Gary Locke

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Gary Locke is an American politician and diplomat who served as Governor of Washington, U.S. Secretary of Commerce, and U.S. Ambassador to China.

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Label Occurrences
Gary Locke canonical 3

Statements (39)

Predicate Object
instanceOf United States Cabinet member
ambassador
diplomat
governor
human
politician
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
educatedAt Boston University School of Law
Yale University
employer Government of Washington (state)
surface form: State of Washington government

United States government
surface form: United States federal government
ethnicGroup Chinese American
familyName Locke
fieldOfWork international relations
public administration
givenName Gary
languageSpoken Chinese
English
memberOfPoliticalParty Democratic Party
surface form: Democratic Party (United States)
name Gary Locke self-link
notableFor being the first Chinese American U.S. ambassador to China
being the first Chinese American governor in United States history
notableWork economic and trade policy as U.S. Secretary of Commerce
leadership in U.S.-China relations as ambassador
state budget and education reforms as Governor of Washington
occupation diplomat
politician
officeEndTime Governor of Washington term ended 2005
United States Ambassador to China term ended 2014
United States Secretary of Commerce term ended 2011
officeStartTime Governor of Washington term began 1997
United States Ambassador to China term began 2011
United States Secretary of Commerce term began 2009
positionHeld Governor of Washington
King County Executive
United States Ambassador to the People's Republic of China
surface form: United States Ambassador to China

Secretary of Commerce of the United States
surface form: United States Secretary of Commerce
residence Washington State, United States
surface form: Washington state
workLocation Washington State, United States
surface form: Washington state

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: Gary Locke
Description of subject: Gary Locke is an American politician and diplomat who served as Governor of Washington, U.S. Secretary of Commerce, and U.S. Ambassador to China.

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Gary Locke name Gary Locke self-link