David Barstow
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David Barstow is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American investigative journalist known for his in-depth reporting for The New York Times on corporate malfeasance, political influence, and major national crises.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Barstow canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6954931 — 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: David Barstow Context triple: [Deepwater Horizon, authorOfSource, David Barstow]
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A.
Jess Rosenthal
Jess Rosenthal is a television producer best known for his executive production work on the hit mystery-comedy series "Only Murders in the Building."
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B.
Brian Stelter
Brian Stelter is an American journalist and former CNN media correspondent best known for his reporting on the media industry and his book "Top of the Morning," which inspired the TV series "The Morning Show."
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C.
Kurt Eichenwald
Kurt Eichenwald is an American journalist and author known for his investigative reporting and nonfiction books on corporate crime and financial scandals.
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D.
Evan Osnos
Evan Osnos is an American journalist and author known for his in-depth reporting on politics and foreign affairs, particularly U.S.-China relations, as a staff writer for The New Yorker.
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E.
John Nichols
John Nichols is an American local politician serving as the mayor of College Station, Texas.
- 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: David Barstow Target entity description: David Barstow is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American investigative journalist known for his in-depth reporting for The New York Times on corporate malfeasance, political influence, and major national crises.
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A.
Jess Rosenthal
Jess Rosenthal is a television producer best known for his executive production work on the hit mystery-comedy series "Only Murders in the Building."
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B.
Brian Stelter
Brian Stelter is an American journalist and former CNN media correspondent best known for his reporting on the media industry and his book "Top of the Morning," which inspired the TV series "The Morning Show."
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C.
Kurt Eichenwald
Kurt Eichenwald is an American journalist and author known for his investigative reporting and nonfiction books on corporate crime and financial scandals.
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D.
Evan Osnos
Evan Osnos is an American journalist and author known for his in-depth reporting on politics and foreign affairs, particularly U.S.-China relations, as a staff writer for The New Yorker.
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E.
John Nichols
John Nichols is an American local politician serving as the mayor of College Station, Texas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Pulitzer Prize winner
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investigative journalist ⓘ person ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting
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Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting ⓘ Pulitzer Prize for Public Service ⓘ |
| citizenship |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| employer |
The New York Times
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The New York Times investigative unit ⓘ
linked to:
The New York Times
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| fieldOfWork |
corporate accountability reporting
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political reporting ⓘ public-interest journalism ⓘ |
| genre | investigative journalism ⓘ |
| knownFor |
exposing corporate wrongdoing
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in-depth investigative journalism ⓘ long-form investigative projects ⓘ reporting on government and political influence operations ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | won multiple Pulitzer Prizes ⓘ |
| notableFor |
complex multi-part investigative series
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deep document-based investigations ⓘ |
| notableWork |
coverage of national crises in the United States
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coverage of the Iraq War and military propaganda efforts ⓘ investigative reporting on corporate malfeasance ⓘ investigative reporting on major national crises ⓘ investigative reporting on political influence ⓘ reporting on corporate lobbying and influence in Washington ⓘ |
| occupation |
investigative reporter
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journalist ⓘ |
| workLocation | New York City ⓘ |
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: David Barstow Description of subject: David Barstow is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American investigative journalist known for his in-depth reporting for The New York Times on corporate malfeasance, political influence, and major national crises.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.