network operator and a forerunner of today’s ABS-CBN.
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D.
Katz Broadcasting
Katz Broadcasting is an American media company that operates digital multicast television networks targeting specific audience demographics, now owned by the E. W. Scripps Company.
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E.
Taft Broadcasting
Taft Broadcasting was a major American media conglomerate that owned television and radio stations, produced syndicated programming and cartoons, and operated several amusement parks during the mid-20th century.
- 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: Meridian Broadcasting Target entity description: Meridian Broadcasting was a regional ITV television company in the United Kingdom, best known for providing commercial broadcasting services to the south and southeast of England.
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A.
Eagle Broadcasting Corporation
Eagle Broadcasting Corporation is a Philippine media company best known for operating television and radio networks, including the Net 25 TV channel.
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B.
Cooke Broadcasting
Cooke Broadcasting was a media company in the United States that operated television and radio stations under the ownership of businessman Jack Kent Cooke.
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C.
Alto Broadcasting System
Alto Broadcasting System was a pioneering Philippine media company that became the country’s first television network operator and a forerunner of today’s ABS-CBN.
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D.
Katz Broadcasting
Katz Broadcasting is an American media company that operates digital multicast television networks targeting specific audience demographics, now owned by the E. W. Scripps Company.
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E.
Taft Broadcasting
Taft Broadcasting was a major American media conglomerate that owned television and radio stations, produced syndicated programming and cartoons, and operated several amusement parks during the mid-20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ITV regional franchise
ⓘ
commercial television company ⓘ television broadcaster ⓘ |
| affiliation | Independent Television (ITV) ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | ITV Meridian ⓘ |
| brandName | Meridian ⓘ |
| broadcastArea |
ITV Meridian region
ⓘ
linked to:
ITV Meridian
|
| broadcastFormat |
analogue television
ⓘ
digital television ⓘ |
| broadcastMedium |
cable television
ⓘ
satellite television ⓘ terrestrial television ⓘ |
| broadcastStandard | PAL ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfBroadcast | England ⓘ |
| fundingModel | advertising-funded ⓘ |
| genre |
children's programming
ⓘ
documentaries ⓘ drama ⓘ regional entertainment ⓘ regional news ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Hampshire
ⓘ
Southampton ⓘ |
| industry | television broadcasting ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| network | ITV ⓘ |
| operatedInRegion |
South East of England
ⓘ
linked to:
South East England
South of England ⓘ
linked to:
southern England
|
| ownedBy | ITV plc ⓘ |
| partOf |
ITV Network
ⓘ
linked to:
ITV
|
| predecessor |
Television South
ⓘ
linked to:
Southern Television
|
| producedProgram |
Meridian News
ⓘ
Meridian Tonight ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Berkshire
ⓘ
Dorset ⓘ Hampshire ⓘ Isle of Wight ⓘ Kent ⓘ Oxfordshire ⓘ Surrey ⓘ Sussex ⓘ Wiltshire ⓘ |
| replaced |
Television South
ⓘ
linked to:
Southern Television
|
| serviceType | commercial broadcasting ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
viewers in south east England
ⓘ
viewers in southern England ⓘ |
| typeOfCompany | regional television company ⓘ |
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: Meridian Broadcasting Description of subject: Meridian Broadcasting was a regional ITV television company in the United Kingdom, best known for providing commercial broadcasting services to the south and southeast of England.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.