Homer Bigart
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Homer Bigart was a Pulitzer Prize–winning American war correspondent renowned for his frontline reporting in conflicts such as World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Homer Bigart canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5731256 — 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: Homer Bigart Context triple: [New York Herald Tribune, notableJournalist, Homer Bigart]
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A.
Homer Martin
Homer Martin was an American labor leader who served as an early president of the United Auto Workers and played a key role in organizing autoworkers during the 1930s.
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B.
Melvin Webb
Melvin Webb is a songwriter known for contributing to the country music hit "That's the Way Love Goes."
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C.
Michael "Beau" Geste
Michael "Beau" Geste is the chivalrous and self-sacrificing protagonist of P.C. Wren’s adventure novel "Beau Geste," famed for his honor, loyalty, and service in the French Foreign Legion.
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D.
Homer Jack
Homer Jack was an American Unitarian minister and prominent civil rights and peace activist who helped lead and organize key mid-20th-century social justice movements.
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E.
Ulysses Everett McGill
Ulysses Everett McGill is the fast-talking, self-styled intellectual escapee who leads a trio of convicts on a comedic odyssey through 1930s Mississippi in the film "O Brother, Where Art Thou?".
- 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: Homer Bigart Target entity description: Homer Bigart was a Pulitzer Prize–winning American war correspondent renowned for his frontline reporting in conflicts such as World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War.
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A.
Homer Martin
Homer Martin was an American labor leader who served as an early president of the United Auto Workers and played a key role in organizing autoworkers during the 1930s.
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B.
Melvin Webb
Melvin Webb is a songwriter known for contributing to the country music hit "That's the Way Love Goes."
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C.
Michael "Beau" Geste
Michael "Beau" Geste is the chivalrous and self-sacrificing protagonist of P.C. Wren’s adventure novel "Beau Geste," famed for his honor, loyalty, and service in the French Foreign Legion.
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D.
Homer Jack
Homer Jack was an American Unitarian minister and prominent civil rights and peace activist who helped lead and organize key mid-20th-century social justice movements.
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E.
Ulysses Everett McGill
Ulysses Everett McGill is the fast-talking, self-styled intellectual escapee who leads a trio of convicts on a comedic odyssey through 1930s Mississippi in the film "O Brother, Where Art Thou?".
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Pulitzer Prize winner
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human ⓘ journalist ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Pulitzer Prize
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Pulitzer Prize for Correspondence ⓘ
linked to:
Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting
Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| coveredConflict |
Korean War
ⓘ
Vietnam War ⓘ World War II ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1907-10-22 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1991-09-16 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Columbia University ⓘ |
| employer |
New York Herald Tribune
ⓘ
The New York Times ⓘ |
| familyName | Bigart ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
journalism
ⓘ
war correspondence ⓘ |
| genre |
investigative journalism
ⓘ
war reporting ⓘ |
| givenName | Homer ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
staff of New York Herald Tribune
ⓘ
staff of The New York Times ⓘ |
| militaryTheaterReportedOn |
European Theater of World War II
ⓘ
linked to:
European theatre of World War II
Korean Peninsula ⓘ Pacific Theater of World War II ⓘ
linked to:
Pacific War
Vietnam ⓘ
linked to:
Viet Nam
|
| name | Homer Bigart ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
courageous frontline war correspondence
ⓘ
critical reporting on U.S. involvement in Vietnam ⓘ |
| notableWork |
frontline reporting during World War II
ⓘ
frontline reporting during the Korean War ⓘ frontline reporting during the Vietnam War ⓘ |
| notedFor |
reluctance to embrace celebrity status
ⓘ
skeptical and understated writing style ⓘ |
| occupation |
journalist
ⓘ
war correspondent ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Hawley, Pennsylvania, United States
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linked to:
Hawley, Pennsylvania
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| placeOfDeath |
New York City, New York, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
New York City
|
| residence |
New York City, New York, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
New York City
|
| spouse | Mimi Bigart ⓘ |
| workLocation |
New York City
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various overseas war fronts ⓘ |
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: Homer Bigart Description of subject: Homer Bigart was a Pulitzer Prize–winning American war correspondent renowned for his frontline reporting in conflicts such as World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.