Bernard Marcus
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Bernard Marcus is an American billionaire businessman and philanthropist best known as a co-founder and former CEO of the home improvement retail giant The Home Depot.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bernard Marcus canonical | 7 |
| Bernie Marcus | 1 |
| Home Depot co-founder Bernard Marcus | 1 |
| Ken Langone | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T704167 — 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: Bernard Marcus Context triple: [The Home Depot, foundedBy, Bernard Marcus]
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A.
Stephen M. Ross
Stephen M. Ross is an American real estate billionaire and philanthropist best known as the principal owner of the NFL’s Miami Dolphins and the developer behind New York’s Hudson Yards.
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B.
Stephen A. Schwarzman
Stephen A. Schwarzman is an American billionaire businessman, co-founder and CEO of the private equity firm Blackstone, and a prominent philanthropist in education and the arts.
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C.
Sanford I. Weill
Sanford I. Weill is an American banker and philanthropist best known for building Citigroup into a financial giant and for his major philanthropic contributions to education and medicine.
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D.
Charles F. Dolan
Charles F. Dolan is an American cable television pioneer and media executive best known as the founder of HBO and Cablevision.
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E.
Laurence Tisch
Laurence Tisch was an American businessman and investor best known as the co-owner of Loews Corporation and former CEO of CBS.
- 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: Bernard Marcus Target entity description: Bernard Marcus is an American billionaire businessman and philanthropist best known as a co-founder and former CEO of the home improvement retail giant The Home Depot.
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A.
Stephen M. Ross
Stephen M. Ross is an American real estate billionaire and philanthropist best known as the principal owner of the NFL’s Miami Dolphins and the developer behind New York’s Hudson Yards.
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B.
Stephen A. Schwarzman
Stephen A. Schwarzman is an American billionaire businessman, co-founder and CEO of the private equity firm Blackstone, and a prominent philanthropist in education and the arts.
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C.
Sanford I. Weill
Sanford I. Weill is an American banker and philanthropist best known for building Citigroup into a financial giant and for his major philanthropic contributions to education and medicine.
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D.
Charles F. Dolan
Charles F. Dolan is an American cable television pioneer and media executive best known as the founder of HBO and Cablevision.
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E.
Laurence Tisch
Laurence Tisch was an American businessman and investor best known as the co-owner of Loews Corporation and former CEO of CBS.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
billionaire
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businessperson ⓘ human ⓘ philanthropist ⓘ |
| coFounded | The Home Depot ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Rutgers University
ⓘ
Rutgers University ⓘ
surface form:
Rutgers University–Newark
|
| employer | The Home Depot ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish Americans ⓘ |
| familyName | Marcus ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
entrepreneurship
ⓘ
retail management ⓘ |
| founded | Marcus Foundation ⓘ |
| givenName | Bernard ⓘ |
| hasBusinessPartner |
Arthur Blank
ⓘ
Bernard Marcus self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Ken Langone
Pat Farrah ⓘ |
| industry | home improvement retail ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-founding The Home Depot
ⓘ
serving as CEO of The Home Depot ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Republican Party
ⓘ
surface form:
Republican Party (United States)
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| name | Bernard Marcus self-link ⓘ |
| netWorthStatus | billionaire ⓘ |
| notableDonationRecipient |
Georgia Aquarium
ⓘ
Shepherd Center (Atlanta) ⓘ |
| notableFor |
philanthropic donations to Jewish causes
ⓘ
philanthropic donations to medical research ⓘ philanthropic donations to veterans’ organizations ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Home Depot ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessperson
ⓘ
chief executive officer ⓘ philanthropist ⓘ |
| philanthropicFocus |
education
ⓘ
healthcare ⓘ support for Israel ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Newark, New Jersey, United States ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Chairman of The Home Depot
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Chief Executive Officer of The Home Depot ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| residence |
Atlanta
ⓘ
surface form:
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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| roleInOrganization | major donor to Georgia Aquarium ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| supportedPoliticalParty |
Republican Party
ⓘ
surface form:
Republican Party (United States)
|
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: Bernard Marcus Description of subject: Bernard Marcus is an American billionaire businessman and philanthropist best known as a co-founder and former CEO of the home improvement retail giant The Home Depot.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Bernie Marcus
this entity surface form:
Ken Langone
this entity surface form:
Home Depot co-founder Bernard Marcus