Krulwich
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Krulwich is the surname of Robert Krulwich, an American journalist best known as a longtime co-host of the radio show and podcast Radiolab.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Krulwich canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7536387 — 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: Krulwich Context triple: [Robert Krulwich, familyName, Krulwich]
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A.
Krafft
Krafft is a variant spelling of the surname Kraft, which is of German origin and borne by various notable individuals.
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B.
Keeler
Keeler is a surname most notably associated with James Edward Keeler, an American astronomer known for his pioneering work on Saturn's rings and spectroscopy.
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C.
Sagan
Sagan is a town in present-day Żagań, Poland, historically known as a center where the astronomer Johannes Kepler conducted part of his scientific work.
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D.
Sagan
Sagan is a surname most famously associated with astronomer and science communicator Carl Sagan and his family.
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E.
Slartibartfast
Slartibartfast is a whimsical, elderly Magrathean planet designer from Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series, best known for his fondness for crafting fjords.
- 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: Krulwich Target entity description: Krulwich is the surname of Robert Krulwich, an American journalist best known as a longtime co-host of the radio show and podcast Radiolab.
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A.
Krafft
Krafft is a variant spelling of the surname Kraft, which is of German origin and borne by various notable individuals.
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B.
Keeler
Keeler is a surname most notably associated with James Edward Keeler, an American astronomer known for his pioneering work on Saturn's rings and spectroscopy.
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C.
Sagan
Sagan is a town in present-day Żagań, Poland, historically known as a center where the astronomer Johannes Kepler conducted part of his scientific work.
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D.
Sagan
Sagan is a surname most famously associated with astronomer and science communicator Carl Sagan and his family.
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E.
Slartibartfast
Slartibartfast is a whimsical, elderly Magrathean planet designer from Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series, best known for his fondness for crafting fjords.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
journalist ⓘ podcast ⓘ podcaster ⓘ radio journalist ⓘ radio program ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer |
WNYC
ⓘ
linked to:
WNYC Studios
|
| familyName | Krulwich ⓘ |
| genre | science radio program ⓘ |
| givenName | Robert ⓘ |
| hasHost |
Jad Abumrad
ⓘ
Robert Krulwich ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Robert Krulwich ⓘ |
| knownFor | co-hosting Radiolab ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| notableWork | Radiolab ⓘ |
| occupation |
journalist
ⓘ
podcast host ⓘ radio host ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| producer |
WNYC
ⓘ
linked to:
WNYC Studios
|
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: Krulwich Description of subject: Krulwich is the surname of Robert Krulwich, an American journalist best known as a longtime co-host of the radio show and podcast Radiolab.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Krulwich