James Comey
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James Comey is an American lawyer and former Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, known for his prominent and often controversial role in U.S. law enforcement and politics.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| James Comey canonical | 7 |
| Comey | 1 |
| James B. Comey | 1 |
| James Brien Comey Jr. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T512503 — 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 Comey Context triple: [University of Virginia School of Law, hasNotableAlumni, James Comey]
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A.
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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B.
James R. Clapper
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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C.
Michael V. Hayden
Michael V. Hayden is a retired four-star U.S. Air Force general who served as director of both the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
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D.
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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E.
Eric Holder
Eric Holder is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 82nd United States Attorney General, becoming the first African American to hold that office.
- 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 Comey Target entity description: James Comey is an American lawyer and former Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, known for his prominent and often controversial role in U.S. law enforcement and politics.
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A.
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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B.
James R. Clapper
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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C.
Michael V. Hayden
Michael V. Hayden is a retired four-star U.S. Air Force general who served as director of both the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
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D.
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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E.
Eric Holder
Eric Holder is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 82nd United States Attorney General, becoming the first African American to hold that office.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| appointedBy | Barack Obama ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1960-12-14 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Yonkers, New York
ⓘ
surface form:
Yonkers, New York, United States
|
| confirmedBy | United States Senate ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| degree |
Bachelor of Science
ⓘ
Juris Doctor ⓘ |
| dismissedBy | Donald Trump ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
College of William & Mary
ⓘ
University of Chicago Law School ⓘ |
| employer |
Columbia Law School
ⓘ
Federal Bureau of Investigation ⓘ United States Department of Justice ⓘ |
| endTime | 2017-05-09 ⓘ |
| familyName |
James Comey
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Comey
|
| fieldOfWork |
criminal justice
ⓘ
law enforcement ⓘ national security ⓘ |
| genre | non-fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| height | approximately 2.03 m ⓘ |
| knownFor |
interactions with President Donald Trump regarding the FBI and Russia investigation
ⓘ
public announcement about reopening the Clinton email investigation in October 2016 ⓘ role in the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server ⓘ testimony before the United States Congress after his dismissal as FBI Director ⓘ |
| memberOf | New York State Bar ⓘ |
| name |
James Comey
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
James Brien Comey Jr.
|
| nominatedBy | Barack Obama ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership
ⓘ
Saving Justice: Truth, Transparency, and Trust ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 6 ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
ⓘ
government official ⓘ lawyer ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| officeContested |
FBI Director
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surface form:
Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
|
| politicalParty |
Independent
ⓘ
Republican Party ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
FBI Director
ⓘ
surface form:
Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Senior Research Scholar at Columbia Law School ⓘ United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York ⓘ United States Deputy Attorney General ⓘ |
| reasonForNotability | former Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| replaced | Robert Mueller ⓘ |
| replacedBy | Christopher A. Wray ⓘ |
| residence |
Virginia
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surface form:
Virginia, United States
|
| spouse | Patrice Failor ⓘ |
| startTime | 2013-09-04 ⓘ |
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: James Comey Description of subject: James Comey is an American lawyer and former Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, known for his prominent and often controversial role in U.S. law enforcement and politics.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
James Brien Comey Jr.
this entity surface form:
Comey
this entity surface form:
James B. Comey