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The Shimberg network

A client asked us to look up James H. Shimberg Jr. Anyone can search his name. What a search can't do is resolve every entity he touches and wire it into what we already hold. This is that graph — built from public sources, resolved to canonical entities, and now permanent and queryable.

12
entities resolved & minted
2
linked to entities we already held
7
relationship edges (family / board / philanthropy)
9
UF Law alumni he now shares an edge with

The resolved network

One query traverses all of it. Every edge carries a source URL and a confidence.

graph TD
  classDef new fill:#FBF9F3,stroke:#C24913,stroke-width:1.5px,color:#191817,rx:6,ry:6;
  classDef have fill:#4F6F52,stroke:#3d5540,stroke-width:1.5px,color:#F5F2EA,rx:6,ry:6;
  JR["James H. Shimberg Jr."]:::new
  SR["James H. Shimberg Sr.
1923–2007"]:::new
  KASEY["Kasey Shimberg"]:::have
  UFLAW["UF Levin College of Law"]:::have
  SHUBIN["Shubin Law Group"]:::new
  EUCLID["The Euclid Group"]:::new
  SPP["Strategic Property Partners
Water Street Tampa"]:::new
  TBSE["Tampa Bay Sports & Ent.
NHL Lightning"]:::new
  CITY["City of Tampa"]:::new
  TNC["Town 'N Country"]:::new
  LAM["LaMonte-Shimberg"]:::new
  UCH["University Community Hospital"]:::new
  FND["Hinks & Elaine Shimberg
Foundation"]:::new
  GRAHAM["Bob Graham Center · UF"]:::new
  JR -->|son of| SR
  JR -->|J.D. 1984| UFLAW
  JR -->|partner| SHUBIN
  JR -->|partner| EUCLID
  JR -->|former GC| SPP
  JR -->|former GC| TBSE
  JR -->|City Attorney| CITY
  JR -->|chair| GRAHAM
  JR -.->|relative? · 0.4| KASEY
  SR -->|developed| TNC
  SR -->|principal| LAM
  SR -->|co-developed| UCH
  SR -->|family| FND
newly resolved from this request already in our graph — the link a search never surfaces · · · · dashed = candidate edge, flagged for verification
The compounding. Two of these nodes weren't new — Kasey Shimberg and UF Levin College of Law were already in our graph. A search for "Jim Shimberg" would never tell you we hold a related Shimberg, or that he joins a cohort of nine UF Law alumni we can already query. Every entity we resolve makes every other one more answerable.

The edges, with provenance

This is the difference between prose and a graph: each line is queryable, sourced, and reversible.

FromRelationToConf.Source
Jim Shimberg Jr.son_ofJames H. Shimberg Sr.0.95tampabay.com obit
Jim Shimberg Jr.chairBob Graham Center (UF)0.90bobgrahamcenter.ufl.edu
Jim Shimberg Jr.relative_ofKasey Shimberg (unverified)0.40graph-inferred
Jim Shimberg Sr.founder_ofTown 'N Country0.95tampabay.com obit
Jim Shimberg Sr.founder_ofLaMonte-Shimberg0.90tampabay.com
Jim Shimberg Sr.founder_ofUniversity Community Hospital0.80tampabay.com obit
Jim Shimberg Sr.affiliatedHinks & Elaine Shimberg Foundation0.55local.yahoo / IRS EIN

Plus 5 employment edges (Shubin, Euclid, SPP, Tampa Bay Sports, City of Tampa) and a J.D. education edge — all in person_work_history_v2 / person_education_v2.

A search returns this once, as prose you re-derive every time. Our graph returns it forever, as edges — and every future question about Tampa development, the Lightning, UF Law, or the Shimberg family now traverses it. The facts are a commodity. The resolved links are the product.