Lanny Breuer
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Lanny Breuer is an American lawyer who served as Assistant Attorney General for the U.S. Department of Justice’s Criminal Division and later became a prominent partner at Covington & Burling.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lanny A. Breuer | 1 |
| Lanny Breuer canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2054149 — 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: Lanny Breuer Context triple: [Covington & Burling, hasNotableAlumni, Lanny Breuer]
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A.
Eugene Kleiner
Eugene Kleiner was a pioneering Silicon Valley engineer and venture capitalist, best known as a co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and the influential VC firm Kleiner Perkins.
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B.
Dean Riesner
Dean Riesner was an American screenwriter best known for his work on films such as "Dirty Harry" and "Play Misty for Me."
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C.
Robert Tishman
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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D.
Art Podell
Art Podell is an American folk musician and songwriter best known as an early member of the popular 1960s folk group The New Christy Minstrels.
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E.
Leon Feldhendler
Leon Feldhendler was a Polish Jewish resistance leader and Holocaust survivor best known for co-organizing the 1943 prisoner uprising at the Sobibor extermination camp.
- 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: Lanny Breuer Target entity description: Lanny Breuer is an American lawyer who served as Assistant Attorney General for the U.S. Department of Justice’s Criminal Division and later became a prominent partner at Covington & Burling.
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A.
Eugene Kleiner
Eugene Kleiner was a pioneering Silicon Valley engineer and venture capitalist, best known as a co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and the influential VC firm Kleiner Perkins.
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B.
Dean Riesner
Dean Riesner was an American screenwriter best known for his work on films such as "Dirty Harry" and "Play Misty for Me."
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C.
Robert Tishman
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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D.
Art Podell
Art Podell is an American folk musician and songwriter best known as an early member of the popular 1960s folk group The New Christy Minstrels.
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E.
Leon Feldhendler
Leon Feldhendler was a Polish Jewish resistance leader and Holocaust survivor best known for co-organizing the 1943 prisoner uprising at the Sobibor extermination camp.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American lawyer
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human ⓘ lawyer ⓘ |
| appointedBy | Barack Obama ⓘ |
| boardMembership |
American Bar Association Criminal Justice Section (advisory roles)
ⓘ
linked to:
Criminal Justice Section
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| degree |
Bachelor of Arts
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Juris Doctor ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Columbia College, Columbia University
ⓘ
Columbia Law School ⓘ |
| employer |
Covington & Burling
ⓘ
United States Department of Justice ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
corporate defense
ⓘ
criminal law ⓘ white-collar crime ⓘ |
| hasExperienceIn |
congressional investigations
ⓘ
federal criminal prosecutions ⓘ regulatory enforcement actions ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| knownFor | high-profile corporate crime and corruption matters ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| legalLicenseIn |
District of Columbia
ⓘ
New York ⓘ |
| memberOf | Democratic Party ⓘ |
| name | Lanny A. Breuer ⓘ |
| notableClientType |
financial institutions
ⓘ
multinational corporations ⓘ senior corporate executives ⓘ |
| notableFor | leadership of the U.S. Department of Justice Criminal Division during the Obama administration ⓘ |
| notableWork |
oversight of the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice
ⓘ
policy work on Foreign Corrupt Practices Act enforcement ⓘ prosecution of complex financial and corporate crime cases ⓘ |
| occupation |
government official
ⓘ
lawyer ⓘ lobbyist ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice
ⓘ
Vice Chair of Covington & Burling ⓘ partner at Covington & Burling ⓘ |
| practiceArea |
FCPA compliance and investigations
ⓘ
internal corporate investigations ⓘ regulatory enforcement ⓘ white-collar defense ⓘ |
| sector |
private sector
ⓘ
public sector ⓘ |
| workLocation | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
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: Lanny Breuer Description of subject: Lanny Breuer is an American lawyer who served as Assistant Attorney General for the U.S. Department of Justice’s Criminal Division and later became a prominent partner at Covington & Burling.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Lanny Breuer