Dan Rather
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Dan Rather is an American journalist and former CBS Evening News anchor known for his hard-hitting reporting and decades-long presence on national television news.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dan Rather canonical | 4 |
| Dan Rather Jr. | 1 |
| Dan Rather Reports | 1 |
| Daniel Irvin Rather Jr. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1737303 — 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: Dan Rather Context triple: [60 Minutes, notableCorrespondent, Dan Rather]
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A.
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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B.
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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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.
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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E.
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.
- 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: Dan Rather Target entity description: Dan Rather is an American journalist and former CBS Evening News anchor known for his hard-hitting reporting and decades-long presence on national television news.
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A.
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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B.
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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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.
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
author
ⓘ
human ⓘ journalist ⓘ television news anchor ⓘ war correspondent ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Edward R. Murrow Award
ⓘ
Emmy Award ⓘ Peabody Award ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1931-10-31 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Sam Houston State University
ⓘ
surface form:
Sam Houston State Teachers College
Sam Houston State University ⓘ |
| employer |
60 Minutes
ⓘ
AXS TV ⓘ CBS ⓘ CBS Evening News ⓘ CBS News ⓘ CBS News ⓘ
surface form:
CBS Reports
HDNet ⓘ |
| endTime | 2005-03-09 ⓘ |
| familyName | Rather ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
broadcast journalism
ⓘ
investigative journalism ⓘ |
| fullName |
Dan Rather
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Daniel Irvin Rather Jr.
|
| genre | television news ⓘ |
| givenName | Daniel ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Dan Rather
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Dan Rather Jr.
Robin Rather ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
covered the Vietnam War as a correspondent
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covered the Watergate scandal ⓘ covered the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963 ⓘ interviewed Saddam Hussein in 2003 ⓘ involved in 2004 Killian documents controversy regarding George W. Bush’s National Guard service ⓘ reported from Dallas during the JFK assassination coverage ⓘ |
| notableWork |
60 Minutes
ⓘ
CBS Evening News ⓘ
surface form:
CBS Evening News with Dan Rather
Dan Rather self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Dan Rather Reports
Rather Outspoken: My Life in the News ⓘ The Big Interview with Dan Rather ⓘ The Camera Never Blinks ⓘ The Camera Never Blinks ⓘ
surface form:
The Camera Never Blinks Twice
|
| occupation |
journalist
ⓘ
news anchor ⓘ television producer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Wharton, Texas
ⓘ
surface form:
Wharton, Texas, United States
|
| positionHeld |
CBS News chief Washington correspondent
ⓘ
surface form:
White House correspondent for CBS News
anchor of CBS Evening News ⓘ correspondent for 60 Minutes ⓘ foreign correspondent for CBS News ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| spouse | Jean Goebel ⓘ |
| startTime | 1981-03-09 ⓘ |
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: Dan Rather Description of subject: Dan Rather is an American journalist and former CBS Evening News anchor known for his hard-hitting reporting and decades-long presence on national television news.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Daniel Irvin Rather Jr.
this entity surface form:
Dan Rather Reports
this entity surface form:
Dan Rather Jr.