Carlo Gambino
E181066
Carlo Gambino was a powerful Italian-American mobster who led the Gambino crime family and became one of the most influential Mafia bosses in U.S. history.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Carlo Gambino canonical | 8 |
| Gambino | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1588970 — 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.
Target entity: Carlo Gambino Context triple: [Calvary Cemetery, Queens, hasBurial, Carlo Gambino]
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A.
Vito Genovese
Vito Genovese was a powerful Italian-American mob boss who led the Genovese crime family and became one of the most influential figures in organized crime in the mid-20th century United States.
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B.
Frank Nitti
Frank Nitti was a prominent Italian-American mobster who became one of the key leaders of the Chicago Outfit, especially after Al Capone’s imprisonment.
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C.
Lucky Luciano
Lucky Luciano was a notorious Italian-American mobster who became a founding father of modern organized crime in the United States and a key architect of the national crime syndicate.
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D.
Frank Costello
Frank Costello was a powerful Italian-American mob boss and political fixer who led the Luciano crime family and became known as the "Prime Minister of the Underworld" in mid-20th-century New York.
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E.
Johnny Torrio
Johnny Torrio was an influential Italian-American mobster and mentor to Al Capone who helped organize and modernize Chicago’s criminal underworld during the Prohibition era.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Carlo Gambino Target entity description: Carlo Gambino was a powerful Italian-American mobster who led the Gambino crime family and became one of the most influential Mafia bosses in U.S. history.
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A.
Vito Genovese
Vito Genovese was a powerful Italian-American mob boss who led the Genovese crime family and became one of the most influential figures in organized crime in the mid-20th century United States.
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B.
Frank Nitti
Frank Nitti was a prominent Italian-American mobster who became one of the key leaders of the Chicago Outfit, especially after Al Capone’s imprisonment.
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C.
Lucky Luciano
Lucky Luciano was a notorious Italian-American mobster who became a founding father of modern organized crime in the United States and a key architect of the national crime syndicate.
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D.
Frank Costello
Frank Costello was a powerful Italian-American mob boss and political fixer who led the Luciano crime family and became known as the "Prime Minister of the Underworld" in mid-20th-century New York.
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E.
Johnny Torrio
Johnny Torrio was an influential Italian-American mobster and mentor to Al Capone who helped organize and modernize Chicago’s criminal underworld during the Prohibition era.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Italian-American
ⓘ
Mafia boss ⓘ human ⓘ mobster ⓘ |
| activeIn | 20th-century American organized crime ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Luciano crime family
ⓘ
surface form:
Genovese crime family
Lucchese crime family ⓘ Commission (American Mafia) ⓘ
surface form:
Mafia Commission
|
| birthName | Carlo Gambino self-link ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
St. John's Cemetery, Queens
ⓘ
surface form:
Saint John Cemetery, Queens
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| causeOfDeath | heart attack ⓘ |
| citizenship |
Italy
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countryOfBirth | Italy ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1902-08-24 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1976-10-15 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Sicilian ⓘ |
| familyName |
Carlo Gambino
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Gambino
|
| fieldOfWork |
extortion
ⓘ
illegal gambling ⓘ loan sharking ⓘ organized crime ⓘ racketeering ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Carlo ⓘ |
| immigratedFrom | Italy ⓘ |
| immigratedTo |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
Italian ⓘ |
| memberOf |
American Cosa Nostra
ⓘ
surface form:
American Mafia
Mafia ⓘ
surface form:
Cosa Nostra
Gambino crime family ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of the most influential Mafia bosses in U.S. history
ⓘ
involvement in organized crime in New York City ⓘ leading the Gambino crime family ⓘ |
| occupation |
crime boss
ⓘ
organized crime figure ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Kingdom of Italy
ⓘ
Palermo ⓘ Sicily ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Massapequa, New York
ⓘ
surface form:
Massapequa
New York ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| positionHeld |
boss of bosses in the American Mafia
ⓘ
boss of the Gambino crime family ⓘ |
| relative | Paul Castellano ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| residence |
Brooklyn
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ |
| spouse | Catherine Castellano ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Subject: Carlo Gambino Description of subject: Carlo Gambino was a powerful Italian-American mobster who led the Gambino crime family and became one of the most influential Mafia bosses in U.S. history.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.