Albert Anastasia
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Albert Anastasia was a notorious American mobster and hitman, co-founder of Murder, Inc., and a powerful boss in the New York Mafia during the mid-20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Albert Anastasia canonical | 17 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T985491 — 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: Albert Anastasia Context triple: [National Crime Syndicate, notableMember, Albert Anastasia]
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A.
Eduard
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B.
Rus Yusupov
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C.
James Ashmore Creelman
James Ashmore Creelman was an American screenwriter best known for his work on early 1930s adventure and horror films, including the classic monster movie King Kong.
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D.
Gregor Strasser
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E.
Ann Gelius Austerlitz
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- 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: Albert Anastasia Target entity description: Albert Anastasia was a notorious American mobster and hitman, co-founder of Murder, Inc., and a powerful boss in the New York Mafia during the mid-20th century.
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A.
Eduard
Eduard was the younger son of physicist Albert Einstein, known for his promising studies in psychiatry and his lifelong struggle with schizophrenia.
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B.
Rus Yusupov
Rus Yusupov is a tech entrepreneur and designer best known as a co-founder of the short-form video platform Vine.
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C.
James Ashmore Creelman
James Ashmore Creelman was an American screenwriter best known for his work on early 1930s adventure and horror films, including the classic monster movie King Kong.
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D.
Gregor Strasser
Gregor Strasser was a prominent early Nazi leader and rival to Adolf Hitler, known for advocating a more socialist-oriented version of National Socialism before being purged and killed during the Night of the Long Knives.
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E.
Ann Gelius Austerlitz
Ann Gelius Austerlitz was the mother of legendary American dancer, singer, and actor Fred Astaire.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crime boss
ⓘ
hitman ⓘ human ⓘ mobster ⓘ |
| activityLocation |
Brooklyn
ⓘ
surface form:
Brooklyn, New York
New York City ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Albert Anastasia
ⓘ
Lord High Executioner ⓘ The Mad Hatter ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Carlo Gambino
ⓘ
Lucky Luciano ⓘ
surface form:
Charles "Lucky" Luciano
Frank Costello ⓘ Philip Mangano ⓘ Vincent Mangano ⓘ Vito Genovese ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1902-09-26 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Tropea, Calabria, Italy ⓘ |
| bossOf |
Anastasia crime family
ⓘ
Gambino crime family ⓘ
surface form:
Mangano crime family
|
| burialPlace |
Green-Wood Cemetery
ⓘ
surface form:
Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York
|
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| coFounderOf | Murder, Inc. ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Italy ⓘ |
| crimeSpecialization |
contract killing
ⓘ
extortion ⓘ labor racketeering ⓘ murder ⓘ |
| deathCause | gunshot wounds ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1957-10-25 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Park Sheraton Hotel, Manhattan, New York City ⓘ |
| era | mid-20th century American organized crime ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Italian American ⓘ |
| family | Gambino crime family predecessor ⓘ |
| fullName | Umberto Anastasio ⓘ |
| killedAt | barber shop in Park Sheraton Hotel ⓘ |
| legalIssue | indicted for murder in the 1930s ⓘ |
| legalOutcome |
charges dismissed after witnesses disappeared
ⓘ
murder conviction overturned on appeal ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | assassination ⓘ |
| memberOf |
American Cosa Nostra
ⓘ
surface form:
American Mafia
Murder, Inc. ⓘ National Crime Syndicate ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of the most feared mobsters in New York
ⓘ
leadership role in Murder, Inc. ⓘ |
| occupation |
crime boss
ⓘ
hitman ⓘ labor racketeer ⓘ mobster ⓘ |
| powerBase |
longshoremen unions
ⓘ
waterfront rackets ⓘ |
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: Albert Anastasia Description of subject: Albert Anastasia was a notorious American mobster and hitman, co-founder of Murder, Inc., and a powerful boss in the New York Mafia during the mid-20th century.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.