Neil Goldschmidt
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Neil Goldschmidt is an American politician and Democrat who served as U.S. Secretary of Transportation under President Jimmy Carter and later as governor of Oregon.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Neil Goldschmidt canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10118244 — 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: Neil Goldschmidt Context triple: [Brock Adams, succeededByAsSecretaryOfTransportation, Neil Goldschmidt]
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A.
Adam Bohling
Adam Bohling is a British film producer known for his work on high-profile action and genre films, including the Kingsman series.
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B.
Kyle Stevenson
Kyle Stevenson is an individual known for being a member of the band Helmet.
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C.
Ben Lehner
Ben Lehner is a prominent geneticist and systems biologist known for his research on gene regulation, variability, and disease, recognized internationally for his contributions to molecular biology.
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D.
Casey Silver
Casey Silver is an American film producer and former Universal Pictures chairman known for overseeing and producing a range of major Hollywood films.
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E.
Jack Cummings
Jack Cummings was an American film producer best known for his work on classic MGM musicals in the mid-20th century.
- 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: Neil Goldschmidt Target entity description: Neil Goldschmidt is an American politician and Democrat who served as U.S. Secretary of Transportation under President Jimmy Carter and later as governor of Oregon.
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A.
Adam Bohling
Adam Bohling is a British film producer known for his work on high-profile action and genre films, including the Kingsman series.
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B.
Kyle Stevenson
Kyle Stevenson is an individual known for being a member of the band Helmet.
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C.
Ben Lehner
Ben Lehner is a prominent geneticist and systems biologist known for his research on gene regulation, variability, and disease, recognized internationally for his contributions to molecular biology.
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D.
Casey Silver
Casey Silver is an American film producer and former Universal Pictures chairman known for overseeing and producing a range of major Hollywood films.
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E.
Jack Cummings
Jack Cummings was an American film producer best known for his work on classic MGM musicals in the mid-20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American politician
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human ⓘ |
| appointedBy | Jimmy Carter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of California, Berkeley
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University of Oregon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
City of Portland, Oregon
NERFINISHED
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State of Oregon NERFINISHED ⓘ United States Department of Transportation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Goldschmidt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
public administration
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state government ⓘ transportation policy ⓘ urban politics ⓘ |
| givenName | Neil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty |
Democratic Party
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surface form:
Democratic Party (United States)
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| name | Neil Goldschmidt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
serving as Governor of Oregon
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serving as Mayor of Portland, Oregon ⓘ serving as U.S. Secretary of Transportation ⓘ |
| occupation |
lawyer
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politician ⓘ |
| officeContested | Governor of Oregon ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Governor of Oregon
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Mayor of Portland, Oregon ⓘ United States Secretary of Transportation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Oregon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Oregon
NERFINISHED
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Portland, Oregon 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: Neil Goldschmidt Description of subject: Neil Goldschmidt is an American politician and Democrat who served as U.S. Secretary of Transportation under President Jimmy Carter and later as governor of Oregon.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Brock Adams (as U.S. Senator from Washington, 1987)
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succeededByAsSecretaryOfTransportation
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Neil Goldschmidt
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subject surface form:
Brock Adams