Felix Rohatyn
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Felix Rohatyn was a prominent American investment banker and diplomat best known for orchestrating New York City’s financial rescue in the 1970s and later serving as U.S. Ambassador to France.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Felix Rohatyn canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5941359 — 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: Felix Rohatyn Context triple: [Hugh L. Carey, cooperatedWith, Felix Rohatyn]
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A.
Douglas Shulman
Douglas Shulman is an American public official who served as the head of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) during the late 2000s and early 2010s.
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B.
ジョー・ローゼンタール
ジョー・ローゼンタールは、第二次世界大戦中の硫黄島で星条旗を掲げる米兵たちを捉えた歴史的な報道写真で知られるアメリカの写真家です。
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C.
Edwin Schlossberg
Edwin Schlossberg is an American designer, artist, and author known for his innovative work in interactive museum and exhibition design.
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D.
Gordon Edelstein
Gordon Edelstein is an American theatre director known for his long tenure leading and shaping the artistic vision of major regional stages, particularly in New Haven.
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E.
Tom Mendelsohn
Tom Mendelsohn is an Australian man known primarily as the brother of acclaimed actor Ben Mendelsohn.
- 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: Felix Rohatyn Target entity description: Felix Rohatyn was a prominent American investment banker and diplomat best known for orchestrating New York City’s financial rescue in the 1970s and later serving as U.S. Ambassador to France.
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A.
Douglas Shulman
Douglas Shulman is an American public official who served as the head of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) during the late 2000s and early 2010s.
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B.
ジョー・ローゼンタール
ジョー・ローゼンタールは、第二次世界大戦中の硫黄島で星条旗を掲げる米兵たちを捉えた歴史的な報道写真で知られるアメリカの写真家です。
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C.
Edwin Schlossberg
Edwin Schlossberg is an American designer, artist, and author known for his innovative work in interactive museum and exhibition design.
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D.
Gordon Edelstein
Gordon Edelstein is an American theatre director known for his long tenure leading and shaping the artistic vision of major regional stages, particularly in New Haven.
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E.
Tom Mendelsohn
Tom Mendelsohn is an Australian man known primarily as the brother of acclaimed actor Ben Mendelsohn.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States ambassador
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diplomat ⓘ human ⓘ investment banker ⓘ |
| appointedBy | Bill Clinton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| authorOf | “Dealings: A Political and Financial Life” NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Commandeur de la Légion d'honneur
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
French Legion of Honour NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| boardMemberOf |
CBS Corporation
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New York Stock Exchange NERFINISHED ⓘ Warner-Lambert Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child | Nicolas Rohatyn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship |
France
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Austria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1928-05-29 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2019-12-14 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
City College of New York
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Middlebury College NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Lazard Frères & Co. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| endTime | 2000-12-06 ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | Jewish ⓘ |
| familyName | Rohatyn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
diplomacy
ⓘ
investment banking ⓘ public finance ⓘ |
| fullName | Felix George Rohatyn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | memoir ⓘ |
| givenName | Felix NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf |
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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Council on Foreign Relations NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
orchestrating the financial rescue of New York City in the 1970s
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serving as United States Ambassador to France ⓘ |
| officeHeldJurisdiction | France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| participatedIn | New York City fiscal crisis of the 1970s NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Vienna, Austria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalAffiliation | Democratic Party (United States) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
United States Ambassador to France
ⓘ
chairman of the Municipal Assistance Corporation for the City of New York ⓘ managing director at Lazard Frères & Co. ⓘ partner at Lazard Frères & Co. ⓘ |
| residence |
New York City
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surface form:
New York City, New York, United States
Paris ⓘ
surface form:
Paris, France
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| roleInEvent | chief architect of New York City’s financial rescue plan ⓘ |
| spouse | Elizabeth Fly Rohatyn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startTime | 1997-09-23 ⓘ |
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: Felix Rohatyn Description of subject: Felix Rohatyn was a prominent American investment banker and diplomat best known for orchestrating New York City’s financial rescue in the 1970s and later serving as U.S. Ambassador to France.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.