Tobias Read (as Oregon State Treasurer)
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Tobias Read is an American politician and Democrat who has served as Oregon State Treasurer, overseeing the state’s investments, public finance programs, and financial stewardship.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tobias Read (as Oregon State Treasurer) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T92634 — 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: Tobias Read (as Oregon State Treasurer) Context triple: [Ted Wheeler, replacedBy, Tobias Read (as Oregon State Treasurer)]
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A.
Oregon State Treasurer
The Oregon State Treasurer is the elected official responsible for managing the state's finances, investments, and public debt.
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B.
Portland City Auditor
The Portland City Auditor is an independently elected official responsible for overseeing government accountability, transparency, and performance auditing within the City of Portland.
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C.
Benjamin A. Smith II
Benjamin A. Smith II was a Massachusetts politician and close friend of the Kennedy family who briefly served in the U.S. Senate before being succeeded by Edward M. Kennedy.
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D.
Alan M. Garber
Alan M. Garber is an American physician-economist and academic leader known for his work in health policy and for serving in top administrative roles at Harvard University.
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E.
Government of Oregon
The Government of Oregon is the state’s governing authority, encompassing executive, legislative, and judicial branches that administer public policy and services across Oregon.
- 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: Tobias Read (as Oregon State Treasurer) Target entity description: Tobias Read is an American politician and Democrat who has served as Oregon State Treasurer, overseeing the state’s investments, public finance programs, and financial stewardship.
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A.
Oregon State Treasurer
The Oregon State Treasurer is the elected official responsible for managing the state's finances, investments, and public debt.
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B.
Portland City Auditor
The Portland City Auditor is an independently elected official responsible for overseeing government accountability, transparency, and performance auditing within the City of Portland.
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C.
Benjamin A. Smith II
Benjamin A. Smith II was a Massachusetts politician and close friend of the Kennedy family who briefly served in the U.S. Senate before being succeeded by Edward M. Kennedy.
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D.
Alan M. Garber
Alan M. Garber is an American physician-economist and academic leader known for his work in health policy and for serving in top administrative roles at Harvard University.
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E.
Government of Oregon
The Government of Oregon is the state’s governing authority, encompassing executive, legislative, and judicial branches that administer public policy and services across Oregon.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
politician ⓘ state treasurer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Washington
ⓘ
University of Washington ⓘ
surface form:
University of Washington Foster School of Business
Willamette University ⓘ Willamette University College of Law ⓘ |
| employer |
Oregon
ⓘ
surface form:
State of Oregon
|
| familyName | Read ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
public finance
ⓘ
public policy ⓘ state investments management ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName |
Tobias Read
ⓘ
surface form:
Tobias
|
| jurisdictionGoverned | Oregon ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Democratic Party ⓘ |
| name | Tobias Read ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Administration of Oregon public finance programs as State Treasurer
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Financial stewardship of Oregon state funds ⓘ Oversight of Oregon state investment portfolio as State Treasurer ⓘ |
| occupation |
politician
ⓘ
state treasurer ⓘ |
| officeContested | Governor of Oregon ⓘ |
| partyAffiliation |
Democratic Party
ⓘ
surface form:
Democratic Party of Oregon
|
| positionHeld |
Member of the Oregon House of Representatives
ⓘ
Oregon State Treasurer ⓘ |
| residence | Oregon ⓘ |
| stateRepresented | Oregon ⓘ |
| workLocation | Salem, Oregon ⓘ |
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: Tobias Read (as Oregon State Treasurer) Description of subject: Tobias Read is an American politician and Democrat who has served as Oregon State Treasurer, overseeing the state’s investments, public finance programs, and financial stewardship.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.