Jay Monahan
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Jay Monahan was an American attorney and legal analyst best known as the late husband of television journalist Katie Couric.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jay Monahan canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6999291 — 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)
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Target entity: Jay Monahan Context triple: [Katie Couric, spouse, Jay Monahan]
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A.
Lewis Boyle
Lewis Boyle is the child of Catherine Fenton, known primarily through this familial relationship.
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B.
David Plante
David Plante is an American novelist and memoirist known for his introspective, often spiritually themed works and his long-running "Franciscan" series.
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C.
John Matsko
John Matsko is an American football offensive line coach best known for his long NFL coaching career with multiple teams, including the St. Louis Rams during their high-powered "Greatest Show on Turf" era.
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D.
Matt Noveskey
Matt Noveskey is an American bassist, songwriter, and producer best known for his long-time role in the alternative rock band Blue October.
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E.
Marc Staal
Marc Staal is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenseman known for his long NHL career, primarily with the New York Rangers, and for being part of the prominent Staal hockey family.
- 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: Jay Monahan Target entity description: Jay Monahan was an American attorney and legal analyst best known as the late husband of television journalist Katie Couric.
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A.
Lewis Boyle
Lewis Boyle is the child of Catherine Fenton, known primarily through this familial relationship.
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B.
David Plante
David Plante is an American novelist and memoirist known for his introspective, often spiritually themed works and his long-running "Franciscan" series.
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C.
John Matsko
John Matsko is an American football offensive line coach best known for his long NFL coaching career with multiple teams, including the St. Louis Rams during their high-powered "Greatest Show on Turf" era.
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D.
Matt Noveskey
Matt Noveskey is an American bassist, songwriter, and producer best known for his long-time role in the alternative rock band Blue October.
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E.
Marc Staal
Marc Staal is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenseman known for his long NHL career, primarily with the New York Rangers, and for being part of the prominent Staal hockey family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
attorney
ⓘ
human ⓘ legal analyst ⓘ |
| areaOfActivity | United States media ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Monahan ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | law ⓘ |
| givenName | Jay ⓘ |
| hasEthnicGroup | White American ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| lifeStatus | deceased ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| mediaRole | legal analyst ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the husband of television journalist Katie Couric ⓘ |
| notableRelative | Katie Couric ⓘ |
| occupation |
attorney
ⓘ
legal analyst ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse |
Jay Monahan
ⓘ
Katie Couric ⓘ |
| spouseEmployer |
CBS News
ⓘ
NBC News ⓘ |
| spouseName | Katie Couric ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation | television journalist ⓘ |
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: Jay Monahan Description of subject: Jay Monahan was an American attorney and legal analyst best known as the late husband of television journalist Katie Couric.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Jay Monahan