Clarence Dillon
E191220
Clarence Dillon was an influential American investment banker best known for building Dillon, Read & Co. into a major Wall Street firm in the early 20th century.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Clarence Dillon canonical | 11 |
| Clarence Douglas Dillon | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T931431 — 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: Clarence Dillon Context triple: [Dillon, Read & Co., foundedBy, Clarence Dillon]
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A.
Clarence Anglin
Clarence Anglin was one of the three inmates who carried out the famous 1962 escape from Alcatraz prison, inspiring books and films about the still-unsolved case.
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B.
Dwight Merriman
Dwight Merriman is an American entrepreneur and technologist best known as a co-founder of DoubleClick and later MongoDB.
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C.
Ed Barrow
Ed Barrow was a prominent early 20th-century baseball executive and manager best known for building the New York Yankees dynasty and overseeing many of their championship teams.
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D.
Clarence J. Brown Jr.
Clarence J. Brown Jr. was an American Republican politician from Ohio who served for decades in the U.S. House of Representatives, becoming a prominent figure in mid-20th-century national politics.
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E.
Dudley Field Malone
Dudley Field Malone was an American lawyer, politician, and civil liberties advocate best known for his role on the defense team in the 1925 Scopes "Monkey" Trial challenging laws against teaching evolution.
- 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: Clarence Dillon Target entity description: Clarence Dillon was an influential American investment banker best known for building Dillon, Read & Co. into a major Wall Street firm in the early 20th century.
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A.
Clarence Anglin
Clarence Anglin was one of the three inmates who carried out the famous 1962 escape from Alcatraz prison, inspiring books and films about the still-unsolved case.
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B.
Dwight Merriman
Dwight Merriman is an American entrepreneur and technologist best known as a co-founder of DoubleClick and later MongoDB.
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C.
Ed Barrow
Ed Barrow was a prominent early 20th-century baseball executive and manager best known for building the New York Yankees dynasty and overseeing many of their championship teams.
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D.
Clarence J. Brown Jr.
Clarence J. Brown Jr. was an American Republican politician from Ohio who served for decades in the U.S. House of Representatives, becoming a prominent figure in mid-20th-century national politics.
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E.
Dudley Field Malone
Dudley Field Malone was an American lawyer, politician, and civil liberties advocate best known for his role on the defense team in the 1925 Scopes "Monkey" Trial challenging laws against teaching evolution.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
businessperson
ⓘ
human ⓘ investment banker ⓘ |
| birthName | Clarence Lapowski ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
Princeton Cemetery, Princeton, New Jersey, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Princeton Cemetery
|
| causeOfDeath | natural causes ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1882-09-27 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1979-04-14 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard College
ⓘ
linked to:
Harvard University
Harvard University ⓘ |
| employer | Dillon, Read & Co. ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Polish American ⓘ |
| familyName | Dillon ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
corporate finance
ⓘ
securities underwriting ⓘ |
| founded | Dillon, Read & Co. ⓘ |
| givenName | Clarence ⓘ |
| hasChild |
C. Douglas Dillon
ⓘ
linked to:
C. Douglas Dillon Jr.
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| industry |
finance
ⓘ
investment banking ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | American financial elite ⓘ |
| name | Clarence Dillon ⓘ |
| notableFor |
expansion of Dillon, Read & Co.
ⓘ
leadership on Wall Street in the early 20th century ⓘ role in major corporate financings in the early 20th century ⓘ |
| notableWork | building Dillon, Read & Co. into a major Wall Street firm ⓘ |
| occupation |
business executive
ⓘ
investment banker ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | San Antonio, Texas, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
New York City, New York, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
New York City
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| positionHeld | head of Dillon, Read & Co. ⓘ |
| relative |
C. Douglas Dillon
ⓘ
linked to:
C. Douglas Dillon Jr.
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| residence |
New York City, New York, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
New York City
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| significantEvent | transformation of William A. Read & Co. into Dillon, Read & Co. ⓘ |
| workLocation |
New York City, New York, United States
ⓘ
Wall Street ⓘ |
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: Clarence Dillon Description of subject: Clarence Dillon was an influential American investment banker best known for building Dillon, Read & Co. into a major Wall Street firm in the early 20th century.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Clarence Dillon