Alan H. Fishman – Chief Executive Officer (final days)
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Alan H. Fishman was the short-tenured final CEO of Washington Mutual, appointed just before the bank’s collapse during the 2008 financial crisis.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alan H. Fishman – Chief Executive Officer (final days) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3078451 — 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: Alan H. Fishman – Chief Executive Officer (final days) Context triple: [Washington Mutual, positionHeld, Alan H. Fishman – Chief Executive Officer (final days)]
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A.
David L. Gitlin – Chief Executive Officer
David L. Gitlin is an American business executive who serves as the chief executive officer of Carrier Global Corporation, a leading provider of heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration solutions.
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B.
Jeffrey Sprecher
Jeffrey Sprecher is an American businessman best known as the founder, chairman, and CEO of Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the global operator of financial and commodity markets and the New York Stock Exchange.
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C.
Ryan Roslansky – Chief Executive Officer
Ryan Roslansky is the Chief Executive Officer of LinkedIn, overseeing the professional networking platform’s global strategy and operations.
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D.
Joel Glazer
Joel Glazer is an American businessman and member of the Glazer family who co-owns and helps oversee the operations of Manchester United Football Club.
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E.
Robert H. Kurnick Jr., President
Robert H. Kurnick Jr. is a senior American business executive best known for his leadership role at Penske Automotive Group, a major international transportation services company.
- 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: Alan H. Fishman – Chief Executive Officer (final days) Target entity description: Alan H. Fishman was the short-tenured final CEO of Washington Mutual, appointed just before the bank’s collapse during the 2008 financial crisis.
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A.
David L. Gitlin – Chief Executive Officer
David L. Gitlin is an American business executive who serves as the chief executive officer of Carrier Global Corporation, a leading provider of heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration solutions.
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B.
Jeffrey Sprecher
Jeffrey Sprecher is an American businessman best known as the founder, chairman, and CEO of Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the global operator of financial and commodity markets and the New York Stock Exchange.
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C.
Ryan Roslansky – Chief Executive Officer
Ryan Roslansky is the Chief Executive Officer of LinkedIn, overseeing the professional networking platform’s global strategy and operations.
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D.
Joel Glazer
Joel Glazer is an American businessman and member of the Glazer family who co-owns and helps oversee the operations of Manchester United Football Club.
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E.
Robert H. Kurnick Jr., President
Robert H. Kurnick Jr. is a senior American business executive best known for his leadership role at Penske Automotive Group, a major international transportation services company.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
business executive
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human ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod |
early 21st century
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late 20th century ⓘ |
| appointedAs |
Chairman of Washington Mutual
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Chief Executive Officer of Washington Mutual ⓘ |
| appointedBy | board of directors of Washington Mutual ⓘ |
| boardMemberOf | various financial institutions ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Brown University
ⓘ
Columbia Business School ⓘ |
| employer |
Independence Community Bank Corp.
ⓘ
Sovereign Bank ⓘ Washington Mutual ⓘ |
| endTime | 2008-09-25 ⓘ |
| familyName | Fishman ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy |
business administration
ⓘ
economics ⓘ |
| fullName | Alan H. Fishman ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Alan ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDegree |
MBA
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bachelor’s degree ⓘ |
| industry | banking ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
2008 financial crisis
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collapse of Washington Mutual in 2008 ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the final CEO of Washington Mutual
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executive roles in U.S. regional banking ⓘ having a very short tenure as CEO of Washington Mutual ⓘ leading Washington Mutual in the days immediately preceding its collapse ⓘ |
| occupation |
banker
ⓘ
chief executive officer ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Chairman of Washington Mutual
ⓘ
Chief Executive Officer of Independence Community Bank Corp. ⓘ Chief Executive Officer of Washington Mutual ⓘ President and Chief Operating Officer of Sovereign Bank ⓘ |
| residence |
New York metropolitan area
ⓘ
surface form:
New York City area
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| startTime | 2008-09-08 ⓘ |
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: Alan H. Fishman – Chief Executive Officer (final days) Description of subject: Alan H. Fishman was the short-tenured final CEO of Washington Mutual, appointed just before the bank’s collapse during the 2008 financial crisis.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.