David Muir
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David Muir is an American journalist and television news anchor best known as the longtime anchor of ABC’s flagship evening newscast.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Muir canonical | 3 |
| ABC World News with David Muir | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5761952 — 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: David Muir Context triple: [World News Tonight, hasHost, David Muir]
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A.
Lester Holt
Lester Holt is an American television journalist and news anchor best known for anchoring NBC's flagship evening news program and moderating major political debates.
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B.
Scott Pelley
Scott Pelley is an American broadcast journalist best known as a longtime correspondent for CBS’s investigative news program 60 Minutes and a former anchor of the CBS Evening News.
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C.
Bret Baier
Bret Baier is an American television news anchor and chief political anchor for Fox News, best known for hosting the network’s flagship evening news program.
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D.
Jake Tapper
Jake Tapper is an American journalist, author, and longtime CNN anchor known for his political reporting and nonfiction books.
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E.
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.
- 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: David Muir Target entity description: David Muir is an American journalist and television news anchor best known as the longtime anchor of ABC’s flagship evening newscast.
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A.
Lester Holt
Lester Holt is an American television journalist and news anchor best known for anchoring NBC's flagship evening news program and moderating major political debates.
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B.
Scott Pelley
Scott Pelley is an American broadcast journalist best known as a longtime correspondent for CBS’s investigative news program 60 Minutes and a former anchor of the CBS Evening News.
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C.
Bret Baier
Bret Baier is an American television news anchor and chief political anchor for Fox News, best known for hosting the network’s flagship evening news program.
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D.
Jake Tapper
Jake Tapper is an American journalist, author, and longtime CNN anchor known for his political reporting and nonfiction books.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
journalist ⓘ news presenter ⓘ television news anchor ⓘ |
| activeIn | 21st century journalism ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Edward R. Murrow Award
ⓘ
Emmy Award ⓘ |
| basedIn | New York City ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| covered |
U.S. presidential elections
ⓘ
linked to:
United States presidential election
international news events ⓘ major breaking news events in the United States ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Ithaca College ⓘ |
| employer |
ABC News
ⓘ
American Broadcasting Company ⓘ |
| familyName | Muir ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
broadcast journalism
ⓘ
television journalism ⓘ |
| genre | television news ⓘ |
| givenName | David ⓘ |
| hasPartIn | ABC News special reports ⓘ |
| hasProfession |
correspondent
ⓘ
news anchor ⓘ television host ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mediaType | television ⓘ |
| name | David Muir ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| network | American Broadcasting Company ⓘ |
| notableFor | anchoring ABC’s flagship evening newscast ⓘ |
| notableRole | lead anchor for breaking news at ABC News ⓘ |
| notableWork |
ABC World News Tonight
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linked to:
World News Tonight
|
| occupation |
journalist
ⓘ
news presenter ⓘ television news anchor ⓘ |
| partOf | ABC News anchor team ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
anchor of ABC World News Tonight
ⓘ
managing editor of ABC World News Tonight ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spokeAt | various journalism conferences ⓘ |
| worksFor | ABC 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: David Muir Description of subject: David Muir is an American journalist and television news anchor best known as the longtime anchor of ABC’s flagship evening newscast.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: David Muir