Clifford M. Sobel
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Clifford M. Sobel is an American businessman and diplomat who served as U.S. ambassador to both the Netherlands and Brazil in the 2000s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Clifford M. Sobel canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8359053 — 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: Clifford M. Sobel Context triple: [United States ambassador to Brazil, officeHoldersInclude, Clifford M. Sobel]
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A.
Marvin L. Cohen
Marvin L. Cohen is a prominent American condensed matter physicist known for his pioneering work in computational materials science and electronic structure theory.
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B.
Leonard S. Schleifer
Leonard S. Schleifer is an American physician, entrepreneur, and billionaire best known as the co-founder and longtime CEO of the biotechnology company Regeneron Pharmaceuticals.
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C.
Edward S. Feldman
Edward S. Feldman is an American film producer known for overseeing a range of notable movies across several decades, including acclaimed dramas and thrillers.
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D.
Robert G. Goldstein
Robert G. Goldstein is an American business executive best known as the chief executive officer and a leading figure of the global casino and resort company Las Vegas Sands.
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E.
Douglas L. Meyer
Douglas L. Meyer is a theatrical producer best known for his work on the hit 2001 Broadway musical "The Producers."
- 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: Clifford M. Sobel Target entity description: Clifford M. Sobel is an American businessman and diplomat who served as U.S. ambassador to both the Netherlands and Brazil in the 2000s.
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A.
Marvin L. Cohen
Marvin L. Cohen is a prominent American condensed matter physicist known for his pioneering work in computational materials science and electronic structure theory.
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B.
Leonard S. Schleifer
Leonard S. Schleifer is an American physician, entrepreneur, and billionaire best known as the co-founder and longtime CEO of the biotechnology company Regeneron Pharmaceuticals.
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C.
Edward S. Feldman
Edward S. Feldman is an American film producer known for overseeing a range of notable movies across several decades, including acclaimed dramas and thrillers.
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D.
Robert G. Goldstein
Robert G. Goldstein is an American business executive best known as the chief executive officer and a leading figure of the global casino and resort company Las Vegas Sands.
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E.
Douglas L. Meyer
Douglas L. Meyer is a theatrical producer best known for his work on the hit 2001 Broadway musical "The Producers."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ambassador
ⓘ
diplomat ⓘ human ⓘ |
| appointedBy | George W. Bush ⓘ |
| citizenship | American ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | United States Department of State ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
business
ⓘ
international relations ⓘ |
| genre | diplomacy ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| hasRole |
ambassador
ⓘ
business executive ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | serving as U.S. ambassador to two countries in the 2000s ⓘ |
| notableWork |
service as U.S. Ambassador to Brazil
ⓘ
service as U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessman
ⓘ
diplomat ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
United States Ambassador to Brazil
ⓘ
linked to:
United States ambassador to Brazil
United States Ambassador to the Netherlands ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 2000s ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Brazil
ⓘ
Netherlands ⓘ |
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: Clifford M. Sobel Description of subject: Clifford M. Sobel is an American businessman and diplomat who served as U.S. ambassador to both the Netherlands and Brazil in the 2000s.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.