Cynthia Cooper
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Cynthia Cooper is an American accountant and whistleblower best known for exposing the WorldCom accounting fraud scandal.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cynthia Cooper canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5731617 — 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: Cynthia Cooper Context triple: [Sherron Watkins, coRecipientWith, Cynthia Cooper]
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A.
Teresa Weatherspoon
Teresa Weatherspoon is a Hall of Fame American basketball player and coach best known as an original WNBA star and defensive standout at point guard.
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B.
Antoinette Pettyjohn
Antoinette Pettyjohn is best known as the wife of the late American actor Yaphet Kotto.
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C.
Wendy Harris
Wendy Harris is a character known for being the mother figure in the context of the work in which she appears.
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D.
Valarie Pettiford
Valarie Pettiford is an American actress, singer, and dancer known for her work on stage, television, and film, including roles in productions such as the musical "Fosse" and the TV series "Half & Half."
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E.
LaVonne Griffin-Valade
LaVonne Griffin-Valade is an American public official and former auditor who serves as Oregon’s Secretary of State.
- 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: Cynthia Cooper Target entity description: Cynthia Cooper is an American accountant and whistleblower best known for exposing the WorldCom accounting fraud scandal.
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A.
Teresa Weatherspoon
Teresa Weatherspoon is a Hall of Fame American basketball player and coach best known as an original WNBA star and defensive standout at point guard.
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B.
Antoinette Pettyjohn
Antoinette Pettyjohn is best known as the wife of the late American actor Yaphet Kotto.
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C.
Wendy Harris
Wendy Harris is a character known for being the mother figure in the context of the work in which she appears.
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D.
Valarie Pettiford
Valarie Pettiford is an American actress, singer, and dancer known for her work on stage, television, and film, including roles in productions such as the musical "Fosse" and the TV series "Half & Half."
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E.
LaVonne Griffin-Valade
LaVonne Griffin-Valade is an American public official and former auditor who serves as Oregon’s Secretary of State.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American citizen
ⓘ
accountant ⓘ person ⓘ whistleblower ⓘ |
| associatedWith | WorldCom accounting scandal ⓘ |
| authorOf | Extraordinary Circumstances: The Journey of a Corporate Whistleblower ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Time Person of the Year
ⓘ
Time Person of the Year 2002 (as one of the whistleblowers) ⓘ
linked to:
Time Person of the Year
|
| describedIn | media coverage of corporate whistleblowers ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Mississippi State University
ⓘ
University of Alabama ⓘ |
| employer |
WorldCom
ⓘ
linked to:
WorldCom, Inc.
|
| ethicsFocus |
corporate ethics
ⓘ
financial reporting integrity ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
accounting
ⓘ
corporate governance ⓘ internal auditing ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Cynthia ⓘ |
| hasOccupationSpecialization |
Sarbanes–Oxley compliance
ⓘ
fraud detection ⓘ |
| hasRole | internal audit leader in uncovering WorldCom fraud ⓘ |
| industry |
corporate accounting
ⓘ
telecommunications ⓘ |
| influenced |
corporate whistleblowing practices in the United States
ⓘ
public perception of corporate fraud ⓘ |
| knownFor |
WorldCom whistleblowing
ⓘ
exposing the WorldCom accounting fraud ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | WorldCom internal audit department ⓘ |
| name | Cynthia Cooper ⓘ |
| nationality |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| notableEvent | exposed multi-billion-dollar accounting fraud at WorldCom ⓘ |
| notableWork | Extraordinary Circumstances: The Journey of a Corporate Whistleblower ⓘ |
| occupation |
accountant
ⓘ
author ⓘ corporate executive ⓘ |
| participatedIn | investigation of WorldCom accounting fraud ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| positionHeld | Vice President of Internal Audit at WorldCom ⓘ |
| spokeAt |
corporate governance conferences
ⓘ
ethics and compliance events ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
articles about WorldCom scandal
ⓘ
business ethics case studies ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Clinton, Mississippi
ⓘ
Mississippi ⓘ |
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: Cynthia Cooper Description of subject: Cynthia Cooper is an American accountant and whistleblower best known for exposing the WorldCom accounting fraud scandal.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.