Harry Reasoner
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Harry Reasoner was an American journalist and television news anchor best known as one of the original correspondents on the CBS news magazine program 60 Minutes.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Harry Reasoner canonical | 2 |
| Harry Reasoner at Large | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1737298 — 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: Harry Reasoner Context triple: [60 Minutes, originalPresenter, Harry Reasoner]
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A.
Leo White
Leo White was a British-born American character actor and director best known for his work in silent films, including frequent collaborations with Charlie Chaplin.
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B.
Joe Coburn
Joe Coburn was a 19th-century Irish-American bare-knuckle boxer who became one of the leading heavyweight fighters of his era.
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C.
Peter D. Graves
Peter D. Graves is a film producer best known for his work on major Hollywood action and science fiction movies, including Terminator Salvation.
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D.
Harry Joseph Letterman
Harry Joseph Letterman is the son of American television host and comedian David Letterman.
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E.
William A. Petersen
William A. Petersen was a 19th-century Washington, D.C. tailor and boardinghouse owner whose home became historically significant as the place where President Abraham Lincoln died.
- 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: Harry Reasoner Target entity description: Harry Reasoner was an American journalist and television news anchor best known as one of the original correspondents on the CBS news magazine program 60 Minutes.
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A.
Leo White
Leo White was a British-born American character actor and director best known for his work in silent films, including frequent collaborations with Charlie Chaplin.
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B.
Joe Coburn
Joe Coburn was a 19th-century Irish-American bare-knuckle boxer who became one of the leading heavyweight fighters of his era.
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C.
Peter D. Graves
Peter D. Graves is a film producer best known for his work on major Hollywood action and science fiction movies, including Terminator Salvation.
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D.
Harry Joseph Letterman
Harry Joseph Letterman is the son of American television host and comedian David Letterman.
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E.
William A. Petersen
William A. Petersen was a 19th-century Washington, D.C. tailor and boardinghouse owner whose home became historically significant as the place where President Abraham Lincoln died.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Harry Reasoner Description of subject: Harry Reasoner was an American journalist and television news anchor best known as one of the original correspondents on the CBS news magazine program 60 Minutes.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Harry Reasoner at Large