Fastow
E592977
Fastow is the surname of Andrew Fastow, the former Enron chief financial officer known for his central role in the company’s accounting fraud scandal.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Fastow canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6427416 — 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: Fastow Context triple: [Andrew Fastow, familyName, Fastow]
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A.
Passarowitz
Passarowitz is the historical name for Požarevac, a town in modern-day Serbia known as the site where the 1718 Treaty of Passarowitz was concluded between the Habsburg Monarchy, the Ottoman Empire, and the Republic of Venice.
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B.
Zaslofsky
Zaslofsky is a surname most notably associated with Max Zaslofsky, an early star guard in the National Basketball Association.
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C.
Fonzarelli
Fonzarelli is the surname of Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli, the iconic leather-jacket-wearing greaser from the American TV sitcom "Happy Days."
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D.
Fogell
Fogell, better known by his fake ID name "McLovin," is the awkward, overconfident teen whose disastrous attempt to buy alcohol becomes one of the central comedic plotlines in the film *Superbad*.
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E.
Fagan
Fagan is the family name of legendary American jazz singer Billie Holiday, born Eleanora Fagan.
- 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: Fastow Target entity description: Fastow is the surname of Andrew Fastow, the former Enron chief financial officer known for his central role in the company’s accounting fraud scandal.
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A.
Passarowitz
Passarowitz is the historical name for Požarevac, a town in modern-day Serbia known as the site where the 1718 Treaty of Passarowitz was concluded between the Habsburg Monarchy, the Ottoman Empire, and the Republic of Venice.
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B.
Zaslofsky
Zaslofsky is a surname most notably associated with Max Zaslofsky, an early star guard in the National Basketball Association.
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C.
Fonzarelli
Fonzarelli is the surname of Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli, the iconic leather-jacket-wearing greaser from the American TV sitcom "Happy Days."
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D.
Fogell
Fogell, better known by his fake ID name "McLovin," is the awkward, overconfident teen whose disastrous attempt to buy alcohol becomes one of the central comedic plotlines in the film *Superbad*.
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E.
Fagan
Fagan is the family name of legendary American jazz singer Billie Holiday, born Eleanora Fagan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
company
ⓘ
corporate fraud scandal ⓘ person ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| employer | Enron ⓘ |
| familyName | Fastow ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
accounting
ⓘ
corporate finance ⓘ |
| givenName | Andrew ⓘ |
| hasParticipant | Andrew Fastow ⓘ |
| hasSurname | Fastow ⓘ |
| industry | energy ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | central role in Enron accounting fraud scandal ⓘ |
| occupation | chief financial officer ⓘ |
| participantIn |
Enron scandal
ⓘ
linked to:
Enron accounting scandal
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| positionHeld | Chief Financial Officer of Enron ⓘ |
| usedBy | Andrew Fastow ⓘ |
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: Fastow Description of subject: Fastow is the surname of Andrew Fastow, the former Enron chief financial officer known for his central role in the company’s accounting fraud scandal.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.