Broderick D. Johnson
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Broderick D. Johnson is an American lawyer, lobbyist, and former White House official who served as a senior adviser to President Barack Obama and chaired the My Brother’s Keeper Task Force.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Broderick D. Johnson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10973850 — 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: Broderick D. Johnson Context triple: [Michele Norris, spouse, Broderick D. Johnson]
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A.
Broderick Johnson
Broderick Johnson is an American film producer and co-founder of Alcon Entertainment, known for backing major Hollywood films such as "The Blind Side," "The Book of Eli," and "Transcendence."
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B.
George H. Eldridge
George H. Eldridge was the disability benefits claimant whose challenge to due process protections in benefit termination proceedings led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Mathews v. Eldridge.
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C.
James A. Johnson
James A. Johnson was the husband of pioneering NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, supporting her career during the civil rights era and the space race.
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D.
William F. Jenkins
William F. Jenkins, better known by his pen name Murray Leinster, was a pioneering American science fiction writer whose prolific career helped shape the genre in the early to mid-20th century.
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E.
Joseph T. Jones
Joseph T. Jones was an American entrepreneur and oilman best known for developing the Gulf Coast region and playing a key role in the early growth of Gulfport, Mississippi.
- 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: Broderick D. Johnson Target entity description: Broderick D. Johnson is an American lawyer, lobbyist, and former White House official who served as a senior adviser to President Barack Obama and chaired the My Brother’s Keeper Task Force.
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A.
Broderick Johnson
Broderick Johnson is an American film producer and co-founder of Alcon Entertainment, known for backing major Hollywood films such as "The Blind Side," "The Book of Eli," and "Transcendence."
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B.
George H. Eldridge
George H. Eldridge was the disability benefits claimant whose challenge to due process protections in benefit termination proceedings led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Mathews v. Eldridge.
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C.
James A. Johnson
James A. Johnson was the husband of pioneering NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, supporting her career during the civil rights era and the space race.
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D.
William F. Jenkins
William F. Jenkins, better known by his pen name Murray Leinster, was a pioneering American science fiction writer whose prolific career helped shape the genre in the early to mid-20th century.
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E.
Joseph T. Jones
Joseph T. Jones was an American entrepreneur and oilman best known for developing the Gulf Coast region and playing a key role in the early growth of Gulfport, Mississippi.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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lawyer ⓘ lobbyist ⓘ political advisor ⓘ |
| boardMemberOf |
Center for American Progress Action Fund
NERFINISHED
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Concerned Black Men NERFINISHED ⓘ National Urban League NERFINISHED ⓘ Project Northstar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
College of the Holy Cross
NERFINISHED
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University of Michigan Law School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
AT&T
NERFINISHED
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BellSouth NERFINISHED ⓘ Bryan Cave LLP NERFINISHED ⓘ Obama 2012 presidential campaign NERFINISHED ⓘ US House of Representatives NERFINISHED ⓘ Verizon NERFINISHED ⓘ White House NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
civil rights policy
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education policy ⓘ public policy ⓘ telecommunications policy ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty |
Democratic Party
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surface form:
Democratic Party (United States)
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| notableFor |
leadership of the My Brother’s Keeper initiative
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service in the Obama administration ⓘ |
| notableWork | My Brother’s Keeper Task Force NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
lawyer
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lobbyist ⓘ political advisor ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Adjunct professor at the Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law
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Adjunct professor at the University of Michigan Law School ⓘ Assistant to the President of the United States ⓘ Cabinet Secretary ⓘ Chair of the My Brother’s Keeper Task Force ⓘ Chief Democratic Counsel, House Committee on Education and the Workforce NERFINISHED ⓘ Democratic Chief Counsel, House Committee on the District of Columbia NERFINISHED ⓘ Senior Advisor to the President ⓘ Staff member, House Committee on the Budget ⓘ |
| residence | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| spouse | Michele Norris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedUnder | Barack Obama 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: Broderick D. Johnson Description of subject: Broderick D. Johnson is an American lawyer, lobbyist, and former White House official who served as a senior adviser to President Barack Obama and chaired the My Brother’s Keeper Task Force.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.