Trevor Potter
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Trevor Potter is an American lawyer and former chairman of the Federal Election Commission, best known as a leading expert and advocate for campaign finance reform.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Trevor Potter canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8745541 — 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: Trevor Potter Context triple: [Campaign Legal Center, foundedBy, Trevor Potter]
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A.
Trevor Thornton
Trevor Thornton is an individual associated with Asia, likely as a member or participant in an Asian organization, group, or context.
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B.
Trevor Morris
Trevor Morris is a Canadian composer best known for his work on film, television, and video game scores, including series like "The Tudors" and "Vikings."
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C.
Trevor Penick
Trevor Penick is an American singer and dancer best known as a member of the early-2000s boy band O-Town formed on the reality TV show "Making the Band."
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D.
Trevor Spengler
Trevor Spengler is a teenage member of the new generation of Ghostbusters in the film "Ghostbusters: Afterlife," portrayed by actor Finn Wolfhard.
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E.
Trent Baalke
Trent Baalke is an American football executive best known for his tenure as an NFL general manager, including leading front offices for multiple franchises.
- 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: Trevor Potter Target entity description: Trevor Potter is an American lawyer and former chairman of the Federal Election Commission, best known as a leading expert and advocate for campaign finance reform.
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A.
Trevor Thornton
Trevor Thornton is an individual associated with Asia, likely as a member or participant in an Asian organization, group, or context.
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B.
Trevor Morris
Trevor Morris is a Canadian composer best known for his work on film, television, and video game scores, including series like "The Tudors" and "Vikings."
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C.
Trevor Penick
Trevor Penick is an American singer and dancer best known as a member of the early-2000s boy band O-Town formed on the reality TV show "Making the Band."
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D.
Trevor Spengler
Trevor Spengler is a teenage member of the new generation of Ghostbusters in the film "Ghostbusters: Afterlife," portrayed by actor Finn Wolfhard.
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E.
Trent Baalke
Trent Baalke is an American football executive best known for his tenure as an NFL general manager, including leading front offices for multiple franchises.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American lawyer
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former government official ⓘ human ⓘ |
| advisorTo | John McCain ⓘ |
| advocatesFor |
greater transparency in political spending
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stronger regulation of money in politics ⓘ |
| basedIn |
Washington, D.C. area
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linked to:
Washington metropolitan area
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| boardMemberOf | Campaign Legal Center ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard College
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linked to:
Harvard University
University of Virginia School of Law ⓘ |
| employer |
Campaign Legal Center
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Federal Election Commission ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
campaign finance law
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campaign finance reform ⓘ election law ⓘ |
| founded | Campaign Legal Center ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDegree |
bachelor's degree
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law degree ⓘ |
| hasRole |
legal reform advocate
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public interest lawyer ⓘ |
| hasWorkedIn |
nonprofit sector
ⓘ
private legal practice ⓘ public sector ⓘ |
| knownFor |
appearances discussing campaign finance on television programs
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explaining campaign finance law in U.S. media ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| legalEducationAt | University of Virginia School of Law ⓘ |
| legalSpecialty |
federal election law
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political law ⓘ |
| memberOf | Republican Party ⓘ |
| name | Trevor Potter ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
advocacy for campaign finance reform in the United States
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expertise in campaign finance law ⓘ |
| occupation |
campaign finance reform advocate
ⓘ
election law expert ⓘ lawyer ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Chair of the Federal Election Commission
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Commissioner of the Federal Election Commission ⓘ President of the Campaign Legal Center ⓘ |
| role | general counsel to John McCain's presidential campaigns ⓘ |
| speaksOn |
campaign finance reform
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election integrity ⓘ |
| workedAs | election lawyer for Republican candidates ⓘ |
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: Trevor Potter Description of subject: Trevor Potter is an American lawyer and former chairman of the Federal Election Commission, best known as a leading expert and advocate for campaign finance reform.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.