Henry Lehman
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Henry Lehman was a 19th-century German-American businessman who co-founded the financial firm that evolved into the global investment bank Lehman Brothers.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Henry Lehman canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12934752 — 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: Henry Lehman Context triple: [Lehman Brothers, foundedBy, Henry Lehman]
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A.
Mayer Lehman
Mayer Lehman was a 19th-century German-born American banker and co-founder of the Lehman Brothers investment firm, and the patriarch of the prominent Lehman family.
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B.
Arthur Richman
Arthur Richman was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for his stage works that were adapted into successful films during the early 20th century.
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C.
Arthur Sheekman
Arthur Sheekman was an American screenwriter and humorist best known for his work on Marx Brothers films and other Hollywood comedies during the 1930s and 1940s.
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D.
Harry T. Morey
Harry T. Morey was an American silent film actor prominent in the early 20th century, known for his leading roles in numerous dramas and adventure films.
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E.
William Tepper
William Tepper was an American actor and screenwriter best known for his lead role in Jack Nicholson’s 1971 directorial debut film "Drive, He Said."
- 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: Henry Lehman Target entity description: Henry Lehman was a 19th-century German-American businessman who co-founded the financial firm that evolved into the global investment bank Lehman Brothers.
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A.
Mayer Lehman
Mayer Lehman was a 19th-century German-born American banker and co-founder of the Lehman Brothers investment firm, and the patriarch of the prominent Lehman family.
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B.
Arthur Richman
Arthur Richman was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for his stage works that were adapted into successful films during the early 20th century.
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C.
Arthur Sheekman
Arthur Sheekman was an American screenwriter and humorist best known for his work on Marx Brothers films and other Hollywood comedies during the 1930s and 1940s.
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D.
Harry T. Morey
Harry T. Morey was an American silent film actor prominent in the early 20th century, known for his leading roles in numerous dramas and adventure films.
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E.
William Tepper
William Tepper was an American actor and screenwriter best known for his lead role in Jack Nicholson’s 1971 directorial debut film "Drive, He Said."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
German-American
ⓘ
businessman ⓘ person ⓘ |
| birthDate | c. 1822 ⓘ |
| birthName | Hayum Lehmann NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Rimpar, Germany
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rimpar, Kingdom of Bavaria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| businessLocation |
Montgomery, Alabama, United States
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coFounded | Lehman Brothers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
German Confederation
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1855-11-17 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | New Orleans, Louisiana, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | 19th century ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish ⓘ |
| familyName | Lehman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
commerce
ⓘ
cotton trade ⓘ finance ⓘ |
| foundedWith |
Emanuel Lehman
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mayer Lehman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Henry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRole | co-founder of Lehman Brothers ⓘ |
| industry |
financial services
ⓘ
investment banking ⓘ retail trade ⓘ |
| memberOf | Lehman family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| migratedFrom | Kingdom of Bavaria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movedTo | United States of America ⓘ |
| name | Henry Lehman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | German ⓘ |
| notableEvent | Establishment of H. Lehman & Co. in Montgomery, Alabama ⓘ |
| notableFor | Co-founding the firm that became Lehman Brothers investment bank ⓘ |
| notableWork | Founding of Lehman Brothers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessman
ⓘ
merchant ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| residence |
Montgomery, Alabama, United States
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ Rimpar, Kingdom of Bavaria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sibling |
Emanuel Lehman
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mayer Lehman 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: Henry Lehman Description of subject: Henry Lehman was a 19th-century German-American businessman who co-founded the financial firm that evolved into the global investment bank Lehman Brothers.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.