Angelo Mozilo
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Angelo Mozilo was an American businessman best known as the co-founder and longtime CEO of Countrywide Financial, a major mortgage lender heavily implicated in the subprime mortgage crisis.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Angelo Mozilo canonical | 2 |
| Angelo Robert Mozilo | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13273671 — 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: Angelo Mozilo Context triple: [Countrywide Financial, foundedBy, Angelo Mozilo]
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A.
Howard Amacker
Howard Amacker was a screenwriter best known for his work on mid-20th-century American Western films, including the 1959 movie "No Name on the Bullet."
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B.
Richard B. Fisher
Richard B. Fisher was a prominent American financier and philanthropist whose support for the arts led to the naming of the Fisher Center for the Performing Arts in his honor.
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C.
Eric Rosse
Eric Rosse is an American record producer and songwriter best known for his work with artists like Tori Amos and Sara Bareilles.
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D.
Leo Fuld
Leo Fuld was a Dutch Jewish singer and songwriter renowned for his emotive performances of Yiddish songs and his role in popularizing Jewish music internationally in the mid-20th century.
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E.
Felix Fuld
Felix Fuld was a prominent American businessman and co-founder of the Newark-based department store Bamberger's, later part of Macy's.
- 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: Angelo Mozilo Target entity description: Angelo Mozilo was an American businessman best known as the co-founder and longtime CEO of Countrywide Financial, a major mortgage lender heavily implicated in the subprime mortgage crisis.
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A.
Howard Amacker
Howard Amacker was a screenwriter best known for his work on mid-20th-century American Western films, including the 1959 movie "No Name on the Bullet."
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B.
Richard B. Fisher
Richard B. Fisher was a prominent American financier and philanthropist whose support for the arts led to the naming of the Fisher Center for the Performing Arts in his honor.
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C.
Eric Rosse
Eric Rosse is an American record producer and songwriter best known for his work with artists like Tori Amos and Sara Bareilles.
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D.
Leo Fuld
Leo Fuld was a Dutch Jewish singer and songwriter renowned for his emotive performances of Yiddish songs and his role in popularizing Jewish music internationally in the mid-20th century.
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E.
Felix Fuld
Felix Fuld was a prominent American businessman and co-founder of the Newark-based department store Bamberger's, later part of Macy's.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
businessperson
ⓘ
chief executive officer ⓘ founder ⓘ human ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Horatio Alger Award ⓘ |
| coFounded | Countrywide Financial ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1938-12-16 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2023-07-16 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Fordham University
ⓘ
Fordham University School of Business ⓘ |
| employer | Countrywide Financial ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Italian American ⓘ |
| familyName | Mozilo ⓘ |
| founded | Countrywide Financial ⓘ |
| fullName |
Angelo Robert Mozilo
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linked to:
Angelo Mozilo
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| givenName | Angelo ⓘ |
| hasChild | three children ⓘ |
| industry |
financial services
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mortgage lending ⓘ |
| knownFor |
aggressive expansion of subprime mortgage lending at Countrywide
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high executive compensation at Countrywide ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Republican Party (United States)
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linked to:
Republican Party
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| notableFor |
co-founding Countrywide Financial
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role in the subprime mortgage crisis ⓘ serving as CEO of Countrywide Financial ⓘ |
| occupation |
banker
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business executive ⓘ entrepreneur ⓘ |
| paidFine | SEC civil penalties and disgorgement ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
New York
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
Montecito, California ⓘ
linked to:
Montecito, California, United States
United States of America ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
chairman of Countrywide Financial
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chief executive officer of Countrywide Financial ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| residence |
California
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linked to:
California, United States
Montecito, California ⓘ
linked to:
Montecito, California, United States
United States of America ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| startTime | 1969 ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
SEC settlement in 2010
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United States Securities and Exchange Commission civil fraud case ⓘ insider trading allegations ⓘ |
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: Angelo Mozilo Description of subject: Angelo Mozilo was an American businessman best known as the co-founder and longtime CEO of Countrywide Financial, a major mortgage lender heavily implicated in the subprime mortgage crisis.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Angelo Mozilo