Wintrust Financial Corporation
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Wintrust Financial Corporation is a U.S.-based financial services holding company that operates a network of community banks and related financial businesses, primarily serving the Chicago metropolitan area and surrounding regions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Wintrust Financial Corporation canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6940604 — 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)
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Target entity: Wintrust Financial Corporation Context triple: [Wintrust Arena, namedAfter, Wintrust Financial Corporation]
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A.
First Trust Bank
First Trust Bank is a Northern Ireland-based commercial bank known for providing retail and business banking services and, historically, for issuing its own banknotes.
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B.
Fifth Third Bank
Fifth Third Bank is a major U.S. regional banking corporation offering retail, commercial, and financial services, primarily serving customers across the Midwest and Southeast.
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C.
PNC Financial Services
PNC Financial Services is a major American bank holding company and financial services corporation headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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D.
SunTrust Banks
SunTrust Banks was a major American regional bank holding company based in the southeastern United States that later became part of Truist Financial.
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E.
Regions Financial Corporation
Regions Financial Corporation is a U.S.-based bank holding company that provides retail and commercial banking, wealth management, and related financial services, primarily across the Southern and Midwestern United States.
- 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: Wintrust Financial Corporation Target entity description: Wintrust Financial Corporation is a U.S.-based financial services holding company that operates a network of community banks and related financial businesses, primarily serving the Chicago metropolitan area and surrounding regions.
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A.
First Trust Bank
First Trust Bank is a Northern Ireland-based commercial bank known for providing retail and business banking services and, historically, for issuing its own banknotes.
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B.
Fifth Third Bank
Fifth Third Bank is a major U.S. regional banking corporation offering retail, commercial, and financial services, primarily serving customers across the Midwest and Southeast.
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C.
PNC Financial Services
PNC Financial Services is a major American bank holding company and financial services corporation headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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D.
SunTrust Banks
SunTrust Banks was a major American regional bank holding company based in the southeastern United States that later became part of Truist Financial.
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E.
Regions Financial Corporation
Regions Financial Corporation is a U.S.-based bank holding company that provides retail and commercial banking, wealth management, and related financial services, primarily across the Southern and Midwestern United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
bank holding company
ⓘ
financial services company ⓘ public company ⓘ |
| businessModel |
community banking
ⓘ
multi-bank holding company ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| focusesOn | locally managed community banks ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Edward J. Wehmer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfEmployees | over 5,000 employees (approximate) ⓘ |
| hasServiceType |
asset management
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middle-market banking ⓘ personal banking ⓘ private banking ⓘ small business banking ⓘ |
| hasSubsidiary |
Barrington Bank & Trust Company, N.A.
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
First Insurance Funding NERFINISHED ⓘ Great Lakes Advisors NERFINISHED ⓘ Hinsdale Bank & Trust Company, N.A. NERFINISHED ⓘ Lake Forest Bank & Trust Company, N.A. NERFINISHED ⓘ Libertyville Bank & Trust Company, N.A. NERFINISHED ⓘ Northbrook Bank & Trust Company, N.A. NERFINISHED ⓘ Old Plank Trail Community Bank, N.A. NERFINISHED ⓘ St. Charles Bank & Trust Company, N.A. NERFINISHED ⓘ Town Bank NERFINISHED ⓘ Tricom NERFINISHED ⓘ Wintrust Bank NERFINISHED ⓘ Wintrust Mortgage NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Rosemont, Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inception | 1991 ⓘ |
| industry |
banking
ⓘ
financial services ⓘ |
| legalForm | corporation ⓘ |
| offers |
commercial banking services
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commercial lending ⓘ equipment financing ⓘ insurance premium financing ⓘ mortgage lending ⓘ retail banking services ⓘ treasury management services ⓘ trust services ⓘ wealth management services ⓘ |
| regionServed | Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| regulatoryStatus |
FDIC-insured through its banking subsidiaries
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member of Federal Reserve System through its banking subsidiaries ⓘ |
| serves |
Chicago metropolitan area
NERFINISHED
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northern Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ southern Wisconsin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stockExchange | NASDAQ ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol | WTFC NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Wintrust Financial Corporation Description of subject: Wintrust Financial Corporation is a U.S.-based financial services holding company that operates a network of community banks and related financial businesses, primarily serving the Chicago metropolitan area and surrounding regions.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.