Michael Kosta (correspondent, guest host)
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Michael Kosta is an American comedian and television personality best known as a correspondent and occasional guest host on The Daily Show.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Michael Kosta (correspondent, guest host) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1987307 — 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: Michael Kosta (correspondent, guest host) Context triple: [The Daily Show, presenter, Michael Kosta (correspondent, guest host)]
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A.
Lester Holt
Lester Holt is an American television journalist and news anchor best known for anchoring NBC's flagship evening news program and moderating major political debates.
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B.
Larry King
Larry King was a legendary American television and radio host best known for his long-running CNN interview show "Larry King Live," where he spoke with world leaders, celebrities, and newsmakers.
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C.
Larry King
Larry King is an American attorney and promoter best known as the former husband and early manager of tennis legend Billie Jean King.
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D.
Scott Pelley
Scott Pelley is an American broadcast journalist best known as a longtime correspondent for CBS’s investigative news program 60 Minutes and a former anchor of the CBS Evening News.
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E.
Greg Kouri
Greg Kouri was a Canadian entrepreneur and early investor best known for co-founding Zip2 alongside Elon and Kimbal Musk.
- 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: Michael Kosta (correspondent, guest host) Target entity description: Michael Kosta is an American comedian and television personality best known as a correspondent and occasional guest host on The Daily Show.
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A.
Lester Holt
Lester Holt is an American television journalist and news anchor best known for anchoring NBC's flagship evening news program and moderating major political debates.
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B.
Larry King
Larry King was a legendary American television and radio host best known for his long-running CNN interview show "Larry King Live," where he spoke with world leaders, celebrities, and newsmakers.
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C.
Larry King
Larry King is an American attorney and promoter best known as the former husband and early manager of tennis legend Billie Jean King.
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D.
Scott Pelley
Scott Pelley is an American broadcast journalist best known as a longtime correspondent for CBS’s investigative news program 60 Minutes and a former anchor of the CBS Evening News.
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E.
Greg Kouri
Greg Kouri was a Canadian entrepreneur and early investor best known for co-founding Zip2 alongside Elon and Kimbal Musk.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comedian
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human ⓘ television correspondent ⓘ television host ⓘ television personality ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Comedy Central ⓘ |
| familyName | Kosta ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
late-night television
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television comedy ⓘ |
| genre |
observational comedy
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political satire ⓘ stand-up comedy ⓘ |
| givenName | Michael ⓘ |
| hasPartIn | American comedy scene ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Michael Kosta ⓘ |
| notableWork |
The Daily Show
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stand-up comedy specials ⓘ |
| occupation |
comedian
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television correspondent ⓘ television host ⓘ television personality ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| partOf | cast of The Daily Show ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
correspondent on The Daily Show
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guest host on The Daily Show ⓘ |
| workLocation | New York City ⓘ |
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: Michael Kosta (correspondent, guest host) Description of subject: Michael Kosta is an American comedian and television personality best known as a correspondent and occasional guest host on The Daily Show.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.