Lazard Frères
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Lazard Frères is a prominent international financial advisory and asset management firm known for its role in high-profile mergers, acquisitions, and restructuring deals.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lazard | 2 |
| Lazard Brothers | 1 |
| Lazard Frères canonical | 1 |
| Lazard Frères & Co. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13246212 — 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: Lazard Frères Context triple: [Ian MacGregor, employer, Lazard Frères]
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A.
Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.
Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. is a long-established American private investment bank and financial services firm known for its influential role in U.S. and global finance.
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B.
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. is a leading global private equity firm best known for pioneering large leveraged buyouts and shaping the modern buyout industry.
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C.
Berkshire Partners
Berkshire Partners is a Boston-based private equity firm known for investing in and acquiring middle-market companies across a range of industries.
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D.
Allen & Company
Allen & Company is a private investment bank and financial advisory firm known for its work with media, technology, and entertainment companies, as well as its exclusive annual Sun Valley Conference.
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E.
Cantor Fitzgerald
Cantor Fitzgerald is a New York–based financial services firm and brokerage known for its bond trading operations and for suffering devastating losses in the September 11, 2001 attacks.
- 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: Lazard Frères Target entity description: Lazard Frères is a prominent international financial advisory and asset management firm known for its role in high-profile mergers, acquisitions, and restructuring deals.
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A.
Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.
Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. is a long-established American private investment bank and financial services firm known for its influential role in U.S. and global finance.
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B.
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. is a leading global private equity firm best known for pioneering large leveraged buyouts and shaping the modern buyout industry.
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C.
Berkshire Partners
Berkshire Partners is a Boston-based private equity firm known for investing in and acquiring middle-market companies across a range of industries.
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D.
Allen & Company
Allen & Company is a private investment bank and financial advisory firm known for its work with media, technology, and entertainment companies, as well as its exclusive annual Sun Valley Conference.
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E.
Cantor Fitzgerald
Cantor Fitzgerald is a New York–based financial services firm and brokerage known for its bond trading operations and for suffering devastating losses in the September 11, 2001 attacks.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
asset management firm
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financial advisory firm ⓘ investment bank ⓘ partnership ⓘ |
| affiliation |
Lazard Asset Management
NERFINISHED
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Lazard Frères Gestion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| brandOf | Lazard Ltd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| businessModel |
asset-based management fees
ⓘ
fee-based advisory services ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| field |
capital markets advisory
ⓘ
financial restructuring ⓘ mergers and acquisitions ⓘ restructuring advisory ⓘ sovereign advisory ⓘ strategic advisory ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Alexandre Lazard
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Elie Lazard NERFINISHED ⓘ Simon Lazard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBusinessOperation |
advisory on corporate restructurings
ⓘ
advisory on mergers and acquisitions ⓘ asset management services ⓘ financial advisory to governments ⓘ |
| hasClient |
corporations
ⓘ
financial institutions ⓘ governments ⓘ high-net-worth individuals ⓘ institutional investors ⓘ sovereign entities ⓘ |
| hasOffice |
Paris
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
other major financial centers ⓘ |
| hasSubsidiary | Lazard Frères Gestion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Paris ⓘ |
| industry |
asset management
ⓘ
financial services ⓘ investment banking ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
ⓘ
French ⓘ |
| legalForm | partnership under French law ⓘ |
| notableFor |
high-profile mergers and acquisitions deals
ⓘ
high-profile restructuring mandates ⓘ independent financial advice ⓘ |
| operatesIn |
Asia
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Europe ⓘ Latin America ⓘ North America ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Lazard Group NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Lazard Ltd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reputation | elite advisory-focused investment bank ⓘ |
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: Lazard Frères Description of subject: Lazard Frères is a prominent international financial advisory and asset management firm known for its role in high-profile mergers, acquisitions, and restructuring deals.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Lazard Brothers
this entity surface form:
Lazard
this entity surface form:
Lazard Frères & Co.