John J. Raskob
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John J. Raskob was an American businessman and financier best known for masterminding and financing the construction of New York City's Empire State Building.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John J. Raskob canonical | 12 |
| Empire State Building developer John J. Raskob | 1 |
| John Jakob Raskob | 1 |
| financier John J. Raskob | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T23846 — 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: John J. Raskob Context triple: [Empire State Building, developer, John J. Raskob]
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John D. Rockefeller Jr.
John D. Rockefeller Jr. was an American financier and philanthropist who greatly expanded the Rockefeller family’s business and charitable legacy, funding major institutions such as Rockefeller Center, the Museum of Modern Art, and the restoration of Colonial Williamsburg.
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B.
Elbert H. Gary
Elbert H. Gary was an American lawyer, judge, and industrialist best known as the founding chairman and longtime leader of U.S. Steel, one of the world’s largest steel producers in the early 20th century.
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C.
Henry Clay Frick
Henry Clay Frick was an American industrialist and financier best known for his leadership in the steel and coke industries and his role in the development of Carnegie Steel.
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D.
Andrew W. Mellon
Andrew W. Mellon was an American financier, industrialist, and philanthropist who served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and became a major patron of the arts.
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E.
Alfred P. Sloan
Alfred P. Sloan was a prominent American business executive and long-time president and chairman of General Motors, known for pioneering modern corporate management practices and organizational structures.
- 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: John J. Raskob Target entity description: John J. Raskob was an American businessman and financier best known for masterminding and financing the construction of New York City's Empire State Building.
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A.
John D. Rockefeller Jr.
John D. Rockefeller Jr. was an American financier and philanthropist who greatly expanded the Rockefeller family’s business and charitable legacy, funding major institutions such as Rockefeller Center, the Museum of Modern Art, and the restoration of Colonial Williamsburg.
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B.
Elbert H. Gary
Elbert H. Gary was an American lawyer, judge, and industrialist best known as the founding chairman and longtime leader of U.S. Steel, one of the world’s largest steel producers in the early 20th century.
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C.
Henry Clay Frick
Henry Clay Frick was an American industrialist and financier best known for his leadership in the steel and coke industries and his role in the development of Carnegie Steel.
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D.
Andrew W. Mellon
Andrew W. Mellon was an American financier, industrialist, and philanthropist who served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and became a major patron of the arts.
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E.
Alfred P. Sloan
Alfred P. Sloan was a prominent American business executive and long-time president and chairman of General Motors, known for pioneering modern corporate management practices and organizational structures.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
businessperson
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financier ⓘ human ⓘ philanthropist ⓘ |
| architecturalClientOf | Shreve, Lamb & Harmon ⓘ |
| boardMemberOf | General Motors ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Cathedral Cemetery, Wilmington, Delaware ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1879-03-19 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1950-10-15 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Niagara University (attended, non-graduate) ⓘ |
| employer |
E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
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linked to:
DuPont
General Motors ⓘ |
| era | Gilded Age and early 20th-century American business ⓘ |
| familyName | Raskob ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
corporate finance
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political fundraising ⓘ real estate development ⓘ |
| founded | Raskob Foundation for Catholic Activities ⓘ |
| fullName |
John Jakob Raskob
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linked to:
John J. Raskob
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| givenName | John ⓘ |
| heritage | German-American ⓘ |
| inspiredWork | construction of the Empire State Building as the world’s tallest building at the time ⓘ |
| knownFor |
financing the construction of the Empire State Building
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masterminding the construction of the Empire State Building ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty |
Democratic Party (United States)
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linked to:
Democratic Party
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| notableIdea |
advocacy of widespread stock market investment in the 1920s
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promotion of small-investor stock ownership in the United States ⓘ |
| notableProject | financing General Motors Acceptance Corporation (GMAC) ⓘ |
| notableResidence | “Havre de Grace” estate near Wilmington, Delaware ⓘ |
| notableWork | Empire State Building ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 13 ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessman
ⓘ
executive ⓘ financier ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Lockport, New York ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Centreville, Maryland ⓘ |
| politicalActivity |
key fundraiser for the Democratic Party in the 1920s
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supporter of Alfred E. Smith’s 1928 presidential campaign ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
chairman of the Democratic National Committee
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vice president of finance at General Motors ⓘ |
| religion |
Roman Catholic Church
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linked to:
Roman Catholicism
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| residence |
Centreville, Maryland
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Wilmington, Delaware ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Helena Springer Green ⓘ |
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: John J. Raskob Description of subject: John J. Raskob was an American businessman and financier best known for masterminding and financing the construction of New York City's Empire State Building.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: John J. Raskob
linked to: John J. Raskob
Cathedral Cemetery, Wilmington, Delaware
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notableBurial
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Empire State Building developer John J. Raskob
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linked to: John J. Raskob
subject linked to:
“Havre de Grace” estate near Wilmington, Delaware
subject linked to:
“Havre de Grace” estate near Wilmington, Delaware