David Dinkins

E688703

human mayor politician

David Dinkins was an American politician who served as the first African American mayor of New York City from 1990 to 1993.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
David Dinkins canonical	1
David N. Dinkins	1

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	human ⓘ mayor ⓘ politician ⓘ
almaMater	Brooklyn Law School NERFINISHED ⓘ Howard University NERFINISHED ⓘ
authorOf	A Mayor’s Life: Governing New York’s Gorgeous Mosaic NERFINISHED ⓘ
birthDate	1927-07-10 ⓘ
birthPlace	Trenton, New Jersey NERFINISHED ⓘ
conflict	World War II ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	USA NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
deathDate	2020-11-23 ⓘ
deathPlace	New York City ⓘ
educatedAt	Brooklyn Law School NERFINISHED ⓘ Howard University NERFINISHED ⓘ Trenton Central High School NERFINISHED ⓘ
ethnicGroup	Black Americans ⓘ surface form: African American
familyName	Dinkins NERFINISHED ⓘ
fieldOfWork	public administration ⓘ urban politics ⓘ
givenName	David NERFINISHED ⓘ
honorificPrefix	The Honorable NERFINISHED ⓘ
knownFor	emphasis on racial harmony in New York City ⓘ expansion of community policing in New York City ⓘ support for tennis and the US Open in New York City ⓘ
languageSpoken	English ⓘ
memberOfPoliticalParty	Democratic Party ⓘ
militaryBranch	United States Marine Corps ⓘ
notableFor	first African American mayor of New York City ⓘ
notableWork	A Mayor’s Life: Governing New York’s Gorgeous Mosaic NERFINISHED ⓘ
numberOfChildren	2 ⓘ
occupation	lawyer ⓘ politician ⓘ
officeEndTime	1993-12-31 ⓘ
officeStartTime	1990-01-01 ⓘ
politicalAlignment	liberal ⓘ
positionHeld	Manhattan Borough President NERFINISHED ⓘ Mayor of New York City ⓘ New York State Assembly member ⓘ
precededBy	Ed Koch NERFINISHED ⓘ
religion	Baptist ⓘ
residence	Harlem NERFINISHED ⓘ New York City ⓘ
sexOrGender	male ⓘ
spouse	Joyce Dinkins NERFINISHED ⓘ
succeededBy	Rudy Giuliani NERFINISHED ⓘ
workLocation	New York City Hall 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: David Dinkins
Description of subject: David Dinkins was an American politician who served as the first African American mayor of New York City from 1990 to 1993.

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

New York City mayoral elections → notablePastWinner → David Dinkins ⓘ

David N. Dinkins Municipal Building → namedAfter → David Dinkins ⓘ

this entity surface form: David N. Dinkins