James E. McGreevey
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James E. McGreevey is an American Democratic politician who served as the 52nd governor of New Jersey and resigned in 2004 after publicly acknowledging he was gay and had engaged in an extramarital affair.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| James E. McGreevey canonical | 1 |
| Jim McGreevey | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9615856 — 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 E. McGreevey Context triple: [Richard J. Codey, precededBy, James E. McGreevey]
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A.
Douglas F. Gansler
Douglas F. Gansler is an American lawyer and Democratic politician who served as Maryland's Attorney General and previously as the State’s Attorney for Montgomery County.
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B.
Robert P. Casey
Robert P. Casey was a Democratic governor of Pennsylvania known for his anti-abortion stance and central role in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Planned Parenthood v. Casey.
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C.
Thomas H. Kean
Thomas H. Kean is an American Republican politician and former governor of New Jersey who is best known for chairing the national commission that investigated the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
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D.
Bob Gansler
Bob Gansler is an American soccer coach best known for leading the underdog U.S. national team at the 1990 World Cup and later achieving major success in Major League Soccer.
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E.
Martin O’Malley
Martin O’Malley is an American Democratic politician and former governor of Maryland who ran for his party’s presidential nomination in 2016.
- 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 E. McGreevey Target entity description: James E. McGreevey is an American Democratic politician who served as the 52nd governor of New Jersey and resigned in 2004 after publicly acknowledging he was gay and had engaged in an extramarital affair.
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A.
Douglas F. Gansler
Douglas F. Gansler is an American lawyer and Democratic politician who served as Maryland's Attorney General and previously as the State’s Attorney for Montgomery County.
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B.
Robert P. Casey
Robert P. Casey was a Democratic governor of Pennsylvania known for his anti-abortion stance and central role in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Planned Parenthood v. Casey.
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C.
Thomas H. Kean
Thomas H. Kean is an American Republican politician and former governor of New Jersey who is best known for chairing the national commission that investigated the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
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D.
Bob Gansler
Bob Gansler is an American soccer coach best known for leading the underdog U.S. national team at the 1990 World Cup and later achieving major success in Major League Soccer.
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E.
Martin O’Malley
Martin O’Malley is an American Democratic politician and former governor of Maryland who ran for his party’s presidential nomination in 2016.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
politician ⓘ |
| announcedResignationDate | 2004-08-12 ⓘ |
| authorOf | The Confession NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
USA
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1957-08-06 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Columbia University
ⓘ
Georgetown University Law Center NERFINISHED ⓘ Harvard University Kennedy School of Government NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Irish American ⓘ |
| familyName | McGreevey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
public administration
ⓘ
state politics ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| livesIn | New Jersey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Democratic Party ⓘ |
| middleName | Edward NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
announced extramarital affair with a man in 2004
ⓘ
publicly came out as gay while serving as governor ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the first openly gay governor in U.S. history to come out while in office ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Confession NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 2 ⓘ |
| occupation |
lawyer
ⓘ
politician ⓘ |
| officeEndTime | 2004-11-15 ⓘ |
| officeStartTime | 2002-01-15 ⓘ |
| orderInOffice | 52nd Governor of New Jersey ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Jersey City, New Jersey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Governor of New Jersey
ⓘ
Mayor of Woodbridge Township, New Jersey ⓘ Member of the New Jersey General Assembly ⓘ Member of the New Jersey Senate ⓘ |
| precededBy | Donald DiFrancesco NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reasonForEndOfOffice | resignation ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| residence | New Jersey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| resignationEffectiveDate | 2004-11-15 ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sexualOrientation | gay ⓘ |
| spouse |
Dina Matos
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kari Ann Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ Terry McGreevey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stateRepresented | New Jersey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| succeededBy | Richard Codey 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: James E. McGreevey Description of subject: James E. McGreevey is an American Democratic politician who served as the 52nd governor of New Jersey and resigned in 2004 after publicly acknowledging he was gay and had engaged in an extramarital affair.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Jim McGreevey