Al Capone
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Al Capone was a notorious American gangster and crime boss of the Prohibition era, best known for leading the Chicago Outfit and becoming an enduring symbol of organized crime in the United States.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Al Capone canonical | 58 |
| Capone | 5 |
| Alphonse Gabriel Capone | 4 |
| Albert Francis Capone | 2 |
| Al Capone (Night at the Museum character) | 1 |
| Albert Francis "Sonny" Capone | 1 |
| Albert Francis Capone Jr. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T105332 — 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: Al Capone Context triple: [Eastern State Penitentiary, notableInmate, Al Capone]
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A.
Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel
Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel was a notorious American mobster and key architect of organized crime’s expansion into Las Vegas, becoming one of the most infamous figures of the early 20th-century underworld.
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B.
Joe Klecko
Joe Klecko is a former American football defensive lineman best known as a dominant member of the New York Jets' famed "New York Sack Exchange" and a Pro Football Hall of Famer.
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C.
Rich Gotham
Rich Gotham is an American sports executive best known for serving as the president of the NBA’s Boston Celtics.
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D.
Uncle Joe
Uncle Joe is a colloquial nickname for Joseph Stalin, the Soviet dictator who led the USSR through World War II and oversaw widespread political repression.
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E.
Sam Jones
Sam Jones was a Hall of Fame shooting guard who won 10 NBA championships with the Boston Celtics during the 1950s and 1960s, making him one of the most decorated players in league history.
- 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: Al Capone Target entity description: Al Capone was a notorious American gangster and crime boss of the Prohibition era, best known for leading the Chicago Outfit and becoming an enduring symbol of organized crime in the United States.
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A.
Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel
Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel was a notorious American mobster and key architect of organized crime’s expansion into Las Vegas, becoming one of the most infamous figures of the early 20th-century underworld.
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B.
Joe Klecko
Joe Klecko is a former American football defensive lineman best known as a dominant member of the New York Jets' famed "New York Sack Exchange" and a Pro Football Hall of Famer.
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C.
Rich Gotham
Rich Gotham is an American sports executive best known for serving as the president of the NBA’s Boston Celtics.
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D.
Uncle Joe
Uncle Joe is a colloquial nickname for Joseph Stalin, the Soviet dictator who led the USSR through World War II and oversaw widespread political repression.
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E.
Sam Jones
Sam Jones was a Hall of Fame shooting guard who won 10 NBA championships with the Boston Celtics during the 1950s and 1960s, making him one of the most decorated players in league history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American mobster
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crime boss ⓘ gangster ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activeIn |
Chicago, Illinois, United States
ⓘ
Prohibition era in the United States ⓘ
surface form:
Prohibition era
|
| alias | Scarface ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Bugs Moran (as rival)
ⓘ
Frank Nitti ⓘ Johnny Torrio ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1899-01-17 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Brooklyn
ⓘ
surface form:
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States
|
| causeOfDeath |
cardiac arrest
ⓘ
complications of syphilis ⓘ |
| child |
Al Capone
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Albert Francis "Sonny" Capone
|
| convictedIn |
federal judiciary of the United States
ⓘ
surface form:
United States federal court
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| criminalCharge | tax evasion ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1947-01-25 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Palm Island, Miami Beach, Florida, United States ⓘ |
| education | expelled from school in Brooklyn ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | Italian-American ⓘ |
| familyName |
Al Capone
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Capone
|
| fullName |
Al Capone
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Alphonse Gabriel Capone
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| givenName | Alphonse ⓘ |
| imprisonedAt |
Alcatraz Island
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surface form:
Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary
Atlanta U.S. Penitentiary ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
Italian ⓘ |
| mediaPortrayal | subject of numerous films and television works ⓘ |
| memberOf | Chicago Outfit ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic | symbol of organized crime in the United States ⓘ |
| notableEvent | St. Valentine’s Day Massacre association ⓘ |
| notableFor |
involvement in organized crime during Prohibition
ⓘ
leadership of the Chicago Outfit ⓘ |
| occupation |
bootlegger
ⓘ
crime boss ⓘ gangster ⓘ racketeer ⓘ |
| parents |
Gabriele Capone
ⓘ
Teresa Capone ⓘ |
| penalty | 11 years in federal prison ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1939-11-16 ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| residence |
Chicago, Illinois, United States
ⓘ
Miami Beach ⓘ
surface form:
Miami Beach, Florida, United States
|
| spouse | Mae Capone ⓘ |
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: Al Capone Description of subject: Al Capone was a notorious American gangster and crime boss of the Prohibition era, best known for leading the Chicago Outfit and becoming an enduring symbol of organized crime in the United States.
Referenced by (72)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Alphonse Gabriel Capone
this entity surface form:
Capone
this entity surface form:
Albert Francis "Sonny" Capone
subject surface form:
Bugs Moran
this entity surface form:
Alphonse Gabriel Capone
this entity surface form:
Alphonse Gabriel Capone
subject surface form:
Alphonse Capone
this entity surface form:
Capone
subject surface form:
Alphonse Capone
this entity surface form:
Alphonse Gabriel Capone
subject surface form:
Alphonse Capone
subject surface form:
Agent George Stone
subject surface form:
Giuseppe Petri
subject surface form:
Johnny Torrio
subject surface form:
Johnny Torrio