Late Night with David Letterman
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Late Night with David Letterman was a groundbreaking American late-night talk show known for its offbeat humor, innovative comedy segments, and influential role in shaping modern late-night television.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Late Night with David Letterman canonical | 34 |
| Late Night franchise | 1 |
| Late Night with David Letterman appearances | 1 |
| The Late Show with David Letterman writing staff | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T719847 — 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: Late Night with David Letterman Context triple: [David Letterman, notableWork, Late Night with David Letterman]
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A.
The Late Show
The Late Show is a long-running American late-night talk show on CBS known for its celebrity interviews, comedy segments, and topical monologues.
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B.
The Tonight Show
The Tonight Show is a long-running American late-night talk show featuring celebrity interviews, comedy sketches, and musical performances.
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C.
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Late Night with Seth Meyers is an American late-night talk show on NBC featuring comedian Seth Meyers delivering topical monologues, celebrity interviews, and comedy segments.
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D.
Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live is a long-running American late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show known for its satirical take on politics and pop culture.
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E.
The Jay Leno Show
The Jay Leno Show was an American late-night talk and variety television program hosted by comedian Jay Leno on NBC.
- 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: Late Night with David Letterman Target entity description: Late Night with David Letterman was a groundbreaking American late-night talk show known for its offbeat humor, innovative comedy segments, and influential role in shaping modern late-night television.
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A.
The Late Show
The Late Show is a long-running American late-night talk show on CBS known for its celebrity interviews, comedy segments, and topical monologues.
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B.
The Tonight Show
The Tonight Show is a long-running American late-night talk show featuring celebrity interviews, comedy sketches, and musical performances.
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C.
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Late Night with Seth Meyers is an American late-night talk show on NBC featuring comedian Seth Meyers delivering topical monologues, celebrity interviews, and comedy segments.
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D.
Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live is a long-running American late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show known for its satirical take on politics and pop culture.
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E.
The Jay Leno Show
The Jay Leno Show was an American late-night talk and variety television program hosted by comedian Jay Leno on NBC.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Late Night with David Letterman Description of subject: Late Night with David Letterman was a groundbreaking American late-night talk show known for its offbeat humor, innovative comedy segments, and influential role in shaping modern late-night television.
Referenced by (37)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Late Night franchise
this entity surface form:
The Late Show with David Letterman writing staff
this entity surface form:
Late Night with David Letterman appearances