Cyrus Vance
E430886
Cyrus Vance was an American lawyer and diplomat who served as U.S. Secretary of State under President Jimmy Carter.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cyrus Vance canonical | 4 |
| Cyrus Vance as Secretary of State | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4305570 — 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: Cyrus Vance Context triple: [Cyrus R. Vance Jr., father, Cyrus Vance]
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A.
Cyrus R. Vance Jr.
Cyrus R. Vance Jr. is an American lawyer and former Manhattan District Attorney known for overseeing high-profile criminal investigations, including cases involving former President Donald Trump.
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B.
Warren Christopher
Warren Christopher was an American lawyer, diplomat, and politician who served as the 63rd U.S. Secretary of State under President Bill Clinton.
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C.
Dennis Ross
Dennis Ross is an American diplomat and Middle East peace negotiator who played a key role in U.S. efforts to broker Arab-Israeli agreements in the 1990s and early 2000s.
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D.
Francis Deng
Francis Deng is a Sudanese diplomat, scholar, and author known for serving as the first UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide and for his extensive work on conflict resolution and internal displacement.
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E.
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar was a Peruvian diplomat who served as the fifth Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1982 to 1991.
- 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: Cyrus Vance Target entity description: Cyrus Vance was an American lawyer and diplomat who served as U.S. Secretary of State under President Jimmy Carter.
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A.
Cyrus R. Vance Jr.
Cyrus R. Vance Jr. is an American lawyer and former Manhattan District Attorney known for overseeing high-profile criminal investigations, including cases involving former President Donald Trump.
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B.
Warren Christopher
Warren Christopher was an American lawyer, diplomat, and politician who served as the 63rd U.S. Secretary of State under President Bill Clinton.
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C.
Dennis Ross
Dennis Ross is an American diplomat and Middle East peace negotiator who played a key role in U.S. efforts to broker Arab-Israeli agreements in the 1990s and early 2000s.
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D.
Francis Deng
Francis Deng is a Sudanese diplomat, scholar, and author known for serving as the first UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide and for his extensive work on conflict resolution and internal displacement.
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E.
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar was a Peruvian diplomat who served as the fifth Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1982 to 1991.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Cyrus Vance Description of subject: Cyrus Vance was an American lawyer and diplomat who served as U.S. Secretary of State under President Jimmy Carter.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Cyrus Vance