Lester Holt
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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.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lester Holt canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T661937 — 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: Lester Holt Context triple: [NBC Nightly News, hasHost, Lester Holt]
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A.
Anderson Cooper
Anderson Cooper is an American broadcast journalist and television personality best known as a longtime CNN anchor and correspondent.
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B.
Mike Tirico
Mike Tirico is an American sportscaster best known for his play-by-play work on major NFL and other marquee sports broadcasts for NBC and previously ESPN.
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C.
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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D.
Greg Kouri
Greg Kouri was a Canadian entrepreneur and early investor best known for co-founding Zip2 alongside Elon and Kimbal Musk.
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E.
Stephen E. Smith
Stephen E. Smith was an American businessman and political strategist closely associated with the Kennedy family, notably serving as a key adviser and organizer in their political campaigns.
- 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: Lester Holt Target entity description: 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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A.
Anderson Cooper
Anderson Cooper is an American broadcast journalist and television personality best known as a longtime CNN anchor and correspondent.
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B.
Mike Tirico
Mike Tirico is an American sportscaster best known for his play-by-play work on major NFL and other marquee sports broadcasts for NBC and previously ESPN.
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C.
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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D.
Greg Kouri
Greg Kouri was a Canadian entrepreneur and early investor best known for co-founding Zip2 alongside Elon and Kimbal Musk.
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E.
Stephen E. Smith
Stephen E. Smith was an American businessman and political strategist closely associated with the Kennedy family, notably serving as a key adviser and organizer in their political campaigns.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Lester Holt Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.