Donald P. Hodel
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Donald P. Hodel is an American public official who served in senior roles in the Reagan administration, including as U.S. Secretary of Energy and Secretary of the Interior.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Donald P. Hodel canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7600938 — 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: Donald P. Hodel Context triple: [Manuel Lujan Jr., precededBy, Donald P. Hodel]
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A.
Neil A. Machlis
Neil A. Machlis is a film producer best known for his work on major Hollywood comedies, including the classic road-trip film "Planes, Trains and Automobiles."
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B.
James D. Stern
James D. Stern is an American film producer and director known for backing a range of acclaimed independent and genre films, as well as documentaries.
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C.
Robert M. Weitman
Robert M. Weitman was an American film producer active in mid-20th-century Hollywood, known for overseeing a range of studio features and genre films.
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D.
Donald R. Seawell
Donald R. Seawell was an American attorney, theatrical producer, and arts patron best known for his influential role in developing Denver’s cultural landscape.
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E.
Jerrold R. Zacharias
Jerrold R. Zacharias was an American physicist best known for his work on radar development during World War II and for pioneering the atomic clock.
- 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: Donald P. Hodel Target entity description: Donald P. Hodel is an American public official who served in senior roles in the Reagan administration, including as U.S. Secretary of Energy and Secretary of the Interior.
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A.
Neil A. Machlis
Neil A. Machlis is a film producer best known for his work on major Hollywood comedies, including the classic road-trip film "Planes, Trains and Automobiles."
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B.
James D. Stern
James D. Stern is an American film producer and director known for backing a range of acclaimed independent and genre films, as well as documentaries.
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C.
Robert M. Weitman
Robert M. Weitman was an American film producer active in mid-20th-century Hollywood, known for overseeing a range of studio features and genre films.
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D.
Donald R. Seawell
Donald R. Seawell was an American attorney, theatrical producer, and arts patron best known for his influential role in developing Denver’s cultural landscape.
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E.
Jerrold R. Zacharias
Jerrold R. Zacharias was an American physicist best known for his work on radar development during World War II and for pioneering the atomic clock.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American politician
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United States Cabinet member ⓘ human ⓘ |
| appointedBy | Ronald Reagan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer |
United States government
ⓘ
surface form:
United States federal government
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| familyName | Hodel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
energy policy
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natural resources policy ⓘ public administration ⓘ |
| givenName | Donald NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty |
Republican Party
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surface form:
Republican Party (United States)
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| notableFor | serving in senior roles in the Reagan administration ⓘ |
| notableWork |
leadership of U.S. Department of Energy
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leadership of U.S. Department of the Interior ⓘ |
| occupation |
government administrator
ⓘ
public official ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Under Secretary of the Interior
NERFINISHED
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United States Secretary of Energy NERFINISHED ⓘ United States Secretary of the Interior NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workPeriod | Reagan administration 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: Donald P. Hodel Description of subject: Donald P. Hodel is an American public official who served in senior roles in the Reagan administration, including as U.S. Secretary of Energy and Secretary of the Interior.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.