New York City Mayor Abraham Beame

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human mayor politician

New York City Mayor Abraham Beame was a Democratic politician who served as the 104th mayor of New York City from 1974 to 1977, leading the city through a severe fiscal crisis.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Abraham Beame	5
Abraham Beame – Democratic Party	1
New York City Mayor Abraham Beame canonical	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5941358 — 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.

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Target entity: New York City Mayor Abraham Beame
Context triple: [Hugh L. Carey, cooperatedWith, New York City Mayor Abraham Beame]

A. Ed Koch
Ed Koch was a long-serving and outspoken mayor of New York City, known for his brash personality and influential role in the city’s late-20th-century politics.
B. Fiorello H. La Guardia
Fiorello H. La Guardia was a prominent three-term mayor of New York City (1934–1945) known for his reformist leadership during the Great Depression and World War II.
C. Herbert H. Lehman
Herbert H. Lehman was an American Democratic politician who served as governor of New York and later as a U.S. senator, known for his advocacy of social welfare and liberal policies.
D. Hugh L. Carey
Hugh L. Carey was an American politician who served as the 51st Governor of New York from 1975 to 1982, known for helping rescue New York City from its 1970s fiscal crisis.
E. Alfred Leo Smith
Alfred Leo Smith was a Native American man whose denial of unemployment benefits for using peyote in a religious ceremony led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Employment Division v. Smith, reshaping constitutional law on religious freedom.
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: New York City Mayor Abraham Beame
Target entity description: New York City Mayor Abraham Beame was a Democratic politician who served as the 104th mayor of New York City from 1974 to 1977, leading the city through a severe fiscal crisis.

A. Ed Koch
Ed Koch was a long-serving and outspoken mayor of New York City, known for his brash personality and influential role in the city’s late-20th-century politics.
B. Fiorello H. La Guardia
Fiorello H. La Guardia was a prominent three-term mayor of New York City (1934–1945) known for his reformist leadership during the Great Depression and World War II.
C. Herbert H. Lehman
Herbert H. Lehman was an American Democratic politician who served as governor of New York and later as a U.S. senator, known for his advocacy of social welfare and liberal policies.
D. Hugh L. Carey
Hugh L. Carey was an American politician who served as the 51st Governor of New York from 1975 to 1982, known for helping rescue New York City from its 1970s fiscal crisis.
E. Alfred Leo Smith
Alfred Leo Smith was a Native American man whose denial of unemployment benefits for using peyote in a religious ceremony led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Employment Division v. Smith, reshaping constitutional law on religious freedom.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	human ⓘ mayor ⓘ politician ⓘ
birthName	Abraham David Beame NERFINISHED ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America ⓘ
dateOfBirth	1906-03-20 ⓘ
dateOfDeath	2001-02-10 ⓘ
describedAs	New York City’s first Jewish mayor elected in his own right ⓘ first practicing accountant to become Mayor of New York City ⓘ
educatedAt	City College of New York NERFINISHED ⓘ
electedIn	1973 New York City mayoral election ⓘ
ethnicGroup	Jewish ⓘ
familyName	Beame NERFINISHED ⓘ
fieldOfStudy	accounting ⓘ
givenName	Abraham NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasChild	Bernard Beame NERFINISHED ⓘ Edwin Beame NERFINISHED ⓘ
immigratedTo	United States of America ⓘ
immigrationYear	1906 ⓘ
knownFor	austerity measures during New York City fiscal crisis ⓘ negotiating federal loan guarantees for New York City ⓘ
memberOfPoliticalParty	Democratic Party ⓘ
notableFor	handling New York City near-bankruptcy in 1975 ⓘ leading New York City during the 1970s fiscal crisis ⓘ
occupation	accountant ⓘ politician ⓘ
officeEndTime	1977-12-31 ⓘ
officeStartTime	1974-01-01 ⓘ
ordinalInOffice	104th Mayor of New York City ⓘ
placeOfBirth	London ⓘ linked to: London, England United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ
placeOfDeath	New York NERFINISHED ⓘ New York City ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
politicalAlignment	liberal Democrat ⓘ
positionHeld	Mayor of New York City ⓘ New York City Comptroller NERFINISHED ⓘ
precededBy	John V. Lindsay NERFINISHED ⓘ
religion	Judaism ⓘ
residence	Brooklyn NERFINISHED ⓘ New York City ⓘ
sexOrGender	male ⓘ
spouse	Mary Beame NERFINISHED ⓘ
succeededBy	Edward I. Koch NERFINISHED ⓘ
workedAs	budget director ⓘ tax accountant ⓘ

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