James William Nantz III
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James William Nantz III is an American sportscaster best known as the longtime play-by-play voice for CBS Sports’ coverage of the NFL, NCAA basketball, and The Masters.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| James William Nantz III canonical | 2 |
| sportscaster Jim Nantz | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2453961 — 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: James William Nantz III Context triple: [Jim Nantz, fullName, James William Nantz III]
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A.
Cris Collinsworth
Cris Collinsworth is a former NFL wide receiver who became a prominent American football television analyst and color commentator, best known for his work on major network broadcasts of NFL games.
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B.
Mike Tirico
Mike Tirico is an American sportscaster best known for his play-by-play work on major NFL and other marquee sports broadcasts for NBC and previously ESPN.
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C.
Craig Sager
Craig Sager was a flamboyantly dressed and widely beloved American sports reporter best known for his colorful NBA sideline interviews and decades-long broadcasting career.
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D.
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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E.
Bryant Gumbel
Bryant Gumbel is an American television journalist and sportscaster best known for co-hosting NBC's "Today" show and hosting HBO's "Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel."
- 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: James William Nantz III Target entity description: James William Nantz III is an American sportscaster best known as the longtime play-by-play voice for CBS Sports’ coverage of the NFL, NCAA basketball, and The Masters.
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A.
Cris Collinsworth
Cris Collinsworth is a former NFL wide receiver who became a prominent American football television analyst and color commentator, best known for his work on major network broadcasts of NFL games.
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B.
Mike Tirico
Mike Tirico is an American sportscaster best known for his play-by-play work on major NFL and other marquee sports broadcasts for NBC and previously ESPN.
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C.
Craig Sager
Craig Sager was a flamboyantly dressed and widely beloved American sports reporter best known for his colorful NBA sideline interviews and decades-long broadcasting career.
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D.
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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E.
Bryant Gumbel
Bryant Gumbel is an American television journalist and sportscaster best known for co-hosting NBC's "Today" show and hosting HBO's "Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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sportscaster ⓘ television personality ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| coveredDiscipline |
American football
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basketball ⓘ golf ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Houston ⓘ |
| employer |
CBS
ⓘ
CBS News division (sports) ⓘ
linked to:
CBS Sports
CBS Sports ⓘ |
| familyName | Nantz ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | sports broadcasting ⓘ |
| fullName | James William Nantz III ⓘ |
| genre | sports commentary ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| hasCommentatedEvent |
NCAA Men’s Final Four
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linked to:
NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament
Super Bowl ⓘ The Masters Tournament ⓘ
linked to:
Masters Tournament
|
| hasPartnershipWith |
Phil Simms
ⓘ
Tony Romo ⓘ |
| knownFor | signature phrase "Hello, friends" ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam |
University of Houston golf team
ⓘ
linked to:
University of Houston Cougars
|
| name | Jim Nantz ⓘ |
| notableAward |
National Sportscaster of the Year
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Sports Emmy Award ⓘ
linked to:
Sports Emmy Awards
|
| notableRole |
lead host and announcer for CBS coverage of The Masters Tournament
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lead play-by-play announcer for NCAA men’s basketball tournament on CBS ⓘ lead play-by-play announcer for NFL on CBS ⓘ |
| notableWork |
CBS coverage of the PGA Tour
ⓘ
linked to:
CBS Sports
NCAA March Madness on CBS ⓘ
linked to:
NCAA March Madness coverage on CBS
NFL on CBS ⓘ
linked to:
NFL on CBS broadcasts
The Masters on CBS ⓘ
linked to:
Masters Tournament
|
| occupation |
sportscaster
ⓘ
television sportscaster ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: James William Nantz III Description of subject: James William Nantz III is an American sportscaster best known as the longtime play-by-play voice for CBS Sports’ coverage of the NFL, NCAA basketball, and The Masters.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
KSL-TV (early career)
linked to: James William Nantz III