Perot family
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The Perot family is a prominent American business and political dynasty best known for its fortune built in technology and real estate and for Ross Perot’s influential third-party presidential campaigns.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Perot family canonical | 6 |
| Perot family trusts | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2185016 — 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: Perot family Context triple: [Perot Real Estate Ventures, associatedWith, Perot family]
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A.
Porcher family
The Porcher family is a historically prominent family in the Goose Creek area of colonial South Carolina, known for its influence in the region’s social and political life.
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B.
Delano family
The Delano family is a prominent American lineage known for its wealth, influence in New England society, and as the maternal family of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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C.
West family
The West family is a high-profile American celebrity family best known for including rapper and producer Kanye West and media personality Kim Kardashian and their children.
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D.
Bechtel family
The Bechtel family is an American business dynasty best known for founding and controlling Bechtel Corporation, one of the world’s largest engineering and construction companies.
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E.
Volcker family
The Volcker family is an American family best known for including prominent public figures such as economist and former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker and his relatives.
- 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: Perot family Target entity description: The Perot family is a prominent American business and political dynasty best known for its fortune built in technology and real estate and for Ross Perot’s influential third-party presidential campaigns.
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A.
Porcher family
The Porcher family is a historically prominent family in the Goose Creek area of colonial South Carolina, known for its influence in the region’s social and political life.
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B.
Delano family
The Delano family is a prominent American lineage known for its wealth, influence in New England society, and as the maternal family of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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C.
West family
The West family is a high-profile American celebrity family best known for including rapper and producer Kanye West and media personality Kim Kardashian and their children.
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D.
Bechtel family
The Bechtel family is an American business dynasty best known for founding and controlling Bechtel Corporation, one of the world’s largest engineering and construction companies.
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E.
Volcker family
The Volcker family is an American family best known for including prominent public figures such as economist and former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker and his relatives.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American family
ⓘ
business dynasty ⓘ political dynasty ⓘ |
| associatedWithCompany |
Alliance Airport
ⓘ
Dallas Mavericks ⓘ Electronic Data Systems ⓘ Hillwood Development ⓘ
surface form:
Hillwood Development Company
Perot Systems ⓘ The Perot Group ⓘ |
| basedIn | Dallas, Texas ⓘ |
| businessFocus |
logistics and transportation infrastructure
ⓘ
real estate ⓘ technology services ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| economicImpact |
development of AllianceTexas logistics hub
ⓘ
growth of IT outsourcing industry in the United States ⓘ |
| ethnicBackground | European American ⓘ |
| familyPatriarch | Ross Perot ⓘ |
| foundedBusiness |
Electronic Data Systems
ⓘ
Hillwood Development ⓘ
surface form:
Hillwood Development Company
Perot Systems ⓘ |
| hasNamesake | Perot Museum of Nature and Science ⓘ |
| hasNotableMember |
Nancy Perot
ⓘ
surface form:
Carolyn Perot
Katherine Perot ⓘ Nancy Perot ⓘ Ross Perot ⓘ Ross Perot Jr. ⓘ Suzanne Perot ⓘ |
| knownForWealthSource |
government IT contracting
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information technology services ⓘ logistics and industrial parks ⓘ real estate development ⓘ |
| mediaReputation |
Texas business dynasty
ⓘ
influential third-party political force in 1990s ⓘ |
| notableEraOfProminence |
early 21st century
ⓘ
late 20th century ⓘ |
| notableFor |
business activities in real estate
ⓘ
business activities in technology ⓘ political involvement in the United States ⓘ |
| philanthropicActivity |
education philanthropy
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healthcare philanthropy ⓘ museum and cultural donations ⓘ veterans support ⓘ |
| politicalActivity |
campaign financing
ⓘ
third-party presidential campaigns ⓘ |
| politicalOrientation | centrist ⓘ |
| regionOfInfluence |
Texas
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
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: Perot family Description of subject: The Perot family is a prominent American business and political dynasty best known for its fortune built in technology and real estate and for Ross Perot’s influential third-party presidential campaigns.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Perot Real Estate Ventures
subject surface form:
Perot Real Estate Ventures
this entity surface form:
Perot family trusts
subject surface form:
Henry Ross Perot Jr.