Jon Corzine
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Jon Corzine is an American financier and Democratic politician who served as a U.S. Senator from New Jersey and later as the state's governor.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jon Corzine canonical | 3 |
| Corzine | 1 |
| Jon S. Corzine | 1 |
| Sandy Corzine | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4928491 — 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: Jon Corzine Context triple: [Frank Lautenberg, succeededBy, Jon Corzine]
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A.
Dave Corzine
Dave Corzine is a former American professional basketball center best known for his NBA career, particularly with the Chicago Bulls in the 1980s.
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B.
Leo Fuld
Leo Fuld was a Dutch Jewish singer and songwriter renowned for his emotive performances of Yiddish songs and his role in popularizing Jewish music internationally in the mid-20th century.
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C.
Sanford I. Weill
Sanford I. Weill is an American banker and philanthropist best known for building Citigroup into a financial giant and for his major philanthropic contributions to education and medicine.
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D.
Howard Lutnick
Howard Lutnick is an American businessman best known as the longtime chairman and CEO who rebuilt the financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald after the September 11 attacks.
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E.
John E. Zuccotti
John E. Zuccotti was an American real estate executive and public official in New York City, notably serving as deputy mayor and a prominent figure in urban development.
- 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: Jon Corzine Target entity description: Jon Corzine is an American financier and Democratic politician who served as a U.S. Senator from New Jersey and later as the state's governor.
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A.
Dave Corzine
Dave Corzine is a former American professional basketball center best known for his NBA career, particularly with the Chicago Bulls in the 1980s.
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B.
Leo Fuld
Leo Fuld was a Dutch Jewish singer and songwriter renowned for his emotive performances of Yiddish songs and his role in popularizing Jewish music internationally in the mid-20th century.
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C.
Sanford I. Weill
Sanford I. Weill is an American banker and philanthropist best known for building Citigroup into a financial giant and for his major philanthropic contributions to education and medicine.
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D.
Howard Lutnick
Howard Lutnick is an American businessman best known as the longtime chairman and CEO who rebuilt the financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald after the September 11 attacks.
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E.
John E. Zuccotti
John E. Zuccotti was an American real estate executive and public official in New York City, notably serving as deputy mayor and a prominent figure in urban development.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Democratic Party politician
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financier ⓘ human ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| defeatedInElection | 2009 New Jersey gubernatorial election ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Chicago Booth School of Business
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University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign ⓘ |
| electedIn |
2000 United States Senate election in New Jersey
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2005 New Jersey gubernatorial election ⓘ |
| employer |
Goldman Sachs
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MF Global ⓘ |
| familyName |
Corzine
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linked to:
Jon Corzine
|
| fieldOfWork |
finance
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public policy ⓘ |
| givenName | Jon ⓘ |
| hasResidence |
New Jersey
ⓘ
linked to:
New Jersey, United States
New York City ⓘ |
| knownFor |
career at Goldman Sachs
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role in MF Global collapse ⓘ serving as Governor of New Jersey ⓘ serving as U.S. Senator from New Jersey ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Democratic Party ⓘ |
| name | Jon Corzine ⓘ |
| notableEvent | MF Global bankruptcy ⓘ |
| notableWork | Leadership at Goldman Sachs during its transition to a public company ⓘ |
| occupation |
financier
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investment banker ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| officeEndTime |
2006-01-17 (U.S. Senator from New Jersey)
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2010-01-19 (Governor of New Jersey) ⓘ |
| officeStartTime |
2001-01-03 (U.S. Senator from New Jersey)
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2006-01-17 (Governor of New Jersey) ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
New Jersey state government
ⓘ
linked to:
Government of the State of New Jersey
United States Senate ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | liberal ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Chairman and CEO of MF Global
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Chairman and co‑CEO of Goldman Sachs ⓘ Governor of New Jersey ⓘ United States Senator from New Jersey ⓘ
linked to:
United States Senator
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| represented |
New Jersey
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linked to:
New Jersey, United States
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| supportedPolicy |
abortion rights
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gun control measures ⓘ increased state spending on education ⓘ infrastructure investment in New Jersey ⓘ same-sex partnership rights ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Jon Corzine Description of subject: Jon Corzine is an American financier and Democratic politician who served as a U.S. Senator from New Jersey and later as the state's governor.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Jon Corzine
linked to: Jon Corzine
linked to: Jon Corzine