Robert Tishman
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Robert Tishman was an American real estate developer best known as a co-founder and leader of the global real estate firm Tishman Speyer.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Robert Tishman canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1508510 — 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: Robert Tishman Context triple: [Tishman Speyer, foundedBy, Robert Tishman]
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A.
John E. Zuccotti
John E. Zuccotti was an American real estate executive and public official in New York City, notably serving as deputy mayor and a prominent figure in urban development.
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B.
Michael I. Sovern
Michael I. Sovern was an influential American legal scholar and academic leader who served as president of Columbia University and was known for his work on labor law and higher education policy.
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C.
Bernard M. Gordon
Bernard M. Gordon is an American engineer, inventor, and philanthropist known for pioneering work in high-speed analog-to-digital conversion and for major contributions to engineering education.
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D.
Steve Tisch
Steve Tisch is an American film producer and businessman best known as the co-owner of the NFL’s New York Giants and an Academy Award–winning producer of "Forrest Gump."
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E.
Laurence Tisch
Laurence Tisch was an American businessman and investor best known as the co-owner of Loews Corporation and former CEO of CBS.
- 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: Robert Tishman Target entity description: Robert Tishman was an American real estate developer best known as a co-founder and leader of the global real estate firm Tishman Speyer.
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A.
John E. Zuccotti
John E. Zuccotti was an American real estate executive and public official in New York City, notably serving as deputy mayor and a prominent figure in urban development.
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B.
Michael I. Sovern
Michael I. Sovern was an influential American legal scholar and academic leader who served as president of Columbia University and was known for his work on labor law and higher education policy.
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C.
Bernard M. Gordon
Bernard M. Gordon is an American engineer, inventor, and philanthropist known for pioneering work in high-speed analog-to-digital conversion and for major contributions to engineering education.
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D.
Steve Tisch
Steve Tisch is an American film producer and businessman best known as the co-owner of the NFL’s New York Giants and an Academy Award–winning producer of "Forrest Gump."
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E.
Laurence Tisch
Laurence Tisch was an American businessman and investor best known as the co-owner of Loews Corporation and former CEO of CBS.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
businessperson
ⓘ
human ⓘ real estate developer ⓘ |
| associatedWith | New York City real estate industry ⓘ |
| businessRegion |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
global ⓘ |
| coFounded | Tishman Speyer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Tishman Speyer ⓘ |
| familyName | Tishman ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
real estate
ⓘ
real estate development ⓘ real estate investment ⓘ |
| foundedOrganizationType | real estate firm ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Robert ⓘ |
| hasBusinessPartner | Jerry Speyer ⓘ |
| industry | real estate ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Tishman family
ⓘ
linked to:
LeFrak family
|
| notableFor |
building a global real estate platform through Tishman Speyer
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co-founding Tishman Speyer ⓘ leadership of Tishman Speyer ⓘ |
| notableRole | leader of a global real estate firm ⓘ |
| notableWork | development of large-scale commercial real estate projects ⓘ |
| occupation |
business executive
ⓘ
real estate developer ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
chairman of Tishman Speyer
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chief executive of Tishman Speyer ⓘ |
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: Robert Tishman Description of subject: Robert Tishman was an American real estate developer best known as a co-founder and leader of the global real estate firm Tishman Speyer.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.