Tom Brokaw
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Tom Brokaw is an American television journalist and author best known for serving as a longtime anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tom Brokaw canonical | 24 |
| Brokaw | 4 |
| Thomas John Brokaw | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T661940 — 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: Tom Brokaw Context triple: [NBC Nightly News, hasFormerAnchor, Tom Brokaw]
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A.
David Brinkley
David Brinkley was a prominent American television newscaster and journalist best known for co-anchoring "The Huntley–Brinkley Report" and later serving as a leading figure in network evening news.
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B.
Mike Wallace
Mike Wallace was a prominent American broadcast journalist best known as a hard-hitting correspondent on the television news magazine "60 Minutes."
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C.
Lester Holt
Lester Holt is an American television journalist and news anchor best known for anchoring NBC's flagship evening news program and moderating major political debates.
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D.
Ben Bradlee
Ben Bradlee was a prominent American journalist and longtime executive editor of The Washington Post, best known for overseeing the paper’s investigative reporting on the Watergate scandal.
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E.
William Broyles Jr.
William Broyles Jr. is an American screenwriter and former journalist best known for writing acclaimed films such as "Apollo 13" and "Cast Away."
- 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: Tom Brokaw Target entity description: Tom Brokaw is an American television journalist and author best known for serving as a longtime anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News.
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A.
David Brinkley
David Brinkley was a prominent American television newscaster and journalist best known for co-anchoring "The Huntley–Brinkley Report" and later serving as a leading figure in network evening news.
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B.
Mike Wallace
Mike Wallace was a prominent American broadcast journalist best known as a hard-hitting correspondent on the television news magazine "60 Minutes."
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C.
Lester Holt
Lester Holt is an American television journalist and news anchor best known for anchoring NBC's flagship evening news program and moderating major political debates.
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D.
Ben Bradlee
Ben Bradlee was a prominent American journalist and longtime executive editor of The Washington Post, best known for overseeing the paper’s investigative reporting on the Watergate scandal.
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E.
William Broyles Jr.
William Broyles Jr. is an American screenwriter and former journalist best known for writing acclaimed films such as "Apollo 13" and "Cast Away."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Tom Brokaw Description of subject: Tom Brokaw is an American television journalist and author best known for serving as a longtime anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News.
Referenced by (30)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Yankton, South Dakota, United States
subject linked to:
Today (U.S. TV program) Wikipedia article
subject linked to:
The Today Show
linked to: Tom Brokaw
linked to: Tom Brokaw
linked to: Tom Brokaw
linked to: Tom Brokaw
subject linked to:
Yankton College (attended, non-graduate)