Lester Don Holt Jr.
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Lester Don Holt Jr. is an American television journalist best known as the anchor of NBC Nightly News and a prominent figure in broadcast news.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lester Don Holt Jr. canonical | 2 |
| Lester Don Holt Sr. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3032458 — 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: Lester Don Holt Jr. Context triple: [Lester Holt, fullName, Lester Don Holt Jr.]
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A.
Robert Calvin Bland
Robert Calvin Bland was an influential American blues and soul singer known for his smooth vocal style and a string of hits in the 1950s and 1960s.
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B.
Larry Blanford
Larry Blanford is a professional cinematographer known for his work on feature films such as the romantic comedy "Think Like a Man."
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C.
Robert Lee Huff
Robert Lee Huff, better known as Sam Huff, was a Hall of Fame American football linebacker who starred for the New York Giants and Washington Redskins in the 1950s and 1960s.
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D.
Greg Stillson
Greg Stillson is the ambitious, populist politician and primary antagonist in Stephen King’s novel "The Dead Zone," whose rise to power is foreseen to lead to catastrophic consequences.
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E.
Charles Neblett
Charles Neblett is an American civil rights activist and singer best known as a founding member of the SNCC Freedom Singers, who used music to support and advance the 1960s Civil Rights Movement.
- 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: Lester Don Holt Jr. Target entity description: Lester Don Holt Jr. is an American television journalist best known as the anchor of NBC Nightly News and a prominent figure in broadcast news.
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A.
Robert Calvin Bland
Robert Calvin Bland was an influential American blues and soul singer known for his smooth vocal style and a string of hits in the 1950s and 1960s.
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B.
Larry Blanford
Larry Blanford is a professional cinematographer known for his work on feature films such as the romantic comedy "Think Like a Man."
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C.
Robert Lee Huff
Robert Lee Huff, better known as Sam Huff, was a Hall of Fame American football linebacker who starred for the New York Giants and Washington Redskins in the 1950s and 1960s.
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D.
Greg Stillson
Greg Stillson is the ambitious, populist politician and primary antagonist in Stephen King’s novel "The Dead Zone," whose rise to power is foreseen to lead to catastrophic consequences.
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E.
Charles Neblett
Charles Neblett is an American civil rights activist and singer best known as a founding member of the SNCC Freedom Singers, who used music to support and advance the 1960s Civil Rights Movement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American journalist
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human ⓘ journalist ⓘ news anchor ⓘ television journalist ⓘ television presenter ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Edward R. Murrow Award
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Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1959-03-08 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | California State University, Sacramento ⓘ |
| employer |
MSNBC
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NBC News ⓘ NBCUniversal ⓘ National Broadcasting Company ⓘ WBBM-TV ⓘ WCBS-TV ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
African American
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linked to:
Black Americans
|
| familyName | Holt ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
broadcast journalism
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television news ⓘ |
| genre | television news ⓘ |
| givenName | Lester ⓘ |
| hasChild | Stefan Holt ⓘ |
| hasRelative |
Lester Don Holt Sr.
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linked to:
Lester Don Holt Jr.
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| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Lester Don Holt Jr. ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | first solo African American anchor of a weekday network nightly newscast in the United States ⓘ |
| notableEvent | moderated 2016 United States presidential debate ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Dateline NBC
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NBC Nightly News ⓘ |
| occupation |
journalist
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news anchor ⓘ television presenter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Marin County, California, United States
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linked to:
Marin County
|
| positionHeld |
anchor at MSNBC
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anchor at WBBM-TV ⓘ anchor of Dateline NBC ⓘ anchor of NBC Nightly News ⓘ co-anchor of Weekend Today ⓘ reporter at WCBS-TV ⓘ weekend anchor of NBC Nightly News ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Carol Hagen Holt ⓘ |
| 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: Lester Don Holt Jr. Description of subject: Lester Don Holt Jr. is an American television journalist best known as the anchor of NBC Nightly News and a prominent figure in broadcast news.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Lester Don Holt Jr.