Angleton
E154731
Angleton is the surname most notably associated with James Jesus Angleton, the influential and controversial chief of counterintelligence for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency during the Cold War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Angleton canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1335312 — 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: Angleton Context triple: [James Jesus Angleton, familyName, Angleton]
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A.
Goytre
Goytre is a village and community located within the county borough of Neath Port Talbot in South Wales.
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B.
Appia
Appia is a surname most notably associated with Louis Appia, a pioneering Swiss surgeon and co-founder of the International Committee of the Red Cross.
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C.
Bayona
Bayona is a Spanish surname most notably associated with filmmaker J. A. Bayona, known for directing acclaimed films such as "The Orphanage" and "The Impossible."
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D.
Madoc
Madoc is an epic poem by Robert Southey that narrates the legendary voyages and adventures of the Welsh prince Madoc in the New World.
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E.
Vian
Vian is a surname most notably associated with British Royal Navy Admiral Philip Vian, who served with distinction during both World Wars.
- 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: Angleton Target entity description: Angleton is the surname most notably associated with James Jesus Angleton, the influential and controversial chief of counterintelligence for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency during the Cold War.
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A.
Goytre
Goytre is a village and community located within the county borough of Neath Port Talbot in South Wales.
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B.
Appia
Appia is a surname most notably associated with Louis Appia, a pioneering Swiss surgeon and co-founder of the International Committee of the Red Cross.
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C.
Bayona
Bayona is a Spanish surname most notably associated with filmmaker J. A. Bayona, known for directing acclaimed films such as "The Orphanage" and "The Impossible."
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D.
Madoc
Madoc is an epic poem by Robert Southey that narrates the legendary voyages and adventures of the Welsh prince Madoc in the New World.
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E.
Vian
Vian is a surname most notably associated with British Royal Navy Admiral Philip Vian, who served with distinction during both World Wars.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
counterintelligence chief
ⓘ
family name ⓘ human ⓘ intelligence officer ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| activeDuring | Cold War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| describedAs |
controversial
ⓘ
influential ⓘ |
| employer | Central Intelligence Agency ⓘ |
| familyName | Angleton self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
counterintelligence
ⓘ
espionage ⓘ |
| givenName |
James
ⓘ
Jesús ⓘ
surface form:
Jesus
|
| hasCategory |
English-language surnames
ⓘ
surnames of English origin ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | James Jesus Angleton ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | Cold War counterintelligence activities ⓘ |
| partOf |
United States Intelligence Community
ⓘ
surface form:
United States intelligence community
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| positionHeld | Chief of Counterintelligence at the CIA ⓘ |
| usedInCountry |
United Kingdom
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| workLocation |
Langley, Virginia
ⓘ
Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
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: Angleton Description of subject: Angleton is the surname most notably associated with James Jesus Angleton, the influential and controversial chief of counterintelligence for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency during the Cold War.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
James Jesus Angleton