James W. McCord Jr.
E178074
James W. McCord Jr. was a former CIA officer and security coordinator whose role in the Watergate break-in and subsequent revelations helped expose the broader Nixon administration scandal.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| James W. McCord Jr. canonical | 2 |
| James Walter McCord Jr. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1482737 — 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: James W. McCord Jr. Context triple: [CREEP, employed, James W. McCord Jr.]
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A.
William F. Raynolds
William F. Raynolds was a 19th-century U.S. Army officer and explorer known for his surveying and exploratory expeditions in North America and beyond.
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B.
Eugene E. Covert
Eugene E. Covert was an American aeronautical engineer and MIT professor who served as the chief scientist of the U.S. Air Force and was a noted expert in fluid mechanics and aerospace technology.
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C.
Michael P. Shawver
Michael P. Shawver is a film editor known for his frequent collaborations with director Ryan Coogler on acclaimed films such as Fruitvale Station, Creed, and Black Panther.
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D.
Stephen T. Early
Stephen T. Early was a prominent American government official and longtime press secretary to President Franklin D. Roosevelt who later became the first U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense.
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E.
John Church
John Church is a notable individual who bears the English surname "Church," though specific widely recognized details about his life or achievements are not clearly established.
- 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: James W. McCord Jr. Target entity description: James W. McCord Jr. was a former CIA officer and security coordinator whose role in the Watergate break-in and subsequent revelations helped expose the broader Nixon administration scandal.
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A.
William F. Raynolds
William F. Raynolds was a 19th-century U.S. Army officer and explorer known for his surveying and exploratory expeditions in North America and beyond.
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B.
Eugene E. Covert
Eugene E. Covert was an American aeronautical engineer and MIT professor who served as the chief scientist of the U.S. Air Force and was a noted expert in fluid mechanics and aerospace technology.
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C.
Michael P. Shawver
Michael P. Shawver is a film editor known for his frequent collaborations with director Ryan Coogler on acclaimed films such as Fruitvale Station, Creed, and Black Panther.
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D.
Stephen T. Early
Stephen T. Early was a prominent American government official and longtime press secretary to President Franklin D. Roosevelt who later became the first U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense.
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E.
John Church
John Church is a notable individual who bears the English surname "Church," though specific widely recognized details about his life or achievements are not clearly established.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
burglar
ⓘ
intelligence officer ⓘ person ⓘ whistleblower ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
E. Howard Hunt
ⓘ
G. Gordon Liddy ⓘ Nixon administration ⓘ
surface form:
Richard Nixon administration
|
| birthDate | 1924-01-26 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Wyalusing, Pennsylvania, United States ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | pancreatic cancer ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| convictedIn | United States District Court for the District of Columbia ⓘ |
| criminalCharge |
burglary
ⓘ
conspiracy ⓘ wiretapping ⓘ |
| date | 1973-03-19 ⓘ |
| dateOfEvent | 1972-06-17 ⓘ |
| deathDate | 2017-06-15 ⓘ |
| education |
Baylor University
ⓘ
George Washington University ⓘ |
| employer |
Central Intelligence Agency
ⓘ
Committee to Re-elect the President (CREEP) ⓘ
surface form:
Committee to Re-elect the President
Federal Bureau of Investigation ⓘ |
| familyName | McCord ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | security and intelligence ⓘ |
| fullName |
James W. McCord Jr.
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
James Walter McCord Jr.
|
| genreOfActivity | political espionage ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| influenced |
expansion of Watergate investigation
ⓘ
exposure of higher-level involvement in Watergate scandal ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Committee to Re-elect the President (CREEP)
ⓘ
surface form:
Committee to Re-elect the President
|
| militaryBranch | United States Army Air Forces ⓘ |
| notableEvent | arrest at Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate complex ⓘ |
| notableFor |
helping expose the broader Watergate cover-up through his testimony and letter
ⓘ
letter to Judge John J. Sirica alleging political pressure and perjury in Watergate case ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Watergate scandal
ⓘ
surface form:
Watergate burglary
|
| occupation |
Central Intelligence Agency officer
ⓘ
security consultant ⓘ |
| participantIn |
Watergate scandal
ⓘ
surface form:
Watergate break-in
Watergate scandal ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Douglassville, Pennsylvania
ⓘ
surface form:
Douglassville, Pennsylvania, United States
|
| positionHeld |
security coordinator for the Committee to Re-elect the President
ⓘ
security director for the Committee to Re-elect the President ⓘ |
| religion | Presbyterianism ⓘ |
| residence |
Maryland
ⓘ
surface form:
Maryland, United States
|
| roleInEvent | organizer of electronic surveillance at the Democratic National Committee headquarters ⓘ |
| spouse | Ruth McCord ⓘ |
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: James W. McCord Jr. Description of subject: James W. McCord Jr. was a former CIA officer and security coordinator whose role in the Watergate break-in and subsequent revelations helped expose the broader Nixon administration scandal.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
James Walter McCord Jr.
subject surface form:
Committee to Re-elect the President