Michael Burry
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Michael Burry is an American investor and hedge fund manager best known for predicting and profiting from the U.S. housing market collapse before the 2008 financial crisis.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Michael Burry canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8450709 — 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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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Michael Burry Context triple: [The Big Short, mainCharacter, Michael Burry]
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A.
Paul Tudor Jones
Paul Tudor Jones is an American billionaire hedge fund manager, philanthropist, and founder of Tudor Investment Corporation, known for his macro trading and for predicting the 1987 stock market crash.
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B.
Seth Klarman
Seth Klarman is an American billionaire investor, hedge fund manager, and author, best known as the long-time head of Baupost Group and a leading proponent of value investing.
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C.
David Einhorn
David Einhorn was a 19th-century German-American rabbi and theologian who became a leading early architect and outspoken advocate of Reform Judaism in the United States.
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D.
Bill Gross
Bill Gross is an American entrepreneur and investor best known for founding numerous technology companies and the startup incubator Idealab.
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E.
Bill Miller
Bill Miller is a veteran Major League Baseball umpire who has officiated numerous high-profile games, including multiple World Series.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Michael Burry Target entity description: Michael Burry is an American investor and hedge fund manager best known for predicting and profiting from the U.S. housing market collapse before the 2008 financial crisis.
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A.
Paul Tudor Jones
Paul Tudor Jones is an American billionaire hedge fund manager, philanthropist, and founder of Tudor Investment Corporation, known for his macro trading and for predicting the 1987 stock market crash.
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B.
Seth Klarman
Seth Klarman is an American billionaire investor, hedge fund manager, and author, best known as the long-time head of Baupost Group and a leading proponent of value investing.
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C.
David Einhorn
David Einhorn was a 19th-century German-American rabbi and theologian who became a leading early architect and outspoken advocate of Reform Judaism in the United States.
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D.
Bill Gross
Bill Gross is an American entrepreneur and investor best known for founding numerous technology companies and the startup incubator Idealab.
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E.
Bill Miller
Bill Miller is a veteran Major League Baseball umpire who has officiated numerous high-profile games, including multiple World Series.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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investor ⓘ physician ⓘ value investor ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod |
early 2000s
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subprime mortgage crisis era ⓘ |
| basedIn |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of California, Los Angeles
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Vanderbilt University School of Medicine ⓘ |
| familyName | Burry ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
finance
ⓘ
medicine ⓘ value investing ⓘ |
| founded | Scion Capital ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Michael ⓘ |
| hasBlog | value investing blog on MSN Money (historical) ⓘ |
| hasCondition | Asperger syndrome ⓘ |
| hasMedicalSpecialty |
neurology
ⓘ
pathology ⓘ |
| inspiredWork |
book "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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film "The Big Short" ⓘ
linked to:
The Big Short
|
| investmentFocus |
special situations
ⓘ
undervalued companies ⓘ |
| investmentStrategy |
shorting subprime mortgage-backed securities
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value investing ⓘ |
| knownFor |
contrarian investing
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early identification of the subprime mortgage bubble ⓘ running a concentrated investment portfolio ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Michael Burry ⓘ |
| notableEvent | profited during the 2007–2008 financial crisis through short positions on subprime mortgages ⓘ |
| notableFor | profiting from the subprime mortgage crisis ⓘ |
| notableWork | prediction of the U.S. housing market collapse before the 2008 financial crisis ⓘ |
| occupation |
hedge fund manager
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investor ⓘ physician ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Christian Bale ⓘ |
| portrayedIn | The Big Short ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
founder of Scion Capital
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hedge fund manager at Scion Capital ⓘ |
| residence |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
|
| usedInstrument | credit default swaps on subprime mortgage bonds ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Michael Burry Description of subject: Michael Burry is an American investor and hedge fund manager best known for predicting and profiting from the U.S. housing market collapse before the 2008 financial crisis.
Referenced by (4)
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