Matt Lauer
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Matt Lauer is an American television journalist and former longtime co-host of NBC's "Today" show.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Matt Lauer canonical | 5 |
| Dave Garroway | 1 |
| Matthew Todd Lauer | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2688321 — 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: Matt Lauer Context triple: [Ohio University, hasAlumni, Matt Lauer]
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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 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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C.
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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D.
Peter Jennings
Peter Jennings was a prominent Canadian-American journalist best known as the longtime anchor of ABC’s flagship evening news program, World News Tonight.
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E.
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.
- 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: Matt Lauer Target entity description: Matt Lauer is an American television journalist and former longtime co-host of NBC's "Today" 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.
Peter Jennings
Peter Jennings was a prominent Canadian-American journalist best known as the longtime anchor of ABC’s flagship evening news program, World News Tonight.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
news anchor ⓘ television journalist ⓘ television presenter ⓘ |
| child |
Jack Lauer
ⓘ
Romy Lauer ⓘ Thijs Lauer ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| coHosted | Today ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | United States of America ⓘ |
| coveredEvent |
Olympic Games for NBC
ⓘ
linked to:
NBC Sports
U.S. presidential elections for NBC ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1957-12-30 ⓘ |
| education |
Ohio University (did not graduate)
ⓘ
linked to:
Ohio University
|
| employer |
NBC
ⓘ
NBC News ⓘ |
| endTime | 2017 (co-host of Today) ⓘ |
| familyName | Lauer ⓘ |
| fullName |
Matthew Todd Lauer
ⓘ
linked to:
Matt Lauer
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | morning news program ⓘ |
| givenName | Matthew ⓘ |
| hasWorkedAs |
local television reporter
ⓘ
talk show host ⓘ |
| hasWorkedFor |
ESPN
ⓘ
WHDH-TV ⓘ WNEW-TV ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| network | NBC ⓘ |
| notableEvent | fired from NBC News in 2017 ⓘ |
| notableFor | longtime co-host of NBC’s Today show ⓘ |
| notableWork | Today ⓘ |
| occupation |
correspondent
ⓘ
news anchor ⓘ television host ⓘ television journalist ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
New York
ⓘ
linked to:
New York City
New York City ⓘ |
| positionHeld | co-host of Today ⓘ |
| reasonForFiring | allegations of sexual misconduct ⓘ |
| residence | New York ⓘ |
| spouse |
Annette Roque
ⓘ
Nancy Alspaugh ⓘ |
| startTime | 1997 (co-host of Today) ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1979–2017 (television career) ⓘ |
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: Matt Lauer Description of subject: Matt Lauer is an American television journalist and former longtime co-host of NBC's "Today" show.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Today (U.S. TV program) Wikipedia article
linked to: Matt Lauer
subject linked to:
Today (U.S. TV program) Wikipedia article
subject linked to:
The Today Show
linked to: Matt Lauer