Douglas Shulman
E269399
Douglas Shulman is an American public official who served as the head of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) during the late 2000s and early 2010s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Douglas Shulman canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1268043 — 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: Douglas Shulman Context triple: [Commissioner of Internal Revenue, positionHeldBy, Douglas Shulman]
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A.
Stanley Saitowitz
Stanley Saitowitz is a South African-born American architect known for his minimalist, modernist designs and influential work in contemporary urban architecture.
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B.
Jack Shulman
Jack Shulman is the son of American actress Anne Hathaway and her husband, actor and businessman Adam Shulman.
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C.
Richard Leibler
Richard Leibler was an American mathematician and statistician best known for co-developing the Kullback–Leibler divergence, a fundamental concept in information theory and statistics.
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D.
Lowell Bergman
Lowell Bergman is an American investigative journalist and producer best known for his work on CBS's "60 Minutes" and for exposing major corporate and political scandals.
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E.
Myron Futterman
Myron Futterman was an American businessman best known for being the first husband of actress Jane Wyman.
- 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: Douglas Shulman Target entity description: Douglas Shulman is an American public official who served as the head of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) during the late 2000s and early 2010s.
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A.
Stanley Saitowitz
Stanley Saitowitz is a South African-born American architect known for his minimalist, modernist designs and influential work in contemporary urban architecture.
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B.
Jack Shulman
Jack Shulman is the son of American actress Anne Hathaway and her husband, actor and businessman Adam Shulman.
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C.
Richard Leibler
Richard Leibler was an American mathematician and statistician best known for co-developing the Kullback–Leibler divergence, a fundamental concept in information theory and statistics.
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D.
Lowell Bergman
Lowell Bergman is an American investigative journalist and producer best known for his work on CBS's "60 Minutes" and for exposing major corporate and political scandals.
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E.
Myron Futterman
Myron Futterman was an American businessman best known for being the first husband of actress Jane Wyman.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American public official
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| appointedBy | George W. Bush ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer |
Internal Revenue Service
ⓘ
United States government ⓘ
surface form:
United States federal government
|
| fieldOfWork |
public administration
ⓘ
tax administration ⓘ |
| headOfGovernmentOrganization | Internal Revenue Service ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | United States federal tax system ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
executive branch of the United States
ⓘ
surface form:
United States executive branch
|
| name | Douglas Shulman self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor | serving as head of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service in the late 2000s and early 2010s ⓘ |
| occupation |
government executive
ⓘ
public official ⓘ |
| partOf | United States Department of the Treasury ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Commissioner of Internal Revenue ⓘ |
| residence |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| workLocation | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
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: Douglas Shulman Description of subject: Douglas Shulman is an American public official who served as the head of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) during the late 2000s and early 2010s.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.