Lucky Luciano
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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.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lucky Luciano canonical | 22 |
| Charles "Lucky" Luciano | 16 |
| Charles Luciano | 2 |
| Charles "Lucky" Luciano crime family | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T171175 — 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: Lucky Luciano Context triple: [Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, associatedWith, Lucky Luciano]
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A.
Meyer Lansky
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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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.
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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D.
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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E.
George "Machine Gun" Kelly
George "Machine Gun" Kelly was a notorious American gangster and Prohibition-era kidnapper whose high-profile crimes made him one of the early public enemies of the 1930s.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Lucky Luciano Target entity description: 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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A.
Meyer Lansky
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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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.
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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D.
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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E.
George "Machine Gun" Kelly
George "Machine Gun" Kelly was a notorious American gangster and Prohibition-era kidnapper whose high-profile crimes made him one of the early public enemies of the 1930s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (58)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Italian-American
ⓘ
mobster ⓘ organized crime boss ⓘ person ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Lucky Luciano
ⓘ
surface form:
Charles Luciano
Charlie Lucky ⓘ |
| arrestedFor | compulsory prostitution ⓘ |
| birthName | Salvatore Lucania ⓘ |
| burialPlace | St. John Cemetery, Queens, New York City, United States ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | heart attack ⓘ |
| convictedOf | compulsory prostitution ⓘ |
| convictionYear | 1936 ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Italy ⓘ |
| created |
Commission (American Mafia)
ⓘ
surface form:
The Commission (governing body of the American Mafia)
|
| criminalActivity |
bootlegging
ⓘ
extortion ⓘ gambling ⓘ narcotics trafficking ⓘ prostitution rackets ⓘ |
| criminalOrganization |
Murder, Inc.
ⓘ
surface form:
American Mafia
Luciano crime family ⓘ
surface form:
Genovese crime family
|
| dateOfBirth | 1897-11-24 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1962-01-26 ⓘ |
| deportationYear | 1946 ⓘ |
| deportedTo | Italy ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Sicilian ⓘ |
| immigratedTo |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| immigrationYear | 1906 ⓘ |
| inPopularCulture |
portrayed in multiple films and television series about the Mafia
ⓘ
subject of numerous books on organized crime ⓘ |
| knownFor |
ending the dominance of the old-line Sicilian Mafia bosses in New York
ⓘ
establishing The Commission to govern the American Mafia ⓘ founding father of modern American organized crime ⓘ key architect of the national crime syndicate in the United States ⓘ |
| laterResidence |
Naples
ⓘ
surface form:
Naples, Italy
|
| nationality |
American
ⓘ
Italian ⓘ |
| notableEvent | helped organize the national crime syndicate in the early 1930s ⓘ |
| occupation |
bootlegger
ⓘ
crime boss ⓘ mobster ⓘ racketeer ⓘ |
| partnerInCrime |
Albert Anastasia
ⓘ
Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel ⓘ Dutch Schultz ⓘ Frank Costello ⓘ Lepke Buchalter ⓘ
surface form:
Louis "Lepke" Buchalter
Meyer Lansky ⓘ Vito Genovese ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Lercara Friddi, Sicily, Italy ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Naples
ⓘ
surface form:
Naples, Italy
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| placeOfImprisonment | Clinton Correctional Facility, Dannemora, New York, United States ⓘ |
| reasonForRelease | commutation of sentence for alleged assistance to U.S. war efforts during World War II ⓘ |
| releasedFromPrisonYear | 1946 ⓘ |
| religion |
Roman Catholicism
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surface form:
Roman Catholic
|
| residence |
New York City
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surface form:
New York City, New York, United States
|
| roleInOrganization | boss of what became the Genovese crime family ⓘ |
| sentence | 30 to 50 years in prison ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Subject: Lucky Luciano Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (41)
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