Edward R. Murrow
E387034
Edward R. Murrow was a pioneering American broadcast journalist renowned for his World War II radio reports and his influential television exposés that challenged McCarthyism.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Edward R. Murrow canonical | 13 |
| Charles Casey Murrow | 1 |
| Edward R. Murrow: An American Original | 1 |
| Edward Roscoe Murrow | 1 |
| Janet Murrow | 1 |
| Murrow | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3759637 — 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.
Target entity: Edward R. Murrow Context triple: [Good Night, and Good Luck, mainSubject, Edward R. Murrow]
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A.
Lacey V. Murrow
Lacey V. Murrow was a prominent Washington State highway engineer and public official, known for his leadership in developing major transportation infrastructure in the Pacific Northwest.
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B.
Walter Cronkite
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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C.
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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D.
Douglas Edwards
Douglas Edwards was an American broadcast journalist best known as the first network television news anchor in the United States, leading CBS’s flagship evening newscast in the early years of TV news.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Edward R. Murrow Target entity description: Edward R. Murrow was a pioneering American broadcast journalist renowned for his World War II radio reports and his influential television exposés that challenged McCarthyism.
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A.
Lacey V. Murrow
Lacey V. Murrow was a prominent Washington State highway engineer and public official, known for his leadership in developing major transportation infrastructure in the Pacific Northwest.
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B.
Walter Cronkite
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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C.
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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D.
Douglas Edwards
Douglas Edwards was an American broadcast journalist best known as the first network television news anchor in the United States, leading CBS’s flagship evening newscast in the early years of TV news.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
broadcast journalist
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human ⓘ journalist ⓘ radio journalist ⓘ television journalist ⓘ war correspondent ⓘ |
| almaMater |
Washington State University
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surface form:
Washington State College
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| appointedBy | John F. Kennedy ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Peabody Award
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Presidential Medal of Freedom ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1908-04-25 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Guilford County
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surface form:
Guilford County, North Carolina, United States
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| causeOfDeath | lung cancer ⓘ |
| child |
Edward R. Murrow
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Charles Casey Murrow
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1965-04-27 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Pawling
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surface form:
Pawling, New York, United States
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| educatedAt | Washington State University ⓘ |
| employer |
CBS News
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Columbia Broadcasting System ⓘ |
| familyName |
Edward R. Murrow
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Murrow
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| fieldOfWork |
broadcasting
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journalism ⓘ |
| fullName |
Edward R. Murrow
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Edward Roscoe Murrow
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| genre |
investigative journalism
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news reporting ⓘ |
| givenName | Edward ⓘ |
| hasSignature | signature of Edward R. Murrow ⓘ |
| influenced |
American broadcast journalism standards
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later television newsmagazine formats ⓘ |
| knownFor |
World War II radio reports from Europe
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pioneering broadcast journalism ⓘ television exposés on McCarthyism ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Person to Person
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See It Now ⓘ World War II radio broadcasts from London ⓘ |
| occupation |
journalist
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radio broadcaster ⓘ television host ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
director of talks at CBS
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director of the United States Information Agency ⓘ vice president of CBS ⓘ |
| reportedFrom |
London, England
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surface form:
London, United Kingdom
Nazi Germany ⓘ Western Front of World War II ⓘ
surface form:
Western Front during World War II
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| smokingStatus | heavy smoker ⓘ |
| spouse |
Edward R. Murrow
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Janet Murrow
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| subjectOf |
Good Night, and Good Luck
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surface form:
film "Good Night, and Good Luck"
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How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: Edward R. Murrow Description of subject: Edward R. Murrow was a pioneering American broadcast journalist renowned for his World War II radio reports and his influential television exposés that challenged McCarthyism.
Referenced by (18)
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