Michael Flynn
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Michael Flynn is a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general who briefly served as President Donald Trump’s first national security adviser before resigning amid controversy over his contacts with Russian officials.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Michael Flynn canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7343815 — 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: Michael Flynn Context triple: [Trump presidential transition, announcedWhiteHouseStaff, Michael Flynn]
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A.
Michael D. Flynn
Michael D. Flynn is a prominent architect and key leader at the international architecture firm Pei Cobb Freed & Partners.
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B.
Mark Meadows
Mark Meadows is an American politician and former U.S. Representative who served as a close ally of Donald Trump and played a key role in his administration and post-election efforts.
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C.
John Brennan
John Brennan is an American intelligence official who served as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency under President Barack Obama.
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D.
Rod Rosenstein
Rod Rosenstein is an American lawyer and former U.S. Deputy Attorney General known for overseeing the early stages of the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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E.
Andrew G. McCabe
Andrew G. McCabe is a former FBI official who served as Deputy Director and briefly as Acting Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
- 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: Michael Flynn Target entity description: Michael Flynn is a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general who briefly served as President Donald Trump’s first national security adviser before resigning amid controversy over his contacts with Russian officials.
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A.
Michael D. Flynn
Michael D. Flynn is a prominent architect and key leader at the international architecture firm Pei Cobb Freed & Partners.
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B.
Mark Meadows
Mark Meadows is an American politician and former U.S. Representative who served as a close ally of Donald Trump and played a key role in his administration and post-election efforts.
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C.
John Brennan
John Brennan is an American intelligence official who served as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency under President Barack Obama.
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D.
Rod Rosenstein
Rod Rosenstein is an American lawyer and former U.S. Deputy Attorney General known for overseeing the early stages of the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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E.
Andrew G. McCabe
Andrew G. McCabe is a former FBI official who served as Deputy Director and briefly as Acting Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
former United States National Security Advisor
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human ⓘ retired U.S. Army lieutenant general ⓘ |
| allegiance | United States of America ⓘ |
| appointedBy | Donald Trump NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Michael Thomas Flynn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| charge | making false statements to the FBI ⓘ |
| coAuthor | Michael Ledeen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict |
Iraq War
ⓘ
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) ⓘ
surface form:
War in Afghanistan
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1958-12-24 ⓘ |
| directorOf | Defense Intelligence Agency NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Golden Gate University
NERFINISHED
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Naval Postgraduate School NERFINISHED ⓘ Naval War College NERFINISHED ⓘ United States Army Command and General Staff College NERFINISHED ⓘ University of Rhode Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Defense Intelligence Agency NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| endTime | 2017-02-13 ⓘ |
| endTime as Director of DIA | 2014-08 ⓘ |
| familyName | Flynn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Michael ⓘ |
| hasSibling | Charlie Flynn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Republican Party
ⓘ
surface form:
Republican Party (United States)
|
| militaryBranch | United States Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | Lieutenant general ⓘ |
| notableFor |
controversy over contacts with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak
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role in 2016 Donald Trump presidential campaign ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Field of Fight NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
military officer
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political adviser ⓘ |
| pardonDate | 2020-11-25 ⓘ |
| pardonGrantedBy | Donald Trump NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Middletown, Rhode Island, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| pleadedGuilty | 2017-12 ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | supporter of Donald Trump ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency
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United States National Security Advisor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reasonForEndOfPosition | resignation amid controversy over contacts with Russian officials ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| residence |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| serviceEnd | 2014 ⓘ |
| serviceStart | 1981 ⓘ |
| startTime | 2017-01-20 ⓘ |
| startTime as Director of DIA | 2012-07 ⓘ |
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: Michael Flynn Description of subject: Michael Flynn is a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general who briefly served as President Donald Trump’s first national security adviser before resigning amid controversy over his contacts with Russian officials.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.