Richard Cordray
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Richard Cordray is an American lawyer and politician who served as the first Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and later became the Democratic nominee for governor of Ohio.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Richard Cordray canonical | 3 |
| Cordray | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T925678 — 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: Richard Cordray Context triple: [Mick Mulvaney, precededBy (Acting CFPB Director), Richard Cordray]
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A.
Randal K. Quarles
Randal K. Quarles is an American lawyer and financial policymaker who served as a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and played a key role in U.S. banking regulation and financial stability oversight.
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B.
Jack Lew
Jack Lew is an American public official and attorney who served as the 76th United States Secretary of the Treasury under President Barack Obama.
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C.
Jerome H. Powell
Jerome H. Powell is an American lawyer and economist who serves as the Chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, overseeing the nation’s central banking system and monetary policy.
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D.
Jessica Rosenworcel
Jessica Rosenworcel is an American lawyer and policymaker who serves as the chair of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, known for her advocacy on issues like net neutrality, broadband access, and closing the digital divide.
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E.
James Volcker
James Volcker is the son of former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul A. Volcker.
- 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: Richard Cordray Target entity description: Richard Cordray is an American lawyer and politician who served as the first Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and later became the Democratic nominee for governor of Ohio.
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A.
Randal K. Quarles
Randal K. Quarles is an American lawyer and financial policymaker who served as a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and played a key role in U.S. banking regulation and financial stability oversight.
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B.
Jack Lew
Jack Lew is an American public official and attorney who served as the 76th United States Secretary of the Treasury under President Barack Obama.
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C.
Jerome H. Powell
Jerome H. Powell is an American lawyer and economist who serves as the Chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, overseeing the nation’s central banking system and monetary policy.
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D.
Jessica Rosenworcel
Jessica Rosenworcel is an American lawyer and policymaker who serves as the chair of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, known for her advocacy on issues like net neutrality, broadband access, and closing the digital divide.
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E.
James Volcker
James Volcker is the son of former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul A. Volcker.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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lawyer ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| almaMater |
Michigan State College
ⓘ
surface form:
Michigan State University
University of Chicago Law School ⓘ University of Oxford ⓘ |
| appointedBy | Barack Obama ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| degree |
Juris Doctor
ⓘ
bachelor's degree in legal and political philosophy ⓘ master's degree in economics ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Michigan State College
ⓘ
surface form:
Michigan State University
University of Chicago Law School ⓘ University of Oxford ⓘ |
| familyName |
Richard Cordray
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Cordray
|
| fieldOfWork |
consumer financial protection
ⓘ
law ⓘ public policy ⓘ |
| givenName | Richard ⓘ |
| hasRole |
consumer protection regulator
ⓘ
public servant ⓘ |
| hasWorkedIn |
Ohio state government
ⓘ
United States government ⓘ
surface form:
federal government of the United States
|
| jurisdiction | Ohio ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Democratic politics in Ohio
ⓘ
advocacy for consumer rights ⓘ leading the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| legalSystemPracticed | common law of the United States ⓘ |
| memberOf | Democratic Party ⓘ |
| name | Richard Cordray self-link ⓘ |
| notableWork | first Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ⓘ |
| occupation |
lawyer
ⓘ
politician ⓘ |
| officeContested | Governor of Ohio ⓘ |
| politicalParty | Democratic Party ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Attorney General
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surface form:
Attorney General of Ohio
Democratic nominee for Governor of Ohio ⓘ Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ⓘ Member of the Ohio House of Representatives ⓘ Member of the Ohio State Board of Education ⓘ Solicitor General of Ohio ⓘ Treasurer of Ohio ⓘ |
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: Richard Cordray Description of subject: Richard Cordray is an American lawyer and politician who served as the first Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and later became the Democratic nominee for governor of Ohio.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Cordray