Eli Broad
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Eli Broad was an American billionaire entrepreneur and philanthropist known for founding two Fortune 500 companies and making major contributions to education, science, and the arts.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Eli Broad canonical | 29 |
| Eli and Edythe Broad | 2 |
| American businessman Eli Broad | 1 |
| Eli L. Broad | 1 |
| billionaire entrepreneur Eli Broad | 1 |
| philanthropist Eli Broad | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T778057 — 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: Eli Broad Context triple: [Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, namedAfter, Eli Broad]
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A.
Stephen M. Ross
Stephen M. Ross is an American real estate billionaire and philanthropist best known as the principal owner of the NFL’s Miami Dolphins and the developer behind New York’s Hudson Yards.
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B.
Dan DeVos
Dan DeVos is an American businessman and sports executive known for his leadership roles in West Michigan professional sports franchises and his involvement with the DeVos family’s business and philanthropic ventures.
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C.
John J. Raskob
John J. Raskob was an American businessman and financier best known for masterminding and financing the construction of New York City's Empire State Building.
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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.
Bernard Marcus
Bernard Marcus is an American billionaire businessman and philanthropist best known as a co-founder and former CEO of the home improvement retail giant The Home Depot.
- 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: Eli Broad Target entity description: Eli Broad was an American billionaire entrepreneur and philanthropist known for founding two Fortune 500 companies and making major contributions to education, science, and the arts.
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A.
Stephen M. Ross
Stephen M. Ross is an American real estate billionaire and philanthropist best known as the principal owner of the NFL’s Miami Dolphins and the developer behind New York’s Hudson Yards.
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B.
Dan DeVos
Dan DeVos is an American businessman and sports executive known for his leadership roles in West Michigan professional sports franchises and his involvement with the DeVos family’s business and philanthropic ventures.
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C.
John J. Raskob
John J. Raskob was an American businessman and financier best known for masterminding and financing the construction of New York City's Empire State Building.
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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.
Bernard Marcus
Bernard Marcus is an American billionaire businessman and philanthropist best known as a co-founder and former CEO of the home improvement retail giant The Home Depot.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
billionaire
ⓘ
businessperson ⓘ human ⓘ philanthropist ⓘ |
| coFounded |
Kaufman & Broad
ⓘ
SunAmerica ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1933-06-06 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2021-04-30 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Michigan State University
ⓘ
linked to:
Michigan State College
|
| ethnicGroup | Jewish American ⓘ |
| familyName | Broad ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
financial services industry
ⓘ
homebuilding industry ⓘ philanthropy ⓘ |
| founded |
The Broad Art Foundation
ⓘ
The Broad Foundations ⓘ The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation ⓘ |
| fullName |
Eli L. Broad
ⓘ
linked to:
Eli Broad
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| givenName | Eli ⓘ |
| heldPosition |
chief executive officer of Kaufman & Broad
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chief executive officer of SunAmerica ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Broad Museum in Los Angeles
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support of K–12 education reform ⓘ support of biomedical research ⓘ support of contemporary art ⓘ |
| memberOf | The Giving Pledge ⓘ |
| netWorthStatus | billionaire ⓘ |
| notableFor |
founding two Fortune 500 companies
ⓘ
major contributions to education ⓘ major contributions to science ⓘ major contributions to the arts ⓘ |
| occupation |
entrepreneur
ⓘ
investor ⓘ philanthropist ⓘ |
| philanthropicFocus |
biomedical research
ⓘ
contemporary art ⓘ education reform ⓘ public charter schools ⓘ urban school districts ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Bronx, New York City, New York, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Los Angeles, California, United States ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles, California, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Los Angeles
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| spouse | Edythe Broad ⓘ |
| studied | accounting ⓘ |
| supportedInstitution |
Broad Center at Yale School of Management
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Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard ⓘ Los Angeles County Museum of Art ⓘ Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles ⓘ The Broad museum in downtown Los Angeles ⓘ
linked to:
The Broad Museum
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How these facts were elicited
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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: Eli Broad Description of subject: Eli Broad was an American billionaire entrepreneur and philanthropist known for founding two Fortune 500 companies and making major contributions to education, science, and the arts.
Referenced by (35)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
The Broad Museum
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The Broad Museum
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The Broad Museum
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Broad Museum
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Broad Museum
linked to: Eli Broad
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Broad
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Broad
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subject linked to:
Broad Museum in Los Angeles
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the veil and the vault