C. Douglas Dillon
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C. Douglas Dillon was an American diplomat and politician who served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| C. Douglas Dillon canonical | 4 |
| Douglas Dillon | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10463834 — 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: C. Douglas Dillon Context triple: [Executive Committee of the National Security Council, hasMember, C. Douglas Dillon]
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A.
C. Douglas Dillon Jr.
C. Douglas Dillon Jr. is the son of former U.S. Treasury Secretary and diplomat C. Douglas Dillon, belonging to the prominent Dillon family associated with American finance and public service.
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B.
Eugene R. Black
Eugene R. Black was an American banker and public official best known for serving as chairman of the Federal Reserve during the early years of the Great Depression.
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C.
John M. Woolsey
John M. Woolsey was a U.S. federal judge best known for his landmark 1933 decision lifting the ban on James Joyce’s novel "Ulysses" and reshaping American obscenity law.
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D.
Newton Baker
Newton Baker was an American politician and lawyer best known for serving as U.S. Secretary of War under President Woodrow Wilson during World War I.
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E.
William Simon
William Simon was an American banker and public official who served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury in the 1970s and became a prominent advocate of free-market economics.
- 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: C. Douglas Dillon Target entity description: C. Douglas Dillon was an American diplomat and politician who served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.
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A.
C. Douglas Dillon Jr.
C. Douglas Dillon Jr. is the son of former U.S. Treasury Secretary and diplomat C. Douglas Dillon, belonging to the prominent Dillon family associated with American finance and public service.
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B.
Eugene R. Black
Eugene R. Black was an American banker and public official best known for serving as chairman of the Federal Reserve during the early years of the Great Depression.
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C.
John M. Woolsey
John M. Woolsey was a U.S. federal judge best known for his landmark 1933 decision lifting the ban on James Joyce’s novel "Ulysses" and reshaping American obscenity law.
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D.
Newton Baker
Newton Baker was an American politician and lawyer best known for serving as U.S. Secretary of War under President Woodrow Wilson during World War I.
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E.
William Simon
William Simon was an American banker and public official who served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury in the 1970s and became a prominent advocate of free-market economics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American diplomat
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American politician ⓘ human ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Presidential Medal of Freedom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| boardMemberOf |
Council on Foreign Relations
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Metropolitan Museum of Art NERFINISHED ⓘ Rockefeller Brothers Fund NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Hartsdale, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| chairpersonOf | Metropolitan Museum of Art NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Switzerland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1909-08-21 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2003-01-10 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Groton School
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Harvard University ⓘ
surface form:
Harvard College
Harvard University ⓘ |
| employer | Dillon, Read & Co. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | American people of French descent ⓘ |
| familyName | Dillon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Clarence Dillon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Clarence Douglas Dillon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName |
Clarence
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Douglas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty |
Republican Party
ⓘ
surface form:
Republican Party (United States)
|
| militaryBranch | United States Navy ⓘ |
| notableWork |
implementation of Kennedy tax cut policies
ⓘ
role in Trade Expansion Act of 1962 ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 2 ⓘ |
| occupation |
business executive
ⓘ
diplomat ⓘ investment banker ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| officeEndTime | 1965-04-01 ⓘ |
| officeStartTime | 1961-01-21 ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Geneva NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | New York City ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States Ambassador to France NERFINISHED ⓘ United States Deputy Secretary of State NERFINISHED ⓘ United States Secretary of the Treasury NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Episcopalianism ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| servedUnder |
John F. Kennedy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lyndon B. Johnson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Phyllis Chess Ellsworth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: C. Douglas Dillon Description of subject: C. Douglas Dillon was an American diplomat and politician who served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Douglas Dillon
this entity surface form:
Douglas Dillon