Egil Krogh
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Egil Krogh was a Nixon administration official best known for leading the covert White House "Plumbers" unit involved in political intelligence and the Watergate-era scandals.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Egil Krogh canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1482827 — 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: Egil Krogh Context triple: [White House Plumbers, hasMember, Egil Krogh]
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A.
Christian Bohr
Christian Bohr was a Danish physician and physiologist best known for discovering the Bohr effect, which describes how carbon dioxide and pH influence hemoglobin’s affinity for oxygen.
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B.
Hans Kehrl
Hans Kehrl was a German economist and industrial manager who became a prominent Nazi official involved in economic planning and armaments production during the Third Reich.
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C.
Albert Szent-Györgyi
Albert Szent-Györgyi was a Hungarian physiologist who won the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries related to vitamin C and the components and reactions of the citric acid cycle.
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D.
Holger Crafoord
Holger Crafoord was a Swedish industrialist and philanthropist whose endowment led to the creation of the prestigious Crafoord Prize in scientific research.
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E.
Emil Warburg
Emil Warburg was a prominent German physicist known for his influential work in thermodynamics, gas discharges, and magnetism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- 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: Egil Krogh Target entity description: Egil Krogh was a Nixon administration official best known for leading the covert White House "Plumbers" unit involved in political intelligence and the Watergate-era scandals.
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A.
Christian Bohr
Christian Bohr was a Danish physician and physiologist best known for discovering the Bohr effect, which describes how carbon dioxide and pH influence hemoglobin’s affinity for oxygen.
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B.
Hans Kehrl
Hans Kehrl was a German economist and industrial manager who became a prominent Nazi official involved in economic planning and armaments production during the Third Reich.
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C.
Albert Szent-Györgyi
Albert Szent-Györgyi was a Hungarian physiologist who won the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries related to vitamin C and the components and reactions of the citric acid cycle.
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D.
Holger Crafoord
Holger Crafoord was a Swedish industrialist and philanthropist whose endowment led to the creation of the prestigious Crafoord Prize in scientific research.
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E.
Emil Warburg
Emil Warburg was a prominent German physicist known for his influential work in thermodynamics, gas discharges, and magnetism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States government official
ⓘ
lawyer ⓘ person ⓘ |
| apologizedFor | authorizing the break-in at Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office ⓘ |
| authorOf | Integrity: Good People, Bad Choices, and Life Lessons from the White House ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | heart failure ⓘ |
| convictedOf | conspiracy to violate civil rights ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1939-08-03 ⓘ |
| dateOfConviction | 1973 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2020-01-18 ⓘ |
| dateOfRelease | 1974 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Washington
ⓘ
University of Washington School of Law ⓘ |
| employer |
United States government
ⓘ
surface form:
United States federal government
White House ⓘ |
| familyName | Krogh ⓘ |
| fullName | Egil "Bud" Krogh Jr. ⓘ |
| givenName | Egil ⓘ |
| laterActivity | speaking publicly about the importance of integrity in public service ⓘ |
| laterOccupation |
author
ⓘ
ethics and integrity consultant ⓘ |
| memberOf | Nixon administration ⓘ |
| militaryService | United States Navy Reserve ⓘ |
| nickname | Bud ⓘ |
| notableEvent | resignation from the Nixon administration following revelations about the Plumbers ⓘ |
| notableFor |
involvement in Watergate-era political intelligence operations
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leadership of the White House Plumbers unit ⓘ role in the break-in at the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 3 ⓘ |
| occupation |
civil servant
ⓘ
lawyer ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Pentagon Papers-related covert operations
ⓘ
Watergate scandal ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Seattle, Washington, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Washington, D.C.
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surface form:
Washington, D.C., United States
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| positionHeld |
Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs
ⓘ
head of the White House Special Investigations Unit ⓘ |
| religion | Lutheranism ⓘ |
| sentence | imprisonment ⓘ |
| servedIn | United States Navy Reserve ⓘ |
| servedTimeAt | Federal Correctional Institution, Allenwood ⓘ |
| spouse | Sally Krogh ⓘ |
| subjectOf | public discussions on professional ethics and integrity in government ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Egil Krogh Description of subject: Egil Krogh was a Nixon administration official best known for leading the covert White House "Plumbers" unit involved in political intelligence and the Watergate-era scandals.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.