Soul Train Music Awards

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STRONG EVIDENCE evidence grade — master store (canonical CSV)

Combined Graph record U-00298 · provenance: canonical master store (CSV), record CTL-L-0008. Master record source: CTL seed 2026-10-16 — UNVERIFIED, verify before public citation.

Stored: list_type=award, issuer=Soul Train, first_held=1987 — established in full fetches with one scoping caveat on issuer. WBLS (fetched in full; article carries BET's own statements plus a 'THE HISTORY OF THE SOUL TRAIN AWARDS' section) states: 'Launched in 1987, the Soul Train Music Awards were created as an annual celebration of Black excellence in music. The ceremony honored top talent across R&B, soul, hip-hop, and gospel', arising from the Soul Train television show (debuted 1971), and that 'the event was revived under BET Networks' after a 2008 hiatus. XXL (fetched in full, tier-4 trade) corroborates: 'The Soul Train Awards, an award ceremony honoring the best in Black culture named after the long-running television show of the same name... The first STA was in 1987. The ceremony ran annually up until 2007. BET revived the awards show in 2009.' So first_held=1987 and list_type=award are directly established. Issuer caveat: the fetched sources frame 'Soul Train' as the originating brand/franchise (the TV show created by Don Cornelius) and BET as the present-day presenter/reviver; neither fetched source names a producing entity literally called 'Soul Train', so the stored issuer is supported as the originating brand, not as a current producing entity — that scoping is why this is STRONG, not VERIFIED, and no correction is made (the stored value is not contradicted).

Sources

• https://www.wbls.com/news/soul-train-awards-back-this-fall-after-hiatus-airing-on-bet-and-cbs/ (verification source · master store)

Evidence note (master store)

Stored: list_type=award, issuer=Soul Train, first_held=1987 — established in full fetches with one scoping caveat on issuer. WBLS (fetched in full; article carries BET's own statements plus a 'THE HISTORY OF THE SOUL TRAIN AWARDS' section) states: 'Launched in 1987, the Soul Train Music Awards were created as an annual celebration of Black excellence in music. The ceremony honored top talent across R&B, soul, hip-hop, and gospel', arising from the Soul Train television show (debuted 1971), and that 'the event was revived under BET Networks' after a 2008 hiatus. XXL (fetched in full, tier-4 trade) corroborates: 'The Soul Train Awards, an award ceremony honoring the best in Black culture named after the long-running television show of the same name... The first STA was in 1987. The ceremony ran annually up until 2007. BET revived the awards show in 2009.' So first_held=1987 and list_type=award are directly established. Issuer caveat: the fetched sources frame 'Soul Train' as the originating brand/franchise (the TV show created by Don Cornelius) and BET as the present-day presenter/reviver; neither fetched source names a producing entity literally called 'Soul Train', so the stored issuer is supported as the originating brand, not as a current producing entity — that scoping is why this is STRONG, not VERIFIED, and no correction is made (the stored value is not contradicted).

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