Jonathan Karl
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Jonathan Karl is an American political journalist and author best known as ABC News’ chief Washington correspondent and a frequent host of the Sunday public affairs program "This Week."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jonathan Karl canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5762085 — 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)
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Target entity: Jonathan Karl Context triple: [This Week, presenter, Jonathan Karl]
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A.
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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B.
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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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.
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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E.
Ben Maddow
Ben Maddow was an American screenwriter and documentary filmmaker known for his work on classic mid-20th-century films and socially conscious cinema.
- 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: Jonathan Karl Target entity description: Jonathan Karl is an American political journalist and author best known as ABC News’ chief Washington correspondent and a frequent host of the Sunday public affairs program "This Week."
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A.
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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B.
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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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.
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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E.
Ben Maddow
Ben Maddow was an American screenwriter and documentary filmmaker known for his work on classic mid-20th-century films and socially conscious cinema.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
journalist ⓘ non-fiction writer ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Emmy Award
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Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Television Political Journalism ⓘ White House Correspondents’ Association awards ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| covered |
Donald Trump administration
ⓘ
linked to:
Trump administration
U.S. Congress ⓘ
linked to:
United States Congress
U.S. presidential elections ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Vassar College ⓘ |
| employer |
ABC News
ⓘ
CNN (former) ⓘ
linked to:
CNN
New York Post (former) ⓘ
linked to:
New York Post
The Weekly Standard (former) ⓘ
linked to:
The Weekly Standard
|
| familyName | Karl ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
broadcast journalism
ⓘ
political journalism ⓘ |
| genre | political non-fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Jonathan ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
White House Correspondents’ Association
ⓘ
linked to:
White House Correspondents' Association
|
| name | Jonathan Karl ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableAppearance |
ABC News program "This Week"
ⓘ
linked to:
This Week with George Stephanopoulos
ABC News special political coverage broadcasts ⓘ |
| notableFor |
coverage of the Trump White House
ⓘ
hosting the Sunday public affairs program "This Week" ⓘ |
| notableRole | frequent moderator of political roundtable discussions on ABC News ⓘ |
| notableWork |
"Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show"
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"Front Row at the Trump Show" ⓘ "Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party" ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
ⓘ
correspondent ⓘ journalist ⓘ television presenter ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Chief Washington correspondent at ABC News
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White House chief correspondent at ABC News ⓘ co-anchor of "This Week" on ABC News ⓘ president of the White House Correspondents’ Association ⓘ |
| residence |
Washington, D.C. metropolitan area
ⓘ
linked to:
Washington metropolitan area
|
| workLocation | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
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: Jonathan Karl Description of subject: Jonathan Karl is an American political journalist and author best known as ABC News’ chief Washington correspondent and a frequent host of the Sunday public affairs program "This Week."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.