Alan H. Fishman
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Alan H. Fishman is an American banking executive best known for briefly serving as CEO of Washington Mutual during its 2008 financial collapse.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alan H. Fishman canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3078450 — 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: Alan H. Fishman Context triple: [Washington Mutual, keyPerson, Alan H. Fishman]
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A.
Jay O. Rothman
Jay O. Rothman is an American attorney and academic leader who serves as president of the University of Wisconsin System.
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B.
Stephen J. Friedman
Stephen J. Friedman was an American film producer and studio executive known for producing notable Hollywood films from the 1970s through the 1990s.
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C.
Howard Rosenman
Howard Rosenman is an American film producer known for his work on popular Hollywood movies and for helping bring LGBTQ themes into mainstream cinema.
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D.
Ronald M. Cohen
Ronald M. Cohen was an American screenwriter known for his work on politically charged and socially conscious films and television projects.
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E.
David B. Cornstein
David B. Cornstein is an American businessman and Republican political appointee who served as the U.S. Ambassador to Hungary under President Donald Trump.
- 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: Alan H. Fishman Target entity description: Alan H. Fishman is an American banking executive best known for briefly serving as CEO of Washington Mutual during its 2008 financial collapse.
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A.
Jay O. Rothman
Jay O. Rothman is an American attorney and academic leader who serves as president of the University of Wisconsin System.
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B.
Stephen J. Friedman
Stephen J. Friedman was an American film producer and studio executive known for producing notable Hollywood films from the 1970s through the 1990s.
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C.
Howard Rosenman
Howard Rosenman is an American film producer known for his work on popular Hollywood movies and for helping bring LGBTQ themes into mainstream cinema.
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D.
Ronald M. Cohen
Ronald M. Cohen was an American screenwriter known for his work on politically charged and socially conscious films and television projects.
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E.
David B. Cornstein
David B. Cornstein is an American businessman and Republican political appointee who served as the U.S. Ambassador to Hungary under President Donald Trump.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
banker
ⓘ
business executive ⓘ human ⓘ |
| academicDegree |
MBA
ⓘ
bachelor's degree ⓘ |
| boardMemberOf | Meridian Capital Group ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Brown University
ⓘ
Columbia Business School ⓘ |
| employer |
Chemical Bank
ⓘ
First Fidelity Bancorporation ⓘ Independence Community Bank ⓘ
linked to:
Independence Community Bank Corp.
Sovereign Bank ⓘ Washington Mutual ⓘ |
| familyName | Fishman ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
banking
ⓘ
financial services ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Alan ⓘ |
| industry | commercial banking ⓘ |
| notableEvent | appointment as CEO of Washington Mutual shortly before its seizure by U.S. regulators in 2008 ⓘ |
| notableFor | brief tenure as CEO of Washington Mutual in 2008 ⓘ |
| occupation |
banking executive
ⓘ
chief executive officer ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Chief Executive Officer of Independence Community Bank
ⓘ
Chief Executive Officer of Washington Mutual ⓘ President and Chief Operating Officer of First Fidelity Bancorporation ⓘ Vice Chairman of Sovereign Bank ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| startTime | 2008-09 ⓘ |
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: Alan H. Fishman Description of subject: Alan H. Fishman is an American banking executive best known for briefly serving as CEO of Washington Mutual during its 2008 financial collapse.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Alan H. Fishman – Chief Executive Officer (final days)