NYSE:WM
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NYSE:WM was the ticker symbol for Washington Mutual, a former major U.S. savings and loan association that became one of the largest bank failures in American history during the 2008 financial crisis.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| NYSE:WM canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3078438 — 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: NYSE:WM Context triple: [Washington Mutual, tradedAs, NYSE:WM]
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A.
NYSE:MAN
NYSE:MAN is the stock ticker symbol for ManpowerGroup, a global leader in workforce solutions and staffing services.
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B.
WIT (NYSE)
WIT (NYSE) is the New York Stock Exchange ticker symbol for Wipro Limited, a major Indian multinational information technology services and consulting company.
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C.
WSM
WSM is the three-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code assigned to Samoa.
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D.
NASDAQ:ON
NASDAQ:ON is the stock ticker symbol for onsemi, a leading global supplier of power and sensing semiconductor solutions used in automotive, industrial, and other high-performance applications.
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E.
WTC
WTC is a common abbreviation for Johann Sebastian Bach’s influential keyboard collection "The Well-Tempered Clavier."
- 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: NYSE:WM Target entity description: NYSE:WM was the ticker symbol for Washington Mutual, a former major U.S. savings and loan association that became one of the largest bank failures in American history during the 2008 financial crisis.
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A.
NYSE:MAN
NYSE:MAN is the stock ticker symbol for ManpowerGroup, a global leader in workforce solutions and staffing services.
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B.
WIT (NYSE)
WIT (NYSE) is the New York Stock Exchange ticker symbol for Wipro Limited, a major Indian multinational information technology services and consulting company.
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C.
WSM
WSM is the three-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code assigned to Samoa.
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D.
NASDAQ:ON
NASDAQ:ON is the stock ticker symbol for onsemi, a leading global supplier of power and sensing semiconductor solutions used in automotive, industrial, and other high-performance applications.
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E.
WTC
WTC is a common abbreviation for Johann Sebastian Bach’s influential keyboard collection "The Well-Tempered Clavier."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
defunct company
ⓘ
financial services company ⓘ savings and loan association ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | JPMorgan Chase ⓘ |
| acquisitionMethod | purchase of banking operations from FDIC receivership ⓘ |
| cityOfHeadquarters | Seattle ⓘ |
| collapseContext | 2008 global financial crisis ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| delistedFrom | New York Stock Exchange ⓘ |
| delistingReason | seizure by U.S. regulators ⓘ |
| dissolved | 2008 ⓘ |
| formerName |
Washington Mutual
ⓘ
surface form:
Washington Mutual Savings Bank
|
| foundedBy | C. J. Smith ⓘ |
| hadNumberOfEmployees | over 40,000 (approximate, mid-2000s) ⓘ |
| hadReputationFor | customer-friendly retail branches ⓘ |
| hadSubsidiary |
Washington Mutual
ⓘ
surface form:
Washington Mutual Bank
Washington Mutual ⓘ
surface form:
Washington Mutual Bank, F.A.
|
| headquartersLocation |
Seattle, Washington, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Seattle, Washington
|
| inception | 1889 ⓘ |
| industry |
banking
ⓘ
financial services ⓘ mortgage lending ⓘ |
| ISIN | US9393221034 ⓘ |
| legalForm | public company ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Pacific Time Zone ⓘ |
| mainCompetitor |
Bank of America
ⓘ
Wachovia ⓘ Wells Fargo ⓘ |
| notableEvent | largest bank failure in U.S. history at the time ⓘ |
| notableFor |
aggressive expansion in mortgage lending
ⓘ
failure during subprime mortgage crisis ⓘ |
| operated |
home loan centers
ⓘ
retail bank branches ⓘ |
| parentCompanyAfterAcquisition | JPMorgan Chase ⓘ |
| product |
checking accounts
ⓘ
consumer loans ⓘ credit cards ⓘ mortgage loans ⓘ savings accounts ⓘ |
| reasonForDissolution | failure during the 2008 financial crisis ⓘ |
| regulator | Office of Thrift Supervision ⓘ |
| seizedBy | Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ⓘ |
| servedMarket |
mortgage borrowers
ⓘ
retail banking customers ⓘ |
| serviceArea |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| stateOfHeadquarters | Washington ⓘ |
| stockExchange | New York Stock Exchange ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol | NYSE:WM self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| tradedAs | NYSE:WM self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
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: NYSE:WM Description of subject: NYSE:WM was the ticker symbol for Washington Mutual, a former major U.S. savings and loan association that became one of the largest bank failures in American history during the 2008 financial crisis.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Washington Mutual