Meyer Lansky
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Meyer Lansky was a major American organized crime figure and financial mastermind who helped build the National Crime Syndicate and modernize the mob’s gambling operations.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Meyer Lansky canonical | 41 |
| Lansky | 5 |
| Meyer Lansky II (grandson shares name) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T171174 — 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: Meyer Lansky Context triple: [Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, associatedWith, Meyer Lansky]
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A.
Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel
Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel was a notorious American mobster and key architect of organized crime’s expansion into Las Vegas, becoming one of the most infamous figures of the early 20th-century underworld.
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B.
Al Capone
Al Capone was a notorious American gangster and crime boss of the Prohibition era, best known for leading the Chicago Outfit and becoming an enduring symbol of organized crime in the United States.
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C.
Joe Klecko
Joe Klecko is a former American football defensive lineman best known as a dominant member of the New York Jets' famed "New York Sack Exchange" and a Pro Football Hall of Famer.
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D.
Albert West
Albert West was an associate of Mahatma Gandhi and an early supporter of his work in South Africa, contributing to Gandhi’s newspaper Indian Opinion and assisting in the development of the Phoenix Settlement.
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E.
Don Ivan Punchatz
Don Ivan Punchatz was an American illustrator and painter renowned for his imaginative science fiction and fantasy artwork, including iconic book covers and magazine illustrations.
- 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: Meyer Lansky Target entity description: Meyer Lansky was a major American organized crime figure and financial mastermind who helped build the National Crime Syndicate and modernize the mob’s gambling operations.
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A.
Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel
Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel was a notorious American mobster and key architect of organized crime’s expansion into Las Vegas, becoming one of the most infamous figures of the early 20th-century underworld.
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B.
Al Capone
Al Capone was a notorious American gangster and crime boss of the Prohibition era, best known for leading the Chicago Outfit and becoming an enduring symbol of organized crime in the United States.
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C.
Joe Klecko
Joe Klecko is a former American football defensive lineman best known as a dominant member of the New York Jets' famed "New York Sack Exchange" and a Pro Football Hall of Famer.
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D.
Albert West
Albert West was an associate of Mahatma Gandhi and an early supporter of his work in South Africa, contributing to Gandhi’s newspaper Indian Opinion and assisting in the development of the Phoenix Settlement.
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E.
Don Ivan Punchatz
Don Ivan Punchatz was an American illustrator and painter renowned for his imaginative science fiction and fantasy artwork, including iconic book covers and magazine illustrations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American gangster
ⓘ
mobster ⓘ organized crime figure ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activity |
bootlegging
ⓘ
illegal gambling ⓘ money laundering ⓘ racketeering ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel
ⓘ
surface form:
Bugsy Siegel
Frank Costello ⓘ Lucky Luciano ⓘ Murder, Inc. ⓘ |
| attemptedToSeekAsylumIn | Israel ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1902-07-04 ⓘ |
| birthName | Meyer Suchowljansky ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Hrodna
ⓘ
surface form:
Grodno
Russian Empire ⓘ present-day Belarus ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Mount Nebo Cemetery, Miami, Florida ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | lung cancer ⓘ |
| chargedWith | tax evasion ⓘ |
| coFounded | National Crime Syndicate ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1983-01-15 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Miami Beach
ⓘ
surface form:
Miami Beach, Florida, United States
|
| ethnicGroup | Jewish ⓘ |
| extraditedFrom | Israel ⓘ |
| familyName |
Meyer Lansky
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Lansky
|
| fullName | Meyer Lansky self-link ⓘ |
| givenName | Meyer ⓘ |
| helpedDevelop |
Havana, Cuba, casino operations for American mob
ⓘ
Las Vegas casino industry connections for organized crime ⓘ |
| immigratedTo | United States of America ⓘ |
| influenced | structure of modern organized crime finances in the United States ⓘ |
| involvedIn | Cuban casino enterprises before the Cuban Revolution ⓘ |
| knownAs |
the Chairman of the Board
ⓘ
the Mob's Accountant ⓘ |
| legalOutcome | acquitted on some major charges ⓘ |
| memberOf | National Crime Syndicate ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic | expertise in financial schemes and money management for the mob ⓘ |
| notableFor |
development of mob-controlled gambling operations
ⓘ
financial management of the National Crime Syndicate ⓘ role in American organized crime ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 3 ⓘ |
| occupation |
gangster
ⓘ
organized crime leader ⓘ racketeer ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| residence |
Miami Beach
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surface form:
Miami Beach, Florida
New York City ⓘ |
| spouse |
Anne Citron
ⓘ
Thelma Schwartz ⓘ |
| targetOf | United States federal investigations ⓘ |
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: Meyer Lansky Description of subject: Meyer Lansky was a major American organized crime figure and financial mastermind who helped build the National Crime Syndicate and modernize the mob’s gambling operations.
Referenced by (47)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Lansky
subject surface form:
Benjamin Siegel
subject surface form:
Meyer Lansky
this entity surface form:
Lansky
subject surface form:
Lucky Luciano
subject surface form:
Meyer Lansky
this entity surface form:
Meyer Lansky II (grandson shares name)
this entity surface form:
Lansky
this entity surface form:
Lansky
this entity surface form:
Lansky