John M. Larson
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John M. Larson is an American businessman best known as the founder and former chief executive of the for-profit education company Career Education Corporation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John M. Larson canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5952812 — 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 M. Larson Context triple: [Career Education Corporation, foundedBy, John M. Larson]
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A.
Thomas Foley
Thomas Foley was a distinguished Royal Navy officer who played a key role under Admiral Nelson during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
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B.
Thomas F. Foley
Thomas F. Foley was a prominent New York City political figure and Tammany Hall leader in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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C.
Bill Rasmussen
Bill Rasmussen is an American sports broadcasting executive best known for creating ESPN, the first 24-hour cable sports television network.
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D.
Lowell Weicker
Lowell Weicker was an American Republican politician from Connecticut who served as a U.S. Senator and gained national prominence for his independent stance during the Watergate scandal.
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E.
Jim McDermott
Jim McDermott is an American psychiatrist and Democratic politician who represented Washington's 7th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1989 to 2017.
- 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 M. Larson Target entity description: John M. Larson is an American businessman best known as the founder and former chief executive of the for-profit education company Career Education Corporation.
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A.
Thomas Foley
Thomas Foley was a distinguished Royal Navy officer who played a key role under Admiral Nelson during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
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B.
Thomas F. Foley
Thomas F. Foley was a prominent New York City political figure and Tammany Hall leader in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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C.
Bill Rasmussen
Bill Rasmussen is an American sports broadcasting executive best known for creating ESPN, the first 24-hour cable sports television network.
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D.
Lowell Weicker
Lowell Weicker was an American Republican politician from Connecticut who served as a U.S. Senator and gained national prominence for his independent stance during the Watergate scandal.
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E.
Jim McDermott
Jim McDermott is an American psychiatrist and Democratic politician who represented Washington's 7th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1989 to 2017.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
businessperson
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chief executive officer ⓘ for-profit education company ⓘ founder ⓘ |
| businessSector | postsecondary education ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Career Education Corporation ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | for-profit education industry ⓘ |
| founded | Career Education Corporation ⓘ |
| hasFounder | John M. Larson ⓘ |
| industry |
career-focused education
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education management ⓘ higher education ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | founding Career Education Corporation ⓘ |
| notableRole | founder and former CEO of Career Education Corporation ⓘ |
| occupation | businessman ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
chairman of Career Education Corporation
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chief executive officer of Career Education Corporation ⓘ |
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 M. Larson Description of subject: John M. Larson is an American businessman best known as the founder and former chief executive of the for-profit education company Career Education Corporation.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
John M. Larson