Gambino crime family
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The Gambino crime family is one of New York City's most powerful and historically influential Italian-American Mafia organizations, notorious for its involvement in organized crime activities such as racketeering, extortion, and murder.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gambino crime family canonical | 6 |
| Mangano crime family | 1 |
| New York Mafia | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5145152 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Gambino crime family Context triple: [Commission (American Mafia), originalMemberFamily, Gambino crime family]
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Luciano crime family
The Luciano crime family, later known as the Genovese crime family, is one of New York City's most powerful and historically influential Italian-American Mafia organizations.
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Bufalino crime family
The Bufalino crime family was a Pennsylvania-based Italian-American Mafia organization known for its influence over labor unions, trucking, and organized crime activities in the mid-20th century United States.
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C.
Bonanno crime family
The Bonanno crime family is one of New York City's historic Five Families, a powerful Italian-American Mafia organization long involved in organized crime activities such as racketeering, gambling, and drug trafficking.
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D.
Shelby crime family
The Shelby crime family is a fictional Birmingham-based gangster clan at the center of the British television series "Peaky Blinders," led by the ambitious and ruthless Thomas Shelby.
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E.
Pettingill crime family
The Pettingill crime family is a notorious Australian criminal clan from Melbourne known for its involvement in drug trafficking, violence, and high-profile confrontations with law enforcement.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gambino crime family Target entity description: The Gambino crime family is one of New York City's most powerful and historically influential Italian-American Mafia organizations, notorious for its involvement in organized crime activities such as racketeering, extortion, and murder.
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A.
Luciano crime family
The Luciano crime family, later known as the Genovese crime family, is one of New York City's most powerful and historically influential Italian-American Mafia organizations.
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B.
Bufalino crime family
The Bufalino crime family was a Pennsylvania-based Italian-American Mafia organization known for its influence over labor unions, trucking, and organized crime activities in the mid-20th century United States.
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C.
Bonanno crime family
The Bonanno crime family is one of New York City's historic Five Families, a powerful Italian-American Mafia organization long involved in organized crime activities such as racketeering, gambling, and drug trafficking.
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D.
Shelby crime family
The Shelby crime family is a fictional Birmingham-based gangster clan at the center of the British television series "Peaky Blinders," led by the ambitious and ruthless Thomas Shelby.
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E.
Pettingill crime family
The Pettingill crime family is a notorious Australian criminal clan from Melbourne known for its involvement in drug trafficking, violence, and high-profile confrontations with law enforcement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | Italian-American Mafia family ⓘ |
| activeIn |
New York City
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New York metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| alliancesWith | Genovese crime family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| criminalActivity |
bid rigging
ⓘ
construction industry corruption ⓘ drug trafficking ⓘ extortion ⓘ fraud ⓘ illegal gambling ⓘ labor racketeering ⓘ loan sharking ⓘ money laundering ⓘ murder ⓘ racketeering ⓘ union corruption ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Italian-American ⓘ |
| hasStructure |
associate
ⓘ
boss ⓘ caporegime ⓘ consigliere ⓘ soldier ⓘ underboss ⓘ |
| knownFor |
high-profile prosecutions in the 1980s
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influence over New York labor unions ⓘ |
| lawEnforcementTarget |
Federal Bureau of Investigation
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States Department of Justice NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| location | New York City ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Carlo Gambino NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableBoss |
Albert Anastasia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Carlo Gambino NERFINISHED ⓘ Domenico Cefalù NERFINISHED ⓘ John Gotti NERFINISHED ⓘ Paul Castellano NERFINISHED ⓘ Peter Gotti NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent | assassination of Paul Castellano in 1985 ⓘ |
| notableMember |
Aniello Dellacroce
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Frank DeCicco NERFINISHED ⓘ Roy DeMeo NERFINISHED ⓘ Sammy Gravano NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originatedAs | D'Aquila crime family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
American Mafia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Five Families NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| rivalOf |
Bonanno crime family
NERFINISHED
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Colombo crime family NERFINISHED ⓘ Lucchese crime family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Gambino crime family Description of subject: The Gambino crime family is one of New York City's most powerful and historically influential Italian-American Mafia organizations, notorious for its involvement in organized crime activities such as racketeering, extortion, and murder.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Mangano crime family
this entity surface form:
New York Mafia