Jeffrey Skilling
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Jeffrey Skilling is the former CEO of Enron who became a central figure in one of the largest corporate fraud cases in U.S. history.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jeffrey Skilling canonical | 15 |
| Jeffrey K. Skilling | 1 |
| Jeffrey Keith Skilling | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1064289 — 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: Jeffrey Skilling Context triple: [Enron accounting scandal, keyPerson, Jeffrey Skilling]
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A.
Kenneth Lay
Kenneth Lay was the longtime chairman and CEO of Enron, widely known for his central role in the massive Enron corporate fraud and accounting scandal of the early 2000s.
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B.
Edward Lampert
Edward Lampert is an American billionaire investor and hedge fund manager best known for orchestrating the merger of Sears and Kmart and serving as the longtime chairman of Sears Holdings.
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C.
Jordan Belfort
Jordan Belfort is an American former stockbroker and motivational speaker best known for his high-flying, fraudulent Wall Street career and subsequent memoir "The Wolf of Wall Street."
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D.
Carl Icahn
Carl Icahn is an American billionaire investor and corporate raider known for his aggressive activist investing strategies and significant influence on Wall Street.
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E.
Gordon Gekko
Gordon Gekko is a fictional, ruthlessly ambitious corporate raider and symbol of 1980s Wall Street greed from the film "Wall Street."
- 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: Jeffrey Skilling Target entity description: Jeffrey Skilling is the former CEO of Enron who became a central figure in one of the largest corporate fraud cases in U.S. history.
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A.
Kenneth Lay
Kenneth Lay was the longtime chairman and CEO of Enron, widely known for his central role in the massive Enron corporate fraud and accounting scandal of the early 2000s.
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B.
Edward Lampert
Edward Lampert is an American billionaire investor and hedge fund manager best known for orchestrating the merger of Sears and Kmart and serving as the longtime chairman of Sears Holdings.
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C.
Jordan Belfort
Jordan Belfort is an American former stockbroker and motivational speaker best known for his high-flying, fraudulent Wall Street career and subsequent memoir "The Wolf of Wall Street."
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D.
Carl Icahn
Carl Icahn is an American billionaire investor and corporate raider known for his aggressive activist investing strategies and significant influence on Wall Street.
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E.
Gordon Gekko
Gordon Gekko is a fictional, ruthlessly ambitious corporate raider and symbol of 1980s Wall Street greed from the film "Wall Street."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
business executive
ⓘ
convicted fraudster ⓘ human ⓘ |
| academicDegree |
Bachelor of Science in Applied Science
ⓘ
Master of Business Administration ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Enron scandal
ⓘ
linked to:
Enron accounting scandal
|
| chargedWith |
conspiracy
ⓘ
insider trading ⓘ making false statements to auditors ⓘ securities fraud ⓘ |
| child | three children (including late son John Skilling) ⓘ |
| convictedOf |
conspiracy
ⓘ
insider trading ⓘ making false statements to auditors ⓘ securities fraud ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1953-11-25 ⓘ |
| dateOfResignation | 2001-08 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard Business School
ⓘ
Southern Methodist University ⓘ |
| employer | Enron ⓘ |
| familyName | Skilling ⓘ |
| fine | $45,000,000 in restitution and fines (approximate) ⓘ |
| fullName |
Jeffrey Keith Skilling
ⓘ
linked to:
Jeffrey Skilling
|
| givenName | Jeffrey ⓘ |
| incarceratedAt |
Federal Correctional Institution Englewood
ⓘ
Federal Prison Camp Montgomery ⓘ |
| industry | energy ⓘ |
| legalAppeal |
Skilling v. United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States v. Skilling
|
| legalCase | United States v. Skilling ⓘ |
| notableFor |
involvement in one of the largest corporate fraud cases in U.S. history
ⓘ
role in Enron accounting fraud scandal ⓘ use and promotion of mark-to-market accounting at Enron ⓘ |
| numberOfCountsConvicted | 19 ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
|
| portrayedBy | actor in documentary reenactments in "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room" ⓘ |
| portrayedIn |
film "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room"
ⓘ
linked to:
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
|
| positionHeld |
Chief Executive Officer of Enron
ⓘ
Chief Operating Officer of Enron ⓘ Head of Enron Finance Corp. ⓘ President of Enron ⓘ |
| reasonForResignation | claimed personal reasons ⓘ |
| releaseFromPrisonDate | 2019-02 ⓘ |
| sentencedTo | 24 years and 4 months in federal prison ⓘ |
| sentenceReducedTo | 14 years ⓘ |
| sibling | Tom Skilling ⓘ |
| siblingOccupation | Tom Skilling is a television meteorologist ⓘ |
| spouse |
Rebecca Carter
ⓘ
Susan Long (divorced) ⓘ |
| USSupremeCourtDecision | 2010 Skilling v. United States decision narrowing honest-services fraud statute ⓘ |
| workPeriod | 1990-2001 at Enron ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Jeffrey Skilling Description of subject: Jeffrey Skilling is the former CEO of Enron who became a central figure in one of the largest corporate fraud cases in U.S. history.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Jeffrey Skilling
linked to: Jeffrey Skilling
subject linked to:
Skilling
subject linked to:
Susan Long (divorced)
subject linked to:
Susan Long (divorced)