Don Lemon
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Don Lemon is an American television journalist and former CNN anchor known for hosting the prime-time program "CNN Tonight with Don Lemon" and co-anchoring major live events.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Don Lemon canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7222775 — 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: Don Lemon Context triple: [New Year’s Eve Live on CNN, hasFormerHost, Don Lemon]
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A.
Lou Carducci
Lou Carducci is a fictional character played by American actress and model Mackenzie Foy.
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B.
Mike Tirico
Mike Tirico is an American sportscaster best known for his play-by-play work on major NFL and other marquee sports broadcasts for NBC and previously ESPN.
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C.
Jonathan Karl
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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D.
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.
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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: Don Lemon Target entity description: Don Lemon is an American television journalist and former CNN anchor known for hosting the prime-time program "CNN Tonight with Don Lemon" and co-anchoring major live events.
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A.
Lou Carducci
Lou Carducci is a fictional character played by American actress and model Mackenzie Foy.
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B.
Mike Tirico
Mike Tirico is an American sportscaster best known for his play-by-play work on major NFL and other marquee sports broadcasts for NBC and previously ESPN.
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C.
Jonathan Karl
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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D.
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.
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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 (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
news anchor ⓘ television journalist ⓘ |
| birthName | Don Carlton Lemon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| coveredEvent |
2012 United States presidential election
NERFINISHED
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2016 United States presidential election NERFINISHED ⓘ 2020 United States presidential election NERFINISHED ⓘ Black Lives Matter protests NERFINISHED ⓘ Hurricane Katrina NERFINISHED ⓘ death of Michael Brown and Ferguson unrest ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1966-03-01 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Brooklyn College
NERFINISHED
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Louisiana State University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
CNN
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
CNN This Morning NERFINISHED ⓘ KTVI NERFINISHED ⓘ MSNBC NERFINISHED ⓘ NBC News NERFINISHED ⓘ WBRC NERFINISHED ⓘ WCAU NERFINISHED ⓘ WWL-TV NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Black Americans
ⓘ
surface form:
African Americans
|
| familyName | Lemon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
political commentary
ⓘ
television news ⓘ |
| givenName | Don NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.donlemon.com/ ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Don Lemon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAward |
Edward R. Murrow Award
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Emmy Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
on-air discussions of race and politics in the United States
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prime-time news and commentary on CNN ⓘ |
| notableWork |
CNN Tonight with Don Lemon
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Don Lemon Tonight NERFINISHED ⓘ The Don Lemon Show NERFINISHED ⓘ This Is the Fire: What I Say to My Friends About Racism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
journalist
ⓘ
television news anchor ⓘ television presenter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
co-anchor of CNN This Morning
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host of CNN Tonight with Don Lemon ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| sexualOrientation | gay ⓘ |
| spouse | Tim Malone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Don Lemon Description of subject: Don Lemon is an American television journalist and former CNN anchor known for hosting the prime-time program "CNN Tonight with Don Lemon" and co-anchoring major live events.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.