Judy Woodruff
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Judy Woodruff is an American broadcast journalist best known for her long tenure as a leading anchor and managing editor of PBS’s flagship news program.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Judy Woodruff canonical | 3 |
| Judy Carline Woodruff | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2703979 — 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: Judy Woodruff Context triple: [PBS NewsHour, notableAnchor, Judy Woodruff]
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A.
Diane Sawyer
Diane Sawyer is an American television journalist best known for anchoring ABC News programs such as "ABC World News" and "Good Morning America."
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B.
Lesley Stahl
Lesley Stahl is an American television journalist best known for her long-running investigative and political reporting on the CBS news magazine program "60 Minutes."
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C.
Katie Couric
Katie Couric is an American journalist and television personality best known for anchoring major network news programs such as NBC's Today and the CBS Evening News.
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D.
Lara Logan
Lara Logan is a South African television and radio journalist best known for her high-profile foreign correspondence and war reporting for CBS News.
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E.
Norah O'Donnell
Norah O'Donnell is an American television journalist and news anchor best known for her work as a leading correspondent and anchor at CBS News.
- 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: Judy Woodruff Target entity description: Judy Woodruff is an American broadcast journalist best known for her long tenure as a leading anchor and managing editor of PBS’s flagship news program.
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A.
Diane Sawyer
Diane Sawyer is an American television journalist best known for anchoring ABC News programs such as "ABC World News" and "Good Morning America."
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B.
Lesley Stahl
Lesley Stahl is an American television journalist best known for her long-running investigative and political reporting on the CBS news magazine program "60 Minutes."
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C.
Katie Couric
Katie Couric is an American journalist and television personality best known for anchoring major network news programs such as NBC's Today and the CBS Evening News.
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D.
Lara Logan
Lara Logan is a South African television and radio journalist best known for her high-profile foreign correspondence and war reporting for CBS News.
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E.
Norah O'Donnell
Norah O'Donnell is an American television journalist and news anchor best known for her work as a leading correspondent and anchor at CBS News.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
author
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human ⓘ journalist ⓘ television news anchor ⓘ television personality ⓘ |
| academicDegree | Bachelor of Arts in Political Science ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Edward R. Murrow Award
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Emmy Award ⓘ Gwen Ifill Press Freedom Award ⓘ Peabody Award ⓘ Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism ⓘ |
| boardMemberOf |
Duke University Board of Trustees
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surface form:
Duke University Board of Trustees (former)
The Freedom Forum ⓘ The Newseum ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| coveredEvent |
United States presidential election
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surface form:
United States presidential elections
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| dateOfBirth | 1946-11-20 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Duke University ⓘ |
| employer |
CNN
ⓘ
NBC News ⓘ PBS NewsHour ⓘ PBS ⓘ
surface form:
Public Broadcasting Service
WAGA-TV ⓘ WRC-TV ⓘ |
| familyName | Woodruff ⓘ |
| fullName |
Judy Woodruff
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Judy Carline Woodruff
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| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Judy ⓘ |
| knownFor |
longtime anchor of PBS NewsHour
ⓘ
political reporting ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Council on Foreign Relations ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Frontline with Judy Woodruff
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Inside Politics ⓘ PBS NewsHour ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 3 ⓘ |
| occupation |
broadcast journalist
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news anchor ⓘ television reporter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
White House correspondent for NBC News
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anchor of PBS NewsHour ⓘ host of Inside Politics on CNN ⓘ managing editor of PBS NewsHour ⓘ senior correspondent for The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour ⓘ |
| religion | Methodism ⓘ |
| residence |
Washington, D.C.
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surface form:
Washington, D.C., United States
|
| spouse | Al Hunt ⓘ |
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: Judy Woodruff Description of subject: Judy Woodruff is an American broadcast journalist best known for her long tenure as a leading anchor and managing editor of PBS’s flagship news program.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Judy Carline Woodruff