Crocker National Bank
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Crocker National Bank was a major California-based commercial bank historically controlled by the influential Crocker family before being acquired by larger banking institutions.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Crocker Bank | 2 |
| Crocker National Bank canonical | 2 |
| Crocker First National Bank | 1 |
| United California Bank | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T955629 — 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: Crocker National Bank Context triple: [Crocker family, associatedWith, Crocker National Bank]
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A.
Jefferson Valley
Jefferson Valley is a residential hamlet within the town of Yorktown in Westchester County, New York.
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B.
First National Bank of Omaha
First National Bank of Omaha is a major regional U.S. bank and financial services company headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, known for its consumer and commercial banking and credit card operations.
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C.
Fifth Third Bank
Fifth Third Bank is a major U.S. regional banking corporation offering retail, commercial, and financial services, primarily serving customers across the Midwest and Southeast.
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D.
First Trust Bank
First Trust Bank is a Northern Ireland-based commercial bank known for providing retail and business banking services and, historically, for issuing its own banknotes.
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E.
Grant and Maddison Bank
Grant and Maddison Bank was a 19th-century British banking firm known for employing William Erasmus Darwin, the eldest son of Charles Darwin.
- 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: Crocker National Bank Target entity description: Crocker National Bank was a major California-based commercial bank historically controlled by the influential Crocker family before being acquired by larger banking institutions.
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A.
Jefferson Valley
Jefferson Valley is a residential hamlet within the town of Yorktown in Westchester County, New York.
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B.
First National Bank of Omaha
First National Bank of Omaha is a major regional U.S. bank and financial services company headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, known for its consumer and commercial banking and credit card operations.
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C.
Fifth Third Bank
Fifth Third Bank is a major U.S. regional banking corporation offering retail, commercial, and financial services, primarily serving customers across the Midwest and Southeast.
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D.
First Trust Bank
First Trust Bank is a Northern Ireland-based commercial bank known for providing retail and business banking services and, historically, for issuing its own banknotes.
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E.
Grant and Maddison Bank
Grant and Maddison Bank was a 19th-century British banking firm known for employing William Erasmus Darwin, the eldest son of Charles Darwin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
commercial bank
ⓘ
defunct bank ⓘ |
| acquiredBy |
Midland Bank
ⓘ
Wells Fargo ⓘ |
| category |
Banks based in California
ⓘ
Defunct banks of the United States ⓘ |
| controlledBy |
the Crocker family
ⓘ
surface form:
Crocker family
|
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| fate | acquired by larger banking institutions ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
San Francisco, California, United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
San Francisco, California
|
| industry | banking ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
|
| namedAfter |
the Crocker family
ⓘ
surface form:
Crocker family
|
| notableFor |
being one of the major California-based banks in the 20th century
ⓘ
historical association with the Crocker family ⓘ |
| operatedAs |
Crocker National Bank
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Crocker Bank
|
| predecessor |
Crocker National Bank
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Crocker First National Bank
|
| product |
checking accounts
ⓘ
commercial loans ⓘ consumer loans ⓘ credit cards ⓘ mortgages ⓘ savings accounts ⓘ |
| servedRegion |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
western United States ⓘ
surface form:
Western United States
|
| status | defunct ⓘ |
| successor | Wells Fargo ⓘ |
| type |
commercial banking
ⓘ
retail banking ⓘ |
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: Crocker National Bank Description of subject: Crocker National Bank was a major California-based commercial bank historically controlled by the influential Crocker family before being acquired by larger banking institutions.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Crocker family
this entity surface form:
Crocker Bank
this entity surface form:
Crocker First National Bank
this entity surface form:
Crocker Bank
this entity surface form:
United California Bank