Weill
E358191
Weill is the surname of Sanford I. Weill, an American banker and former CEO of Citigroup.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Weill canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3449758 — 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: Weill Context triple: [Sanford I. Weill, familyName, Weill]
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A.
Weil
Weil is a small river in the German state of Hesse that flows through the Taunus region before joining the Lahn.
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B.
Weil
Weil is a surname most notably associated with André Weil, a prominent 20th-century French mathematician and co-founder of the Bourbaki group.
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C.
George Weil
George Weil was a physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project and is noted for being the operator who withdrew the control rod to initiate the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction in Chicago Pile-1.
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D.
Vitae Scherer
Vitae Scherer was a screenwriter best known for co-writing the pioneering early sound gangster film "Lights of New York" (1928).
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E.
Blaustein
Blaustein is a municipality in the Alb-Donau district of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany, situated near the city of Ulm.
- 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: Weill Target entity description: Weill is the surname of Sanford I. Weill, an American banker and former CEO of Citigroup.
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A.
Weil
Weil is a small river in the German state of Hesse that flows through the Taunus region before joining the Lahn.
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B.
Weil
Weil is a surname most notably associated with André Weil, a prominent 20th-century French mathematician and co-founder of the Bourbaki group.
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C.
George Weil
George Weil was a physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project and is noted for being the operator who withdrew the control rod to initiate the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction in Chicago Pile-1.
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D.
Vitae Scherer
Vitae Scherer was a screenwriter best known for co-writing the pioneering early sound gangster film "Lights of New York" (1928).
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E.
Blaustein
Blaustein is a municipality in the Alb-Donau district of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany, situated near the city of Ulm.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family name
ⓘ
surname ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin |
French
ⓘ
German ⓘ Yiddish ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Adrien Weill
ⓘ
Alfred Weill ⓘ Andrew Weill ⓘ Claude Weil ⓘ
surface form:
Claude Weill
David Weill ⓘ Georges Weill ⓘ Gustav Weil ⓘ
surface form:
Gustav Weill
Jean Weill ⓘ Kurt Weill ⓘ Lucien Weill NERFINISHED ⓘ Léon Weill ⓘ Maurice Weill ⓘ Michel Weill NERFINISHED ⓘ Nicolas Weill ⓘ Paul Weill ⓘ Peter Weill ⓘ Raymond Weill ⓘ Roger Weill ⓘ Sanford I. Weill ⓘ Sidney Weill ⓘ Simone Weill ⓘ Stéphane Weill NERFINISHED ⓘ Sylvie Weill ⓘ Thierry Weill ⓘ Yves Weill ⓘ Éric Weill ⓘ |
| isAssociatedWithEthnicGroup | Ashkenazi Jews ⓘ |
| isUsedInCountry |
Canada
ⓘ
France ⓘ Germany ⓘ Israel ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| isVariantOf |
Weil
ⓘ
Weil(l) ⓘ |
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: Weill Description of subject: Weill is the surname of Sanford I. Weill, an American banker and former CEO of Citigroup.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.