Bob Costas
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Bob Costas is an American sportscaster renowned for his long career with NBC Sports and his insightful coverage of major events like the Olympics, World Series, and Super Bowl.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bob Costas canonical | 18 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4032524 — 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: Bob Costas Context triple: [Ford C. Frick Award, hasNotableRecipient, Bob Costas]
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A.
Tom Snyder
Tom Snyder was an American television personality and pioneering late-night talk show host known for his in-depth, conversational interview style on programs like "Tomorrow" and "The Late Late Show."
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B.
Howard Cosell
Howard Cosell was a famously outspoken and influential American sports broadcaster known for his distinctive voice, candid commentary, and major role in bringing personality-driven analysis to televised sports.
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C.
Lorne David Michaels
Lorne David Michaels is a Canadian-American television producer, writer, and comedian best known as the creator and longtime executive producer of the sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live.
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D.
Chris Berman
Chris Berman is a longtime ESPN sportscaster best known for his energetic NFL coverage and signature catchphrases.
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E.
Al Michaels
Al Michaels is a renowned American sportscaster best known for his decades of play-by-play commentary on NFL games and other major sporting events.
- 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: Bob Costas Target entity description: Bob Costas is an American sportscaster renowned for his long career with NBC Sports and his insightful coverage of major events like the Olympics, World Series, and Super Bowl.
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A.
Tom Snyder
Tom Snyder was an American television personality and pioneering late-night talk show host known for his in-depth, conversational interview style on programs like "Tomorrow" and "The Late Late Show."
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B.
Howard Cosell
Howard Cosell was a famously outspoken and influential American sports broadcaster known for his distinctive voice, candid commentary, and major role in bringing personality-driven analysis to televised sports.
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C.
Lorne David Michaels
Lorne David Michaels is a Canadian-American television producer, writer, and comedian best known as the creator and longtime executive producer of the sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live.
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D.
Chris Berman
Chris Berman is a longtime ESPN sportscaster best known for his energetic NFL coverage and signature catchphrases.
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E.
Al Michaels
Al Michaels is a renowned American sportscaster best known for his decades of play-by-play commentary on NFL games and other major sporting events.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
radio host ⓘ sportscaster ⓘ television personality ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1970s ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Curt Gowdy Media Award
ⓘ
Ford C. Frick Award ⓘ Sports Emmy Award ⓘ
linked to:
Sports Emmy Awards
Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1952-03-22 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Queens, New York City, New York, United States ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| coveredEvent |
Boxing matches
ⓘ
NBA Finals ⓘ
linked to:
NBA Finals games
NHL Stanley Cup Finals ⓘ
linked to:
NHL playoffs
Olympic Games ⓘ Super Bowl ⓘ World Series ⓘ |
| education | Syracuse University ⓘ |
| employer |
HBO
ⓘ
MLB Network ⓘ NBC Sports ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Greek American ⓘ |
| familyName |
Costas
ⓘ
linked to:
Kostas
|
| fieldOfWork | sports broadcasting ⓘ |
| fullName | Robert Quinlan Costas ⓘ |
| genre | sports commentary ⓘ |
| givenName | Robert ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Keith Costas
ⓘ
Taylor Costas ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | insightful and historically informed sports commentary ⓘ |
| notableRole |
host of "Inside the NFL" on HBO
ⓘ
host of "Later with Bob Costas" on NBC ⓘ host of "NFL Live" on NBC ⓘ host of NBC's prime-time Olympic coverage ⓘ play-by-play announcer for NBC baseball ⓘ |
| notableWork |
HBO series "Costas Now"
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HBO series "On the Record with Bob Costas" ⓘ MLB Network show "Studio 42 with Bob Costas" ⓘ
linked to:
MLB Network
Major League Baseball coverage on NBC ⓘ
linked to:
MLB on NBC
NBC program "Football Night in America" ⓘ
linked to:
Football Night in America
Olympic Games coverage on NBC ⓘ
linked to:
NBC Sports
Super Bowl coverage ⓘ World Series coverage ⓘ |
| occupation |
radio host
ⓘ
sportscaster ⓘ television host ⓘ |
| residence | St. Louis, Missouri, United States ⓘ |
| spouse |
Carole Randall Krummenacher
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Jill Sutton ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Bob Costas Description of subject: Bob Costas is an American sportscaster renowned for his long career with NBC Sports and his insightful coverage of major events like the Olympics, World Series, and Super Bowl.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.