Iris Weinshall
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Iris Weinshall is an American public official and academic administrator who has served as New York City's transportation commissioner and later as chief operating officer of the New York Public Library.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Iris Weinshall canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2071648 — 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: Iris Weinshall Context triple: [Charles Schumer, spouse, Iris Weinshall]
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A.
Astrid Bergès-Frisbey
Astrid Bergès-Frisbey is a French-Spanish actress and model known for roles in films such as "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides" and "King Arthur: Legend of the Sword."
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B.
Emily Schwartz
Emily Schwartz is one of the children of American journalist and author Tony Schwartz.
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C.
Irene Sharaff
Irene Sharaff was an acclaimed American costume designer known for her influential work in Broadway theatre and Hollywood films, earning multiple Academy Awards for her distinctive visual style.
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D.
Lissy Gerhardt
Lissy Gerhardt is a fictional character known primarily as the daughter of Marine Gunnery Sergeant Mack Gerhardt in the military drama series "Over There."
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E.
Thea Sharrock
Thea Sharrock is a British theatre and film director known for her acclaimed stage productions and for directing the feature film "Me Before You."
- 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: Iris Weinshall Target entity description: Iris Weinshall is an American public official and academic administrator who has served as New York City's transportation commissioner and later as chief operating officer of the New York Public Library.
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A.
Astrid Bergès-Frisbey
Astrid Bergès-Frisbey is a French-Spanish actress and model known for roles in films such as "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides" and "King Arthur: Legend of the Sword."
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B.
Emily Schwartz
Emily Schwartz is one of the children of American journalist and author Tony Schwartz.
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C.
Irene Sharaff
Irene Sharaff was an acclaimed American costume designer known for her influential work in Broadway theatre and Hollywood films, earning multiple Academy Awards for her distinctive visual style.
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D.
Lissy Gerhardt
Lissy Gerhardt is a fictional character known primarily as the daughter of Marine Gunnery Sergeant Mack Gerhardt in the military drama series "Over There."
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E.
Thea Sharrock
Thea Sharrock is a British theatre and film director known for her acclaimed stage productions and for directing the feature film "Me Before You."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
New Yorker
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academic administrator ⓘ human ⓘ public official ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Baruch College
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Brooklyn College ⓘ New York University ⓘ |
| employer |
City University of New York
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New York City Department of Transportation ⓘ New York Public Library ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
library administration
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public administration ⓘ transportation policy ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Democratic Party ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Leadership in New York City transportation policy
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Senior leadership role at New York Public Library ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Executive management of New York Public Library system
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Oversight of New York City transportation infrastructure ⓘ |
| occupation |
civil servant
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public administrator ⓘ university administrator ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Brooklyn ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Chief Operating Officer of the New York Public Library
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Commissioner of the New York City Department of Transportation ⓘ Vice Chancellor of the City University of New York ⓘ |
| relative |
Charles Schumer
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surface form:
Chuck Schumer
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| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| spouse |
Charles Schumer
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surface form:
Chuck Schumer
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| workLocation |
Manhattan
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New York City ⓘ |
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: Iris Weinshall Description of subject: Iris Weinshall is an American public official and academic administrator who has served as New York City's transportation commissioner and later as chief operating officer of the New York Public Library.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.