Ira Glass
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Ira Glass is an American public radio personality best known as the creator and longtime host of the narrative journalism program "This American Life."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ira Glass canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6703930 — 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: Ira Glass Context triple: [Millburn High School, hasNotableAlumnus, Ira Glass]
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A.
Raney Aronson-Rath
Raney Aronson-Rath is an American journalist and documentary filmmaker best known as the executive producer and editor-in-chief of PBS’s investigative series Frontline.
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B.
Robert Siegel
Robert Siegel is an American architect best known as a co-founder and principal of the modernist firm Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects.
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C.
Robert Krulwich
Robert Krulwich is an American journalist and broadcaster best known for his imaginative science storytelling on public radio and television, including co-hosting the show Radiolab.
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D.
David Key
David Key was a 19th-century American politician who served as U.S. Postmaster General under President Rutherford B. Hayes and later as a federal judge.
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E.
Nick Barbaro
Nick Barbaro is an American media entrepreneur and publisher best known as a co-founder of the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival in Austin, Texas.
- 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: Ira Glass Target entity description: Ira Glass is an American public radio personality best known as the creator and longtime host of the narrative journalism program "This American Life."
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A.
Raney Aronson-Rath
Raney Aronson-Rath is an American journalist and documentary filmmaker best known as the executive producer and editor-in-chief of PBS’s investigative series Frontline.
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B.
Robert Siegel
Robert Siegel is an American architect best known as a co-founder and principal of the modernist firm Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects.
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C.
Robert Krulwich
Robert Krulwich is an American journalist and broadcaster best known for his imaginative science storytelling on public radio and television, including co-hosting the show Radiolab.
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D.
David Key
David Key was a 19th-century American politician who served as U.S. Postmaster General under President Rutherford B. Hayes and later as a federal judge.
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E.
Nick Barbaro
Nick Barbaro is an American media entrepreneur and publisher best known as a co-founder of the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival in Austin, Texas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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journalist ⓘ radio host ⓘ radio producer ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1970s ⓘ |
| basedIn | New York City ⓘ |
| coCreated | "This American Life" television adaptation ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| creatorOf | This American Life NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1959-03-03 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Brown University ⓘ |
| employer |
National Public Radio
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
WBEZ NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Glass NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
journalism
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radio broadcasting ⓘ storytelling ⓘ |
| fullName | Ira Jeffrey Glass NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | narrative journalism ⓘ |
| givenName | Ira NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEthnicity | Jewish ⓘ |
| hasRole |
executive producer of "This American Life"
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host of "This American Life" ⓘ |
| influencedBy | public radio tradition of narrative storytelling ⓘ |
| knownFor | hosting the radio program "This American Life" ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| medium | public radio ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableAward |
Edward R. Murrow Award
NERFINISHED
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George Polk Award NERFINISHED ⓘ Peabody Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | This American Life NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
journalist
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radio host ⓘ radio producer ⓘ television producer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Baltimore, Maryland, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relative | Philip Glass NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
New York City
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surface form:
New York City, New York, United States
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| spouse | Anaheed Alani NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startedWorkingInRadioAtAge | 19 ⓘ |
| website | https://www.thisamericanlife.org ⓘ |
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: Ira Glass Description of subject: Ira Glass is an American public radio personality best known as the creator and longtime host of the narrative journalism program "This American Life."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.