Cofer Black
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Cofer Black is a former CIA official and counterterrorism expert who later became a private security executive and corporate board member.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cofer Black canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11357682 — 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: Cofer Black Context triple: [Burisma Holdings, hasBoardMember, Cofer Black]
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A.
Martin Black
Martin Black is a member of the Black family, a fictional pure-blood wizarding family in the Harry Potter universe.
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B.
Vilos Cohaagen
Vilos Cohaagen is the ruthless and power-hungry corporate governor of Mars who serves as the main antagonist in the science fiction film "Total Recall."
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C.
Felonius
Felonius is the full first name of Gru, the main supervillain-turned-hero character in the Despicable Me animated film series.
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D.
Shriever
Shriever is a surname, a variant spelling of "Shriver," borne by various individuals of English-speaking origin.
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E.
Degory Priest
Degory Priest was an English Pilgrim and early settler of Plymouth Colony who traveled on the Mayflower and participated in the founding governance of the colony.
- 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: Cofer Black Target entity description: Cofer Black is a former CIA official and counterterrorism expert who later became a private security executive and corporate board member.
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A.
Martin Black
Martin Black is a member of the Black family, a fictional pure-blood wizarding family in the Harry Potter universe.
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B.
Vilos Cohaagen
Vilos Cohaagen is the ruthless and power-hungry corporate governor of Mars who serves as the main antagonist in the science fiction film "Total Recall."
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C.
Felonius
Felonius is the full first name of Gru, the main supervillain-turned-hero character in the Despicable Me animated film series.
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D.
Shriever
Shriever is a surname, a variant spelling of "Shriver," borne by various individuals of English-speaking origin.
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E.
Degory Priest
Degory Priest was an English Pilgrim and early settler of Plymouth Colony who traveled on the Mayflower and participated in the founding governance of the colony.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
business executive
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counterterrorism expert ⓘ human ⓘ intelligence officer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Loomis Chaffee School
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USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences ⓘ University of Southern California ⓘ |
| employer |
Blackbird Technologies
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Blackwater USA ⓘ Blackwater Worldwide ⓘ Central Intelligence Agency ⓘ Total S.A. ⓘ U.S. Department of State ⓘ
linked to:
United States Department of State
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| familyName | Black ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
counterterrorism
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intelligence ⓘ |
| givenName | J. Cofer ⓘ |
| hasActivity |
corporate security consulting
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counterterrorism operations planning ⓘ intelligence analysis ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Central Intelligence Agency
ⓘ
U.S. Foreign Service ⓘ
linked to:
United States Foreign Service
|
| notableFor |
senior role in U.S. counterterrorism policy before and after 9/11
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transition from government intelligence to private security sector ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Leadership of CIA Counterterrorist Center prior to and after September 11 attacks
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Role in early U.S. counterterrorism strategy against al-Qaeda ⓘ |
| occupation |
business executive
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corporate board member ⓘ diplomat ⓘ intelligence officer ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Board member of Blackwater Worldwide
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Board member of Total S.A. ⓘ Coordinator for Counterterrorism at the U.S. Department of State ⓘ Director of National Security at Blackbird Technologies ⓘ Director of the CIA Counterterrorist Center ⓘ Vice Chairman of Blackwater USA ⓘ Vice Chairman of Blackwater Worldwide ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Afghanistan
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Iraq ⓘ Langley, Virginia ⓘ Sudan ⓘ 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: Cofer Black Description of subject: Cofer Black is a former CIA official and counterterrorism expert who later became a private security executive and corporate board member.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.