Gary Locke
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Gary Locke is an American politician and diplomat who served as Governor of Washington, U.S. Secretary of Commerce, and U.S. Ambassador to China.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gary Locke canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3003002 — 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: Gary Locke Context triple: [Boston University School of Law, hasAlumni, Gary Locke]
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A.
Ted Kulongoski
Ted Kulongoski is an American Democratic politician and attorney who served as the 36th governor of Oregon from 2003 to 2011.
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B.
Slade Gorton
Slade Gorton was an American Republican politician from Washington who served as a U.S. Senator and later as a member of the 9/11 Commission.
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C.
Paul M. Nakasone
Paul M. Nakasone is a United States Army general and prominent intelligence leader who has served as the head of U.S. cyber and signals intelligence operations.
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D.
Joe Juneau
Joe Juneau was a Canadian prospector and miner best known for co-founding and lending his name to Juneau, the capital city of Alaska.
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E.
Brian Whitmer
Brian Whitmer is a technology entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of Instructure, the company behind the Canvas learning management system.
- 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: Gary Locke Target entity description: Gary Locke is an American politician and diplomat who served as Governor of Washington, U.S. Secretary of Commerce, and U.S. Ambassador to China.
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A.
Ted Kulongoski
Ted Kulongoski is an American Democratic politician and attorney who served as the 36th governor of Oregon from 2003 to 2011.
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B.
Slade Gorton
Slade Gorton was an American Republican politician from Washington who served as a U.S. Senator and later as a member of the 9/11 Commission.
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C.
Paul M. Nakasone
Paul M. Nakasone is a United States Army general and prominent intelligence leader who has served as the head of U.S. cyber and signals intelligence operations.
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D.
Joe Juneau
Joe Juneau was a Canadian prospector and miner best known for co-founding and lending his name to Juneau, the capital city of Alaska.
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E.
Brian Whitmer
Brian Whitmer is a technology entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of Instructure, the company behind the Canvas learning management system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Cabinet member
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ambassador ⓘ diplomat ⓘ governor ⓘ human ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Boston University School of Law
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Yale University ⓘ |
| employer |
Government of Washington (state)
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surface form:
State of Washington government
United States government ⓘ
surface form:
United States federal government
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| ethnicGroup | Chinese American ⓘ |
| familyName | Locke ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
international relations
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public administration ⓘ |
| givenName | Gary ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
Chinese
ⓘ
English ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty |
Democratic Party
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surface form:
Democratic Party (United States)
|
| name | Gary Locke self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the first Chinese American U.S. ambassador to China
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being the first Chinese American governor in United States history ⓘ |
| notableWork |
economic and trade policy as U.S. Secretary of Commerce
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leadership in U.S.-China relations as ambassador ⓘ state budget and education reforms as Governor of Washington ⓘ |
| occupation |
diplomat
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politician ⓘ |
| officeEndTime |
Governor of Washington term ended 2005
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United States Ambassador to China term ended 2014 ⓘ United States Secretary of Commerce term ended 2011 ⓘ |
| officeStartTime |
Governor of Washington term began 1997
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United States Ambassador to China term began 2011 ⓘ United States Secretary of Commerce term began 2009 ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Governor of Washington
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King County Executive ⓘ United States Ambassador to the People's Republic of China ⓘ
surface form:
United States Ambassador to China
Secretary of Commerce of the United States ⓘ
surface form:
United States Secretary of Commerce
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| residence |
Washington State, United States
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surface form:
Washington state
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| workLocation |
Washington State, United States
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surface form:
Washington state
|
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: Gary Locke Description of subject: Gary Locke is an American politician and diplomat who served as Governor of Washington, U.S. Secretary of Commerce, and U.S. Ambassador to China.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.