Cory Booker
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Cory Booker is an American politician and U.S. Senator from New Jersey known for his progressive policies, advocacy for criminal justice reform, and charismatic public presence.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cory Booker canonical | 16 |
| Cory Anthony Booker | 1 |
| Cory Booker, 1,043,866 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1404444 — 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: Cory Booker Context triple: [Miss Representation, featuresInterviewWith, Cory Booker]
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A.
Frank Lautenberg
Frank Lautenberg was a long-serving United States Senator from New Jersey and a prominent Democratic politician known for his work on public health, transportation safety, and environmental legislation.
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B.
Benjamin Barron
Benjamin Barron was the husband of Elizabeth Parris, who was historically associated with the Salem witch trials.
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C.
Matt Santos
Matt Santos is a fictional U.S. congressman who becomes President in the television series "The West Wing."
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D.
Chris Cuomo
Chris Cuomo is an American television journalist and former CNN anchor known for hosting the prime-time news program "Cuomo Prime Time."
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E.
Bill Bradley
Bill Bradley is a Hall of Fame American basketball player and former U.S. senator who starred at Princeton University before winning NBA championships with the New York Knicks.
- 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: Cory Booker Target entity description: Cory Booker is an American politician and U.S. Senator from New Jersey known for his progressive policies, advocacy for criminal justice reform, and charismatic public presence.
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A.
Frank Lautenberg
Frank Lautenberg was a long-serving United States Senator from New Jersey and a prominent Democratic politician known for his work on public health, transportation safety, and environmental legislation.
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B.
Benjamin Barron
Benjamin Barron was the husband of Elizabeth Parris, who was historically associated with the Salem witch trials.
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C.
Matt Santos
Matt Santos is a fictional U.S. congressman who becomes President in the television series "The West Wing."
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D.
Chris Cuomo
Chris Cuomo is an American television journalist and former CNN anchor known for hosting the prime-time news program "Cuomo Prime Time."
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E.
Bill Bradley
Bill Bradley is a Hall of Fame American basketball player and former U.S. senator who starred at Princeton University before winning NBA championships with the New York Knicks.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Democratic Party politician
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United States senator ⓘ human ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| almaMater |
Stanford University
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The Queen's College, Oxford NERFINISHED ⓘ Yale Law School ⓘ |
| candidateIn | 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1969-04-27 ⓘ |
| degreeEarned |
Bachelor of Arts
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Juris Doctor ⓘ Master of Arts ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Stanford University
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The Queen's College, Oxford NERFINISHED ⓘ Yale Law School ⓘ |
| electedIn | 2013 special election for U.S. Senate in New Jersey ⓘ |
| endorsedCandidate | Joe Biden ⓘ |
| endTime | 2013-10-30 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
African Americans
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linked to:
Black Americans
|
| familyName | Booker ⓘ |
| fullName |
Cory Anthony Booker
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linked to:
Cory Booker
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Cory ⓘ |
| knownFor |
advocacy for criminal justice reform
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progressive politics ⓘ public speaking ⓘ use of social media in politics ⓘ |
| languagesSpoken | English ⓘ |
| mayorOf |
Newark, New Jersey
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linked to:
Newark
|
| memberOf |
United States Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
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United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations ⓘ
linked to:
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
United States Senate Committee on Judiciary ⓘ
linked to:
Senate Judiciary Committee
United States Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship ⓘ |
| notableWork | United: Thoughts on Finding Common Ground and Advancing the Common Good ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
ⓘ
lawyer ⓘ |
| officeStartFor |
United States Senator from New Jersey
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linked to:
United States Senator
|
| placeOfBirth |
Washington, D.C., United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Washington, D.C.
|
| politicalParty |
Democratic Party (United States)
ⓘ
linked to:
Democratic Party
|
| positionHeld |
Mayor of Newark, New Jersey
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Member of the Newark Municipal Council ⓘ United States Senator from New Jersey ⓘ
linked to:
United States Senator
|
| ranForOffice | President of the United States ⓘ |
| reElectedIn |
2014 United States Senate election in New Jersey
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2020 United States Senate election in New Jersey ⓘ |
| religion | Baptist ⓘ |
| representedArea |
New Jersey
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linked to:
New Jersey, United States
|
| residence |
Newark, New Jersey
ⓘ
linked to:
Newark
|
| scholarship |
Rhodes Scholarship
ⓘ
linked to:
Rhodes Scholars
|
| startTime |
2006-07-01
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2013-10-31 ⓘ |
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: Cory Booker Description of subject: Cory Booker is an American politician and U.S. Senator from New Jersey known for his progressive policies, advocacy for criminal justice reform, and charismatic public presence.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.