Seymour Durst
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Seymour Durst was a prominent New York City real estate developer and patriarch of the Durst family, known for expanding The Durst Organization into a major Manhattan property empire and for his outspoken political views.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Seymour Durst canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T275658 — 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: Seymour Durst Context triple: [The Durst Organization, keyPerson, Seymour Durst]
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A.
Joseph Durst
Joseph Durst was a prominent New York City real estate developer and patriarch of the Durst family, known for building one of the city’s major real estate empires.
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B.
Jed Harris
Jed Harris was a prominent American theatrical producer and director known for staging influential Broadway productions in the mid-20th century.
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C.
Frank Vincent DuMond
Frank Vincent DuMond was an influential American painter and long-time art instructor known for his landscape and figure painting as well as his impact on generations of students.
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D.
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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E.
Robert Riskin
Robert Riskin was an American screenwriter best known for his collaborations with director Frank Capra on classic films of the 1930s and 1940s.
- 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: Seymour Durst Target entity description: Seymour Durst was a prominent New York City real estate developer and patriarch of the Durst family, known for expanding The Durst Organization into a major Manhattan property empire and for his outspoken political views.
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A.
Joseph Durst
Joseph Durst was a prominent New York City real estate developer and patriarch of the Durst family, known for building one of the city’s major real estate empires.
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B.
Jed Harris
Jed Harris was a prominent American theatrical producer and director known for staging influential Broadway productions in the mid-20th century.
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C.
Frank Vincent DuMond
Frank Vincent DuMond was an influential American painter and long-time art instructor known for his landscape and figure painting as well as his impact on generations of students.
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D.
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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E.
Robert Riskin
Robert Riskin was an American screenwriter best known for his collaborations with director Frank Capra on classic films of the 1930s and 1940s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
New Yorker
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businessperson ⓘ human ⓘ real estate developer ⓘ |
| basedIn | New York City real estate industry ⓘ |
| businessDivision |
commercial real estate
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residential real estate ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| creatorOf | National Debt Clock concept ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1913 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1995 ⓘ |
| employer | The Durst Organization ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Jewish Americans
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surface form:
American Jews
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| familyName | Durst ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
property development
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real estate ⓘ |
| founded | Old York Library ⓘ |
| givenName | Seymour ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Douglas Durst
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Robert Durst ⓘ Thomas Durst ⓘ Wendy Durst Kreeger ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Durst family ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Old York Library collection on New York City history
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anti–national debt activism ⓘ being patriarch of the Durst family ⓘ expanding The Durst Organization’s Manhattan real estate portfolio ⓘ major office and residential developments in Midtown Manhattan ⓘ outspoken political views ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Durst Organization ⓘ |
| occupation |
business executive
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real estate developer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | New York City ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | New York City ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | fiscal conservative ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
head of The Durst Organization
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president of The Durst Organization ⓘ |
| relative |
Douglas Durst
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Joseph Durst ⓘ Robert Durst ⓘ Thomas Durst ⓘ Wendy Durst Kreeger ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Manhattan
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New York City ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Seymour Durst Description of subject: Seymour Durst was a prominent New York City real estate developer and patriarch of the Durst family, known for expanding The Durst Organization into a major Manhattan property empire and for his outspoken political views.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.