Robert Krulwich
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Robert Krulwich is an American journalist and broadcaster best known for his imaginative science storytelling on public radio and television, including co-hosting the show Radiolab.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Robert Krulwich canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1555509 — 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: Robert Krulwich Context triple: [NOVA ScienceNow, hasHost, Robert Krulwich]
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A.
Robert Siegel
Robert Siegel is an American architect best known as a co-founder and principal of the modernist firm Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects.
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B.
Bill Nye
Bill Nye is an American mechanical engineer, science educator, and television presenter best known for hosting the educational show "Bill Nye the Science Guy" and popularizing science for children and the general public.
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C.
Michael Shermer
Michael Shermer is an American science writer, historian of science, and founder of *Skeptic* magazine, known for promoting scientific skepticism and critical thinking about paranormal and pseudoscientific claims.
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D.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Neil deGrasse Tyson is an American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator known for popularizing astronomy and hosting shows like "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey."
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E.
Jeffrey Kluger
Jeffrey Kluger is an American science and technology journalist and author best known for co-writing the book about the Apollo 13 mission that inspired the film adaptation.
- 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: Robert Krulwich Target entity description: Robert Krulwich is an American journalist and broadcaster best known for his imaginative science storytelling on public radio and television, including co-hosting the show Radiolab.
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A.
Robert Siegel
Robert Siegel is an American architect best known as a co-founder and principal of the modernist firm Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects.
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B.
Bill Nye
Bill Nye is an American mechanical engineer, science educator, and television presenter best known for hosting the educational show "Bill Nye the Science Guy" and popularizing science for children and the general public.
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C.
Michael Shermer
Michael Shermer is an American science writer, historian of science, and founder of *Skeptic* magazine, known for promoting scientific skepticism and critical thinking about paranormal and pseudoscientific claims.
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D.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Neil deGrasse Tyson is an American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator known for popularizing astronomy and hosting shows like "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey."
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E.
Jeffrey Kluger
Jeffrey Kluger is an American science and technology journalist and author best known for co-writing the book about the Apollo 13 mission that inspired the film adaptation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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journalist ⓘ radio broadcaster ⓘ science communicator ⓘ |
| activeIn |
20th-century journalism
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21st-century journalism ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
National Academy of Sciences Communication Award
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Peabody Award ⓘ |
| basedIn | New York City ⓘ |
| coHosted | Radiolab ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Columbia Law School
ⓘ
Oberlin College ⓘ |
| employer |
ABC News
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CBS News ⓘ National Public Radio ⓘ Public Radio International ⓘ WNYC Studios ⓘ
surface form:
WNYC
|
| familyName | Krulwich ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
broadcast journalism
ⓘ
science journalism ⓘ |
| genre |
explanatory journalism
ⓘ
science communication ⓘ |
| givenName | Robert ⓘ |
| hasCollaborator | Jad Abumrad ⓘ |
| hasRole |
commentator
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correspondent ⓘ host ⓘ |
| hasWorkedOn | television news programs ⓘ |
| knownFor |
imaginative science storytelling
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public radio broadcasting ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| medium |
podcasts
ⓘ
radio ⓘ television ⓘ |
| name | Robert Krulwich self-link ⓘ |
| notableWork |
NPR science reports
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Radiolab ⓘ science explainers on NPR ⓘ |
| occupation |
journalist
ⓘ
radio host ⓘ science reporter ⓘ television reporter ⓘ |
| partOf |
WNYC Studios
ⓘ
surface form:
Radiolab team
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: Robert Krulwich Description of subject: Robert Krulwich is an American journalist and broadcaster best known for his imaginative science storytelling on public radio and television, including co-hosting the show Radiolab.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.