Steve Kroft
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Steve Kroft is an American journalist best known as a longtime investigative correspondent for the CBS news magazine program "60 Minutes."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Steve Kroft canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1737305 — 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: Steve Kroft Context triple: [60 Minutes, notableCorrespondent, Steve Kroft]
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A.
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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B.
David Pilger
David Pilger is an individual notable enough to be recorded as a bearer of the surname Pilger, though no widely recognized public information about him is available.
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C.
Howard Kurtz
Howard Kurtz is an American journalist and media critic best known for hosting media analysis programs on Fox News and CNN and for his long-running media column in The Washington Post.
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D.
David Key
David Key was a 19th-century American politician who served as U.S. Postmaster General under President Rutherford B. Hayes and later as a federal judge.
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E.
Robert Siegel
Robert Siegel is an American architect best known as a co-founder and principal of the modernist firm Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects.
- 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: Steve Kroft Target entity description: Steve Kroft is an American journalist best known as a longtime investigative correspondent for the CBS news magazine program "60 Minutes."
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A.
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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B.
David Pilger
David Pilger is an individual notable enough to be recorded as a bearer of the surname Pilger, though no widely recognized public information about him is available.
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C.
Howard Kurtz
Howard Kurtz is an American journalist and media critic best known for hosting media analysis programs on Fox News and CNN and for his long-running media column in The Washington Post.
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D.
David Key
David Key was a 19th-century American politician who served as U.S. Postmaster General under President Rutherford B. Hayes and later as a federal judge.
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E.
Robert Siegel
Robert Siegel is an American architect best known as a co-founder and principal of the modernist firm Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
investigative journalist ⓘ journalist ⓘ television reporter ⓘ |
| activeIn |
20th century
ⓘ
21st century ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Emmy Award
ⓘ
Peabody Award ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer |
CBS News
ⓘ
Columbia Broadcasting System ⓘ
surface form:
Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)
|
| familyName | Kroft ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
broadcast journalism
ⓘ
television news ⓘ |
| genre |
investigative journalism
ⓘ
news reporting ⓘ |
| givenName | Steve ⓘ |
| hasParticularActivity |
conducting high-profile interviews
ⓘ
international reporting ⓘ investigative reporting on business ⓘ investigative reporting on politics ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mediaType | television ⓘ |
| memberOf |
60 Minutes
ⓘ
surface form:
CBS News 60 Minutes team
|
| name | Steve Kroft self-link ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | helped shape the reputation of 60 Minutes as a leading investigative news magazine ⓘ |
| notableFor | longtime investigative correspondent on 60 Minutes ⓘ |
| notableWork | 60 Minutes ⓘ |
| occupation |
journalist
ⓘ
news anchor ⓘ television correspondent ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation | New York City ⓘ |
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: Steve Kroft Description of subject: Steve Kroft is an American journalist best known as a longtime investigative correspondent for the CBS news magazine program "60 Minutes."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.