Brian Douglas Williams
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Brian Douglas Williams is an American television journalist best known for anchoring NBC Nightly News and later hosting "The 11th Hour" on MSNBC.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Brian Douglas Williams canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3890516 — 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: Brian Douglas Williams Context triple: [Brian Williams, fullName, Brian Douglas Williams]
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A.
Patrick Williams
Patrick Williams is an American professional basketball player and former Florida State standout known for his versatile forward play and defensive potential in the NBA.
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B.
Patrick Williams
Patrick Williams was an American composer, arranger, and conductor renowned for his work in film, television, and jazz.
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C.
Aaron Ogden
Aaron Ogden was an early 19th-century American politician and steamboat operator whose state-granted monopoly became the focus of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Gibbons v. Ogden, which helped define federal power over interstate commerce.
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D.
Kyle Ward
Kyle Ward is a screenwriter best known for penning the action film "Machete Kills."
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E.
Andre Harris
Andre Harris is a music producer best known for his work on Miguel's acclaimed R&B album "Kaleidoscope Dream."
- 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: Brian Douglas Williams Target entity description: Brian Douglas Williams is an American television journalist best known for anchoring NBC Nightly News and later hosting "The 11th Hour" on MSNBC.
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A.
Patrick Williams
Patrick Williams is an American professional basketball player and former Florida State standout known for his versatile forward play and defensive potential in the NBA.
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B.
Patrick Williams
Patrick Williams was an American composer, arranger, and conductor renowned for his work in film, television, and jazz.
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C.
Aaron Ogden
Aaron Ogden was an early 19th-century American politician and steamboat operator whose state-granted monopoly became the focus of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Gibbons v. Ogden, which helped define federal power over interstate commerce.
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D.
Kyle Ward
Kyle Ward is a screenwriter best known for penning the action film "Machete Kills."
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E.
Andre Harris
Andre Harris is a music producer best known for his work on Miguel's acclaimed R&B album "Kaleidoscope Dream."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
news anchor ⓘ television journalist ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Emmy Award
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Peabody Award ⓘ |
| birthName | Brian Douglas Williams ⓘ |
| child | Allison Williams ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1959-05-05 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Brookdale Community College
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George Washington University ⓘ Mater Dei High School ⓘ The Catholic University of America ⓘ |
| employer |
KYW-TV
ⓘ
MSNBC ⓘ NBC News ⓘ WCAU ⓘ
linked to:
WCAU-TV
WCBS-TV ⓘ WTTG ⓘ |
| endTime |
anchor of NBC Nightly News: 2015
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host of The 11th Hour with Brian Williams: 2021 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Irish American ⓘ |
| familyName | Williams ⓘ |
| genre | television news ⓘ |
| givenName | Brian ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| network |
MSNBC
ⓘ
NBC ⓘ |
| notableCoverage |
Hurricane Katrina
ⓘ
Iraq War ⓘ |
| notableEvent | suspension from NBC Nightly News in 2015 over inaccurate statements about Iraq War reporting ⓘ |
| notableWork |
NBC Nightly News
ⓘ
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams ⓘ |
| occupation |
journalist
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news anchor ⓘ television presenter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Ridgewood, New Jersey, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Ridgewood, New Jersey
|
| positionHeld |
anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News
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anchor of NBC Nightly News ⓘ chief White House correspondent for NBC News ⓘ host of The 11th Hour with Brian Williams ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| residence |
New Canaan, Connecticut, United States
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linked to:
New Canaan, Connecticut
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Jane Stoddard Williams ⓘ |
| startTime |
anchor of NBC Nightly News: 2004
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host of The 11th Hour with Brian Williams: 2016 ⓘ |
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: Brian Douglas Williams Description of subject: Brian Douglas Williams is an American television journalist best known for anchoring NBC Nightly News and later hosting "The 11th Hour" on MSNBC.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.