Michael Mukasey
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Michael Mukasey is an American lawyer and former federal judge who served as the 81st United States Attorney General under President George W. Bush.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Michael Mukasey canonical | 2 |
| Michael Bernard Mukasey | 1 |
| Mukasey | 1 |
| Susan Mukasey | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1430999 — 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: Michael Mukasey Context triple: [Alberto Gonzales, succeededBy, Michael Mukasey]
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A.
Alberto Gonzales
Alberto Gonzales is an American lawyer and former U.S. Attorney General who served in the George W. Bush administration and was the first Hispanic person to hold that office.
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B.
Eric Holder
Eric Holder is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 82nd United States Attorney General, becoming the first African American to hold that office.
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C.
John Ashcroft
John Ashcroft is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 79th United States Attorney General under President George W. Bush and previously as a U.S. senator from Missouri.
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D.
David J. Barron
David J. Barron is an American jurist and former Harvard Law School professor who serves as the Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
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E.
Janet Reno
Janet Reno was the first woman to serve as Attorney General of the United States, holding the office under President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 2001.
- 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: Michael Mukasey Target entity description: Michael Mukasey is an American lawyer and former federal judge who served as the 81st United States Attorney General under President George W. Bush.
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A.
Alberto Gonzales
Alberto Gonzales is an American lawyer and former U.S. Attorney General who served in the George W. Bush administration and was the first Hispanic person to hold that office.
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B.
Eric Holder
Eric Holder is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 82nd United States Attorney General, becoming the first African American to hold that office.
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C.
John Ashcroft
John Ashcroft is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 79th United States Attorney General under President George W. Bush and previously as a U.S. senator from Missouri.
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D.
David J. Barron
David J. Barron is an American jurist and former Harvard Law School professor who serves as the Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
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E.
Janet Reno
Janet Reno was the first woman to serve as Attorney General of the United States, holding the office under President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 2001.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Attorney General
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human ⓘ judge ⓘ lawyer ⓘ |
| appointedAsJudgeBy | Ronald Reagan ⓘ |
| appointedBy | George W. Bush ⓘ |
| child | Marc Mukasey ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1941-07-28 ⓘ |
| degree |
Bachelor of Arts
ⓘ
Juris Doctor ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Columbia University
ⓘ
Yale Law School ⓘ |
| endTime | 2009-01-20 ⓘ |
| endTime (Chief Judge SDNY) | 2006 ⓘ |
| endTime (SDNY judgeship) | 2006-09-09 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Jewish Americans
ⓘ
surface form:
American Jews
|
| familyName |
Michael Mukasey
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Mukasey
|
| fullName |
Michael Mukasey
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Michael Bernard Mukasey
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| givenName | Michael ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | New York State Bar ⓘ |
| nominatedBy | George W. Bush ⓘ |
| notableCase |
Jose Padilla terrorism case
ⓘ
1993 World Trade Center bombing ⓘ
surface form:
World Trade Center bombing-related cases
|
| notableWork | writings and speeches on national security and terrorism law ⓘ |
| occupation |
judge
ⓘ
lawyer ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| officeEndTime (U.S. Attorney General) | 2009-01-20 ⓘ |
| officeStartTime (U.S. Attorney General) | 2007-11-09 ⓘ |
| ordinalInOffice |
United States Attorney General
ⓘ
surface form:
81st United States Attorney General
|
| placeOfBirth |
The Bronx, New York City, New York, United States
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surface form:
Bronx, New York City, New York, United States
|
| politicalAlignment |
Republican Party
ⓘ
surface form:
Republican Party (United States)
|
| positionHeld |
Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
ⓘ
Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York ⓘ United States Attorney General ⓘ |
| predecessor | Alberto Gonzales ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| spouse |
Michael Mukasey
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Susan Mukasey
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| startTime | 2007-11-09 ⓘ |
| startTime (Chief Judge SDNY) | 2000 ⓘ |
| startTime (SDNY judgeship) | 1988-03-09 ⓘ |
| successor | Eric Holder ⓘ |
| workLocation |
New York City
ⓘ
Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Michael Mukasey Description of subject: Michael Mukasey is an American lawyer and former federal judge who served as the 81st United States Attorney General under President George W. Bush.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Michael Bernard Mukasey
this entity surface form:
Mukasey
this entity surface form:
Susan Mukasey