Jack Welch
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Jack Welch was a prominent American business executive best known for his transformative and often controversial tenure as CEO of General Electric from 1981 to 2001.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jack Welch canonical | 16 |
| Jack Welch's career at General Electric | 1 |
| epithet for Jack Welch | 1 |
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
business executive
ⓘ
chief executive officer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Manager of the Century ⓘ |
| birthName | John Francis Welch Jr. ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | renal failure ⓘ |
| coAuthor | Suzy Welch ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1935-11-19 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2020-03-01 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
ⓘ
University of Massachusetts Amherst ⓘ |
| employer |
General Electric
ⓘ
General Electric ⓘ
surface form:
General Electric Company
General Electric ⓘ
surface form:
General Electric Plastics
|
| endTime | 2001-09-07 ⓘ |
| familyName | Welch ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy | chemical engineering ⓘ |
| givenName | John ⓘ |
| hasChild | 4 children ⓘ |
| industry | conglomerate ⓘ |
| influenced | Jeff Immelt ⓘ |
| knownFor |
aggressive cost-cutting and restructuring
ⓘ
rank-and-yank performance evaluation system ⓘ transforming General Electric into a highly profitable conglomerate ⓘ “fix, sell or close” management philosophy ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Republican Party
ⓘ
surface form:
Republican Party (United States)
|
| nickname | Jack ⓘ |
| notableIdea | shareholder value maximization ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Jack: Straight from the Gut
ⓘ
Winning ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
ⓘ
business executive ⓘ chemical engineer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Peabody, Massachusetts
ⓘ
surface form:
Peabody, Massachusetts, United States
|
| placeOfDeath |
New York City
ⓘ
surface form:
New York City, New York, United States
|
| positionHeld |
Chairman and CEO of General Electric
ⓘ
Chairman of General Electric ⓘ Chief Executive Officer of General Electric ⓘ |
| residence |
Fairfield, Connecticut
ⓘ
surface form:
Fairfield, Connecticut, United States
New York City ⓘ
surface form:
New York City, New York, United States
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse |
Carolyn Osburn
ⓘ
Jane Beasley ⓘ Jane Welch ⓘ Suzy Welch ⓘ |
| startTime | 1981-04-01 ⓘ |
| successor | Jeff Immelt ⓘ |
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: Jack Welch Description of subject: Jack Welch was a prominent American business executive best known for his transformative and often controversial tenure as CEO of General Electric from 1981 to 2001.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Jack Welch's career at General Electric
this entity surface form:
epithet for Jack Welch