Richard J. Riordan
E120895
Richard J. Riordan was an American businessman, philanthropist, and Republican politician who served as mayor of Los Angeles from 1993 to 2001.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Richard J. Riordan canonical | 2 |
| Riordan & McKinzie | 2 |
| Richard Riordan | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T846081 — 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: Richard J. Riordan Context triple: [Los Angeles Public Library, centralLibraryNamedAfter, Richard J. Riordan]
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A.
Michael V. Drake
Michael V. Drake is an American academic leader and physician who has served as president of both The Ohio State University and the University of California system.
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B.
Pierce Anderson
Pierce Anderson was an American architect best known for his work with the firm Graham, Anderson, Probst & White, contributing to major Beaux-Arts and classical revival buildings in the early 20th century.
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C.
John Stephens
John Stephens is an author best known for writing the children's fantasy novel "The Emerald Atlas" and its sequels in the Books of Beginning series.
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D.
Martin J. Hillenbrand
Martin J. Hillenbrand was an American career diplomat who held several key Cold War-era posts, including serving as U.S. Ambassador to Hungary and later to the Federal Republic of Germany.
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E.
Jared C. Nicholson
Jared C. Nicholson is an American politician and attorney who serves as the mayor of Lynn, Massachusetts.
- 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: Richard J. Riordan Target entity description: Richard J. Riordan was an American businessman, philanthropist, and Republican politician who served as mayor of Los Angeles from 1993 to 2001.
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A.
Michael V. Drake
Michael V. Drake is an American academic leader and physician who has served as president of both The Ohio State University and the University of California system.
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B.
Pierce Anderson
Pierce Anderson was an American architect best known for his work with the firm Graham, Anderson, Probst & White, contributing to major Beaux-Arts and classical revival buildings in the early 20th century.
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C.
John Stephens
John Stephens is an author best known for writing the children's fantasy novel "The Emerald Atlas" and its sequels in the Books of Beginning series.
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D.
Martin J. Hillenbrand
Martin J. Hillenbrand was an American career diplomat who held several key Cold War-era posts, including serving as U.S. Ambassador to Hungary and later to the Federal Republic of Germany.
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E.
Jared C. Nicholson
Jared C. Nicholson is an American politician and attorney who serves as the mayor of Lynn, Massachusetts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Richard J. Riordan Description of subject: Richard J. Riordan was an American businessman, philanthropist, and Republican politician who served as mayor of Los Angeles from 1993 to 2001.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Richard J. Riordan
linked to: Richard J. Riordan
linked to: Richard J. Riordan