Dennis Hastert
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Dennis Hastert is an American Republican politician who served as the 51st Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1999 to 2007.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dennis Hastert canonical | 16 |
| Hastert | 2 |
| John Dennis Hastert | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T482754 — 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: Dennis Hastert Context triple: [108th United States Congress, speakerOfTheHouse, Dennis Hastert]
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A.
Michael G. Oxley
Michael G. Oxley was an American Republican congressman from Ohio best known for co-authoring the landmark Sarbanes–Oxley corporate governance and financial reporting reform law.
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B.
Everett Dirksen
Everett Dirksen was a prominent mid-20th-century Republican U.S. Senator from Illinois known for his influential leadership and key role in passing major civil rights legislation.
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C.
Paul Sarbanes
Paul Sarbanes was a long-serving U.S. Senator from Maryland best known for co-authoring major corporate governance reforms in the early 2000s.
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D.
Lee H. Hamilton
Lee H. Hamilton is an American politician and foreign policy expert who served as a long-time U.S. congressman from Indiana and later as a leading figure on major national security and intelligence commissions.
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E.
Harry Bright
Harry Bright is one of the three possible fathers and central adult characters in the musical and film "Mamma Mia!", known for his reserved, uptight demeanor that contrasts with the story’s exuberant Greek-island setting.
- 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: Dennis Hastert Target entity description: Dennis Hastert is an American Republican politician who served as the 51st Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1999 to 2007.
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A.
Michael G. Oxley
Michael G. Oxley was an American Republican congressman from Ohio best known for co-authoring the landmark Sarbanes–Oxley corporate governance and financial reporting reform law.
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B.
Everett Dirksen
Everett Dirksen was a prominent mid-20th-century Republican U.S. Senator from Illinois known for his influential leadership and key role in passing major civil rights legislation.
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C.
Paul Sarbanes
Paul Sarbanes was a long-serving U.S. Senator from Maryland best known for co-authoring major corporate governance reforms in the early 2000s.
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D.
Lee H. Hamilton
Lee H. Hamilton is an American politician and foreign policy expert who served as a long-time U.S. congressman from Indiana and later as a leading figure on major national security and intelligence commissions.
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E.
Harry Bright
Harry Bright is one of the three possible fathers and central adult characters in the musical and film "Mamma Mia!", known for his reserved, uptight demeanor that contrasts with the story’s exuberant Greek-island setting.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
ⓘ
human ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| admittedTo | sexually abusing minors while a wrestling coach ⓘ |
| convictedOf |
lying to federal investigators
ⓘ
structuring bank withdrawals to evade reporting requirements ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1942-01-02 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Northern Illinois University
ⓘ
Wheaton College (Illinois) ⓘ
linked to:
Wheaton College, Illinois
|
| endTime | 2007-01-03 (as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives) ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | European American ⓘ |
| familyName |
Hastert
ⓘ
linked to:
Dennis Hastert
|
| givenName | John ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Ethan Hastert
ⓘ
linked to:
Joshua Hastert
Joshua Hastert ⓘ |
| honorificPrefix | The Honorable ⓘ |
| memberOf | United States House of Representatives ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Republican Party ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
federal indictment on banking and hush-money charges in 2015
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resignation from Congress in 2007 ⓘ |
| notableWork |
leadership during the impeachment of Bill Clinton (as House Republican leader)
ⓘ
role in passing the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act ⓘ |
| occupation |
politician
ⓘ
teacher ⓘ wrestling coach ⓘ |
| officeContested |
U.S. House of Representatives
ⓘ
linked to:
United States House of Representatives
|
| partOf |
106th United States Congress (as Speaker)
ⓘ
linked to:
106th United States Congress
107th United States Congress (as Speaker) ⓘ
linked to:
107th United States Congress
108th United States Congress (as Speaker) ⓘ
linked to:
108th United States Congress
109th United States Congress (as Speaker) ⓘ
linked to:
109th United States Congress
|
| placeOfBirth |
Aurora, Illinois, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Aurora, Illinois
|
| positionHeld |
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
ⓘ
Minority Whip of the United States House of Representatives ⓘ
linked to:
House Minority Whip
Speaker of the House Republican Conference ⓘ Speaker of the United States House of Representatives ⓘ |
| precededBy | Newt Gingrich (as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives) ⓘ |
| religion |
Evangelical Christianity
ⓘ
linked to:
Evangelicalism
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| represents | Illinois's 14th congressional district ⓘ |
| residence |
Illinois, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Illinois
|
| sentence | 15 months in federal prison (2016) for financial crimes related to hush-money payments ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Jean Hastert ⓘ |
| startTime | 1999-01-06 (as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives) ⓘ |
| succeededBy |
Nancy Pelosi (as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives)
ⓘ
linked to:
Nancy Pelosi
|
| wasMemberOf | Illinois House of Representatives ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Springfield, Illinois
ⓘ
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: Dennis Hastert Description of subject: Dennis Hastert is an American Republican politician who served as the 51st Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1999 to 2007.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Dennis Hastert
subject linked to:
Newt Gingrich (as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives)
subject linked to:
John
linked to: Dennis Hastert
subject linked to:
John