Jimmy Wales
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Jimmy Wales is an American Internet entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jimmy Wales canonical | 15 |
| Jimmy Donal Wales | 1 |
| Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20335 — 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: Jimmy Wales Context triple: [Yurii Rubinsky Memorial Award, hasNotableRecipient, Jimmy Wales]
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A.
Brewster Kahle
Brewster Kahle is an American computer engineer, internet entrepreneur, and digital librarian best known as the founder of the Internet Archive, a nonprofit dedicated to preserving and providing universal access to knowledge.
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B.
Marc Andreessen
Marc Andreessen is an American entrepreneur, software engineer, and venture capitalist best known as the co-creator of the Mosaic web browser and co-founder of Netscape and the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.
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C.
Mitchell Kapor
Mitchell Kapor is an American entrepreneur and software pioneer best known for founding Lotus Development Corporation and co-creating the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet, as well as for his philanthropy and advocacy in technology and civil liberties.
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D.
Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee is a British computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web.
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E.
Edward Zuckerberg
Edward Zuckerberg is an American dentist and technology enthusiast best known as the father of Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg.
- 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: Jimmy Wales Target entity description: Jimmy Wales is an American Internet entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia.
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A.
Brewster Kahle
Brewster Kahle is an American computer engineer, internet entrepreneur, and digital librarian best known as the founder of the Internet Archive, a nonprofit dedicated to preserving and providing universal access to knowledge.
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B.
Marc Andreessen
Marc Andreessen is an American entrepreneur, software engineer, and venture capitalist best known as the co-creator of the Mosaic web browser and co-founder of Netscape and the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.
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C.
Mitchell Kapor
Mitchell Kapor is an American entrepreneur and software pioneer best known for founding Lotus Development Corporation and co-creating the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet, as well as for his philanthropy and advocacy in technology and civil liberties.
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D.
Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee is a British computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web.
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E.
Edward Zuckerberg
Edward Zuckerberg is an American dentist and technology enthusiast best known as the father of Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Internet entrepreneur
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Wikimedia movement activist ⓘ businessperson ⓘ human ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Gottlieb Duttweiler Prize
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Quadriga award ⓘ Time 100 list of most influential people (2006) ⓘ
linked to:
Time 100 Most Influential People
UNESCO Niels Bohr Medal ⓘ |
| birthName |
Jimmy Donal Wales
ⓘ
linked to:
Jimmy Wales
|
| coFounded |
Fandom
ⓘ
Wikia ⓘ Wikimedia Foundation ⓘ Wikipedia ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1966-08-07 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Auburn University
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University of Alabama ⓘ |
| familyName | Wales ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
free knowledge
ⓘ
online communities ⓘ open content ⓘ |
| founded | Bomis ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName |
Jimmy
ⓘ
linked to:
Jim
|
| hasRole |
Wikipedia co-founder
ⓘ
Wikipedia community figurehead ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://jimmywales.com/ ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-founding Wikimedia Foundation
ⓘ
co-founding Wikipedia ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| movement |
free culture movement
ⓘ
open access movement ⓘ
linked to:
free culture movement
|
| name | Jimmy Wales ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork | Wikipedia ⓘ |
| occupation |
Internet entrepreneur
ⓘ
board member ⓘ business executive ⓘ entrepreneur ⓘ speaker ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Huntsville, Alabama, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Huntsville, Alabama
|
| positionHeld |
Board member of Wikia
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Chair of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees ⓘ Member of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees ⓘ |
| religion | agnosticism ⓘ |
| residence |
London, United Kingdom
ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
|
| spouse | Kate Garvey ⓘ |
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: Jimmy Wales Description of subject: Jimmy Wales is an American Internet entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Jimmy Wales
linked to: Jimmy Wales