David H. Koch
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David H. Koch was an American businessman, chemical engineer, and philanthropist best known as a co-owner of Koch Industries and a major donor to conservative political causes and scientific and medical research institutions.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David H. Koch canonical | 7 |
| David Koch | 7 |
| David Hamilton Koch | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T680564 — 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: David H. Koch Context triple: [Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, namedAfter, David H. Koch]
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Peter G. Peterson
Peter G. Peterson was an American businessman, investment banker, and former U.S. Secretary of Commerce best known as a co-founder of the private equity firm Blackstone and a prominent advocate for fiscal responsibility.
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B.
Charles F. Dolan
Charles F. Dolan is an American cable television pioneer and media executive best known as the founder of HBO and Cablevision.
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C.
Preston Robert Tisch
Preston Robert Tisch was an American businessman and philanthropist best known as co-owner of the New York Giants and former Postmaster General of the United States.
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D.
Laurence Tisch
Laurence Tisch was an American businessman and investor best known as the co-owner of Loews Corporation and former CEO of CBS.
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E.
Albert J. Weatherhead III
Albert J. Weatherhead III was an American industrialist, philanthropist, and business leader known for his support of higher education and the arts.
- 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: David H. Koch Target entity description: David H. Koch was an American businessman, chemical engineer, and philanthropist best known as a co-owner of Koch Industries and a major donor to conservative political causes and scientific and medical research institutions.
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A.
Peter G. Peterson
Peter G. Peterson was an American businessman, investment banker, and former U.S. Secretary of Commerce best known as a co-founder of the private equity firm Blackstone and a prominent advocate for fiscal responsibility.
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B.
Charles F. Dolan
Charles F. Dolan is an American cable television pioneer and media executive best known as the founder of HBO and Cablevision.
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C.
Preston Robert Tisch
Preston Robert Tisch was an American businessman and philanthropist best known as co-owner of the New York Giants and former Postmaster General of the United States.
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D.
Laurence Tisch
Laurence Tisch was an American businessman and investor best known as the co-owner of Loews Corporation and former CEO of CBS.
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E.
Albert J. Weatherhead III
Albert J. Weatherhead III was an American industrialist, philanthropist, and business leader known for his support of higher education and the arts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: David H. Koch Description of subject: David H. Koch was an American businessman, chemical engineer, and philanthropist best known as a co-owner of Koch Industries and a major donor to conservative political causes and scientific and medical research institutions.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, New York City
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