Paul Castellano
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Paul Castellano was a powerful American mobster who led New York's Gambino crime family until his 1985 assassination.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Paul Castellano canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7818363 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Paul Castellano Context triple: [Carlo Gambino, relative, Paul Castellano]
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A.
Vincent Gigante
Vincent Gigante was a powerful American mob boss, infamous for leading the Genovese crime family and feigning mental illness to evade law enforcement.
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B.
Vito Genovese
Vito Genovese was a powerful Italian-American mob boss who led the Genovese crime family and became one of the most influential figures in organized crime in the mid-20th century United States.
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C.
Carlo Gambino
Carlo Gambino was a powerful Italian-American mobster who led the Gambino crime family and became one of the most influential Mafia bosses in U.S. history.
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D.
Joe Bonanno
Joe Bonanno was a powerful Italian-American Mafia boss who led the Bonanno crime family in New York and became one of the most influential figures in organized crime during the mid-20th century.
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E.
Tommy Lucchese
Tommy Lucchese was a powerful mid-20th-century New York Mafia boss who led the Lucchese crime family and was a key figure in organized crime’s national leadership.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Paul Castellano Target entity description: Paul Castellano was a powerful American mobster who led New York's Gambino crime family until his 1985 assassination.
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A.
Vincent Gigante
Vincent Gigante was a powerful American mob boss, infamous for leading the Genovese crime family and feigning mental illness to evade law enforcement.
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B.
Vito Genovese
Vito Genovese was a powerful Italian-American mob boss who led the Genovese crime family and became one of the most influential figures in organized crime in the mid-20th century United States.
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C.
Carlo Gambino
Carlo Gambino was a powerful Italian-American mobster who led the Gambino crime family and became one of the most influential Mafia bosses in U.S. history.
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D.
Joe Bonanno
Joe Bonanno was a powerful Italian-American Mafia boss who led the Bonanno crime family in New York and became one of the most influential figures in organized crime during the mid-20th century.
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E.
Tommy Lucchese
Tommy Lucchese was a powerful mid-20th-century New York Mafia boss who led the Lucchese crime family and was a key figure in organized crime’s national leadership.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crime boss
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human ⓘ mobster ⓘ |
| alias | Big Paul NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1915-06-26 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | homicide by gunshot ⓘ |
| convictedOf |
conspiracy to commit murder
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racketeering-related offenses ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| criminalCharge |
conspiracy
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extortion ⓘ loan sharking ⓘ racketeering ⓘ |
| criminalOrganization | American Mafia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1985-12-16 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Gambino crime family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Italian American ⓘ |
| familyName | Castellano NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Constantino Paul Castellano NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genreOfActivity |
construction industry racketeering
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labor racketeering ⓘ organized crime ⓘ |
| givenName |
Constantino
NERFINISHED
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Paul ⓘ |
| hasSpouse | Nina Manno Castellano NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
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Italian ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | assassination ⓘ |
| memberOf | Gambino crime family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | American Cosa Nostra NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAssociate |
Aniello Dellacroce
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
John Gotti NERFINISHED ⓘ Thomas Bilotti NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent | 1985 assassination outside Sparks Steak House ⓘ |
| notableWork | leadership of the Gambino crime family ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 3 ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessman
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mobster ⓘ |
| placeOfBurial | Saint John Cemetery, Queens, New York City, New York, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
boss of the Gambino crime family
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head of the Gambino crime family ⓘ |
| relative | Carlo Gambino NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| residence | Todt Hill, Staten Island, New York City, New York, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sibling |
Carmine Castellano
NERFINISHED
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Joseph Castellano NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Paul Castellano Description of subject: Paul Castellano was a powerful American mobster who led New York's Gambino crime family until his 1985 assassination.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.