James R. Clapper
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James R. Clapper is a retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant general who served as Director of National Intelligence from 2010 to 2017 and held several senior intelligence leadership roles across the U.S. government.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| James R. Clapper canonical | 6 |
| James R. Clapper Jr. | 1 |
| James Robert Clapper Jr. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T482122 — 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: James R. Clapper Context triple: [National Security Medal, awardedTo, James R. Clapper]
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A.
David Petraeus
David Petraeus is a retired four-star U.S. Army general and former CIA Director best known for leading coalition forces during the Iraq War and shaping modern counterinsurgency strategy.
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B.
Don McGahn
Don McGahn is an American lawyer who served as White House Counsel to President Donald Trump and played a key role in shaping the administration’s judicial appointments and legal strategy.
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C.
John F. Kelly
John F. Kelly is a retired U.S. Marine Corps general who served in the Trump administration, including as White House Chief of Staff and Secretary of Homeland Security.
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D.
William Colby
William Colby was an American intelligence officer who became Director of Central Intelligence, overseeing the CIA during a turbulent period in the 1970s.
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E.
John Negroponte
John Negroponte is an American diplomat and government official who has served in numerous high-level roles, including U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and Iraq.
- 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: James R. Clapper Target entity description: James R. Clapper is a retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant general who served as Director of National Intelligence from 2010 to 2017 and held several senior intelligence leadership roles across the U.S. government.
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A.
David Petraeus
David Petraeus is a retired four-star U.S. Army general and former CIA Director best known for leading coalition forces during the Iraq War and shaping modern counterinsurgency strategy.
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B.
Don McGahn
Don McGahn is an American lawyer who served as White House Counsel to President Donald Trump and played a key role in shaping the administration’s judicial appointments and legal strategy.
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C.
John F. Kelly
John F. Kelly is a retired U.S. Marine Corps general who served in the Trump administration, including as White House Chief of Staff and Secretary of Homeland Security.
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D.
William Colby
William Colby was an American intelligence officer who became Director of Central Intelligence, overseeing the CIA during a turbulent period in the 1970s.
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E.
John Negroponte
John Negroponte is an American diplomat and government official who has served in numerous high-level roles, including U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and Iraq.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Air Force general
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human ⓘ intelligence official ⓘ military officer ⓘ |
| allegiance | United States of America ⓘ |
| appointedBy | Barack Obama ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Air Force Distinguished Service Medal
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Defense Distinguished Service Medal ⓘ Legion of Merit ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1941-03-14 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Fort Wayne, Indiana
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surface form:
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States
|
| boardMemberOf | Committee on the National Security Enterprise (various think tanks) ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
National War College
ⓘ
Saint Mary’s University ⓘ
surface form:
St. Mary’s University, Texas
University of Maryland ⓘ
surface form:
University of Maryland, College Park
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| employer |
Office of the Director of National Intelligence
ⓘ
Department of Defense ⓘ
surface form:
United States Department of Defense
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| endTime | 2017 ⓘ |
| familyName | Clapper ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
military intelligence
ⓘ
national security ⓘ |
| fullName |
James R. Clapper
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
James Robert Clapper Jr.
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| genre | memoir ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| hasChild | two children ⓘ |
| memberOf | United States Intelligence Community ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Air Force ⓘ |
| militaryRank | Lieutenant general ⓘ |
| notableFor | serving as the fourth Director of National Intelligence ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Facts and Fears: Hard Truths from a Life in Intelligence
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oversight of U.S. Intelligence Community ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
ⓘ
intelligence officer ⓘ military officer ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Cold War
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Vietnam War ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Director of Defense Intelligence
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Director of National Intelligence ⓘ Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency ⓘ Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency ⓘ Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security ⓘ
surface form:
Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence
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| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| residence |
Virginia
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surface form:
Virginia, United States
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| serviceEnd | 1995 ⓘ |
| serviceStart | 1963 ⓘ |
| signature | James R. Clapper signature image file ⓘ |
| spouse | Susan Terry Clapper ⓘ |
| startTime | 2010 ⓘ |
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: James R. Clapper Description of subject: James R. Clapper is a retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant general who served as Director of National Intelligence from 2010 to 2017 and held several senior intelligence leadership roles across the U.S. government.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
James Robert Clapper Jr.
this entity surface form:
James R. Clapper Jr.