Walter Cronkite
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Walter Cronkite was a legendary American broadcast journalist and longtime CBS Evening News anchor, widely regarded as "the most trusted man in America" during the mid-20th century.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Walter Cronkite canonical | 11 |
| Cronkite | 1 |
| Walter Leland Cronkite Jr. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1512900 — 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: Walter Cronkite Context triple: [Walter, hasNotableBearer, Walter Cronkite]
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A.
Tom Brokaw
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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B.
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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C.
Peter Jennings
Peter Jennings was a prominent Canadian-American journalist best known as the longtime anchor of ABC’s flagship evening news program, World News Tonight.
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D.
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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E.
Howard Cosell
Howard Cosell was a famously outspoken and influential American sports broadcaster known for his distinctive voice, candid commentary, and major role in bringing personality-driven analysis to televised sports.
- 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: Walter Cronkite Target entity description: Walter Cronkite was a legendary American broadcast journalist and longtime CBS Evening News anchor, widely regarded as "the most trusted man in America" during the mid-20th century.
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A.
Tom Brokaw
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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B.
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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C.
Peter Jennings
Peter Jennings was a prominent Canadian-American journalist best known as the longtime anchor of ABC’s flagship evening news program, World News Tonight.
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D.
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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E.
Howard Cosell
Howard Cosell was a famously outspoken and influential American sports broadcaster known for his distinctive voice, candid commentary, and major role in bringing personality-driven analysis to televised sports.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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journalist ⓘ television news anchor ⓘ war correspondent ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Emmy Award
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Peabody Award ⓘ Presidential Medal of Freedom ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
Martha's Vineyard
ⓘ
surface form:
Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, United States
|
| causeOfDeath | cerebrovascular disease ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| coveredEvent |
Apollo 11
ⓘ
surface form:
Apollo 11 Moon landing
Vietnam War ⓘ Watergate scandal ⓘ World War II ⓘ assassination of John F. Kennedy ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1916-11-04 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2009-07-17 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Texas at Austin ⓘ |
| employer |
CBS News
ⓘ
United Press International ⓘ
surface form:
United Press
United Press International ⓘ |
| endTime | 1981 (as anchor of CBS Evening News) ⓘ |
| familyName |
Walter Cronkite
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Cronkite
|
| fieldOfWork |
broadcasting
ⓘ
journalism ⓘ |
| fullName |
Walter Cronkite
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Walter Leland Cronkite Jr.
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| genre | television news ⓘ |
| givenName | Walter ⓘ |
| marriageEnd | 2005 (death of Mary Elizabeth Maxwell) ⓘ |
| marriageStart | 1940 (to Mary Elizabeth Maxwell) ⓘ |
| nickname | the most trusted man in America ⓘ |
| notableQuote | And that's the way it is ⓘ |
| notableWork | CBS Evening News ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 3 ⓘ |
| occupation |
broadcast journalist
ⓘ
news anchor ⓘ television producer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
St. Joseph, Missouri
ⓘ
surface form:
St. Joseph, Missouri, United States
|
| placeOfDeath |
New York City
ⓘ
surface form:
New York City, New York, United States
|
| politicalAffiliation |
Democratic Party
ⓘ
surface form:
Democratic Party (United States)
|
| positionHeld | anchor of CBS Evening News ⓘ |
| religion | Episcopal Church ⓘ |
| reportedOn |
Tet Offensive
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surface form:
1968 Tet Offensive
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| residence |
New York City
ⓘ
surface form:
New York City, New York, United States
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| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Mary Elizabeth Maxwell ⓘ |
| startTime | 1962 (as anchor of CBS Evening News) ⓘ |
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: Walter Cronkite Description of subject: Walter Cronkite was a legendary American broadcast journalist and longtime CBS Evening News anchor, widely regarded as "the most trusted man in America" during the mid-20th century.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Walter Leland Cronkite Jr.
this entity surface form:
Cronkite
subject surface form:
Spaceship Earth (EPCOT pavilion)