Tony West
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Tony West is an American attorney and former U.S. Department of Justice official who has served as Uber’s Chief Legal Officer, overseeing the company’s global legal, compliance, and ethics functions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tony West canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T241680 — 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: Tony West Context triple: [Uber, hasKeyPerson, Tony West]
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A.
Charles Roven
Charles Roven is an American film producer known for his work on major Hollywood blockbusters, including Christopher Nolan’s films such as Oppenheimer and The Dark Knight trilogy.
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B.
Steven S. DeKnight
Steven S. DeKnight is an American writer, producer, and director best known for his work on genre television series like Spartacus and Marvel's Daredevil, as well as his feature film directing.
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C.
J. J. Abrams
J. J. Abrams is an American filmmaker, producer, and screenwriter known for creating and directing major science fiction and action franchises such as Lost, Star Trek, and Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
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D.
Craig Zadan
Craig Zadan was an American film, television, and theater producer best known for his work on musical adaptations and live TV musicals, including projects like "Chicago" and NBC's live musical events.
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E.
Joseph Kahn
Joseph Kahn is an American journalist who serves as the executive editor of The New York Times and is known for his leadership in global and investigative reporting.
- 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: Tony West Target entity description: Tony West is an American attorney and former U.S. Department of Justice official who has served as Uber’s Chief Legal Officer, overseeing the company’s global legal, compliance, and ethics functions.
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A.
Charles Roven
Charles Roven is an American film producer known for his work on major Hollywood blockbusters, including Christopher Nolan’s films such as Oppenheimer and The Dark Knight trilogy.
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B.
Steven S. DeKnight
Steven S. DeKnight is an American writer, producer, and director best known for his work on genre television series like Spartacus and Marvel's Daredevil, as well as his feature film directing.
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C.
J. J. Abrams
J. J. Abrams is an American filmmaker, producer, and screenwriter known for creating and directing major science fiction and action franchises such as Lost, Star Trek, and Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
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D.
Craig Zadan
Craig Zadan was an American film, television, and theater producer best known for his work on musical adaptations and live TV musicals, including projects like "Chicago" and NBC's live musical events.
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E.
Joseph Kahn
Joseph Kahn is an American journalist who serves as the executive editor of The New York Times and is known for his leadership in global and investigative reporting.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
attorney
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business executive ⓘ human ⓘ lawyer ⓘ |
| boardMemberOf | Various nonprofit organizations in the United States ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| degreeObtained |
Bachelor’s degree from Harvard College
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Juris Doctor from Stanford Law School ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard College
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linked to:
Harvard University
Stanford Law School ⓘ |
| employer |
Uber Technologies, Inc.
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linked to:
Uber
United States Department of Justice ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
corporate law
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law ⓘ public law ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| legalSpecialty |
civil litigation
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government enforcement ⓘ regulatory compliance ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Democratic Party ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableRole | Senior legal leader during Uber’s corporate culture and compliance reforms ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Leadership of Uber’s global legal, compliance, and ethics functions
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Oversight of U.S. Department of Justice Civil Division ⓘ |
| occupation |
attorney
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corporate executive ⓘ general counsel ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Acting Associate Attorney General of the United States
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linked to:
United States Associate Attorney General
Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice ⓘ Associate Attorney General of the United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States Associate Attorney General
Chief Legal Officer of Uber ⓘ |
| relative | Kamala Harris ⓘ |
| sibling | Kamala Harris’s brother-in-law ⓘ |
| spouse | Maya Harris ⓘ |
| workLocation |
San Francisco, California
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linked to:
San Francisco
Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
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: Tony West Description of subject: Tony West is an American attorney and former U.S. Department of Justice official who has served as Uber’s Chief Legal Officer, overseeing the company’s global legal, compliance, and ethics functions.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.