Jack Lew
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Jack Lew is an American public official and attorney who served as the 76th United States Secretary of the Treasury under President Barack Obama.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jack Lew canonical | 6 |
| Jack Lew (as White House Chief of Staff) | 1 |
| Jacob J. Lew | 1 |
| Jacob Joseph Lew | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T352506 — 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: Jack Lew Context triple: [Columbia Law School, notableAlumni, Jack Lew]
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A.
Ron Klain
Ron Klain is an American attorney, political consultant, and longtime Democratic operative who served as White House Chief of Staff under President Joe Biden.
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B.
Jeff Zients
Jeff Zients is an American businessman and political advisor who serves as the White House Chief of Staff under President Joe Biden.
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C.
Don McGahn
Don McGahn is an American lawyer who served as White House Counsel to President Donald Trump and played a key role in shaping the administration’s judicial appointments and legal strategy.
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D.
Randal K. Quarles
Randal K. Quarles is an American lawyer and financial policymaker who served as a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and played a key role in U.S. banking regulation and financial stability oversight.
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E.
William K. Reilly
William K. Reilly is an American environmental leader and former Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency known for his influential role in advancing environmental policy and conservation.
- 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: Jack Lew Target entity description: Jack Lew is an American public official and attorney who served as the 76th United States Secretary of the Treasury under President Barack Obama.
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A.
Ron Klain
Ron Klain is an American attorney, political consultant, and longtime Democratic operative who served as White House Chief of Staff under President Joe Biden.
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B.
Jeff Zients
Jeff Zients is an American businessman and political advisor who serves as the White House Chief of Staff under President Joe Biden.
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C.
Don McGahn
Don McGahn is an American lawyer who served as White House Counsel to President Donald Trump and played a key role in shaping the administration’s judicial appointments and legal strategy.
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D.
Randal K. Quarles
Randal K. Quarles is an American lawyer and financial policymaker who served as a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and played a key role in U.S. banking regulation and financial stability oversight.
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E.
William K. Reilly
William K. Reilly is an American environmental leader and former Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency known for his influential role in advancing environmental policy and conservation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States Secretary of the Treasury
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human ⓘ lawyer ⓘ public official ⓘ |
| appointedBy | Barack Obama ⓘ |
| boardMemberOf | various nonprofit organizations in the United States ⓘ |
| confirmedBy | United States Senate ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Georgetown University
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surface form:
Georgetown University Law Center
Harvard University ⓘ
surface form:
Harvard College
|
| employer |
United States government
ⓘ
surface form:
United States federal government
|
| familyName | Lew ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
economic policy
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law ⓘ public administration ⓘ |
| givenName | Jacob ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Democratic Party ⓘ |
| nickname | Jack ⓘ |
| nominatedBy | Barack Obama as United States Secretary of the Treasury ⓘ |
| notableWork |
role in Obama administration economic policy
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role in negotiating U.S. budget agreements ⓘ |
| occupation |
attorney
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civil servant ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| officeEnd |
Director of the Office of Management and Budget term ended January 19, 2001
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Director of the Office of Management and Budget term ended January 27, 2012 ⓘ United States Secretary of the Treasury term ended January 20, 2017 ⓘ White House Chief of Staff term ended January 25, 2013 ⓘ |
| officeStart |
Director of the Office of Management and Budget term started November 18, 1998
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Director of the Office of Management and Budget term started November 18, 2010 ⓘ United States Secretary of the Treasury term started February 28, 2013 ⓘ White House Chief of Staff term started January 27, 2012 ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
76th United States Secretary of the Treasury
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Director of the Office of Management and Budget ⓘ United States Ambassador to Israel ⓘ White House Chief of Staff ⓘ |
| precededBy |
Franklin Raines as Director of the Office of Management and Budget in 1998
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Peter Orszag as Director of the Office of Management and Budget in 2010 ⓘ Timothy Geithner as United States Secretary of the Treasury ⓘ William Daley as White House Chief of Staff ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| succeededBy |
Denis McDonough as White House Chief of Staff
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Jeffrey Zients as Acting Director of the Office of Management and Budget in 2012 ⓘ Mitchell E. Daniels Jr. as Director of the Office of Management and Budget in 2001 ⓘ Steven Mnuchin as United States Secretary of the Treasury ⓘ |
| workLocation | Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
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: Jack Lew Description of subject: Jack Lew is an American public official and attorney who served as the 76th United States Secretary of the Treasury under President Barack Obama.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Jack Lew (as White House Chief of Staff)
subject surface form:
Jack Lew
this entity surface form:
Jacob Joseph Lew
subject surface form:
Timothy Geithner
this entity surface form:
Jacob J. Lew