Dorsey
E140617
business executive
family name
financial technology company
human
microblogging service
social networking service
surname
technology entrepreneur
Dorsey is the surname of Jack Dorsey, the American technology entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and former CEO of Twitter.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dorsey canonical | 12 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1232225 — 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: Dorsey Context triple: [Jack Dorsey, familyName, Dorsey]
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A.
Roscoe
"Roscoe" is an essay by Washington Irving, included in his collection *The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.*, that reflects on the life and character of English historian and writer William Roscoe.
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B.
Hayes
Hayes is a suburban district in southeast London, England, known for its residential character and green spaces within the London Borough of Bromley.
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C.
Tucker
Tucker is a surname most notably associated with Albert W. Tucker, a Canadian-American mathematician and game theorist known for his contributions to topology and the formalization of the prisoner's dilemma.
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D.
Earle
Earle is the middle name of Gordon E. Moore, the co-founder of Intel and originator of Moore’s Law.
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E.
McClymonds
McClymonds is a public high school in West Oakland, California, known for its strong athletic tradition and deep roots in the local community.
- 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: Dorsey Target entity description: Dorsey is the surname of Jack Dorsey, the American technology entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and former CEO of Twitter.
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A.
Roscoe
"Roscoe" is an essay by Washington Irving, included in his collection *The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.*, that reflects on the life and character of English historian and writer William Roscoe.
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B.
Hayes
Hayes is a suburban district in southeast London, England, known for its residential character and green spaces within the London Borough of Bromley.
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C.
Tucker
Tucker is a surname most notably associated with Albert W. Tucker, a Canadian-American mathematician and game theorist known for his contributions to topology and the formalization of the prisoner's dilemma.
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D.
Earle
Earle is the middle name of Gordon E. Moore, the co-founder of Intel and originator of Moore’s Law.
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E.
McClymonds
McClymonds is a public high school in West Oakland, California, known for its strong athletic tradition and deep roots in the local community.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
business executive
ⓘ
family name ⓘ financial technology company ⓘ financial technology company ⓘ human ⓘ microblogging service ⓘ social networking service ⓘ surname ⓘ technology entrepreneur ⓘ |
| coFounded |
Block, Inc.
ⓘ
Square, Inc. ⓘ Twitter ⓘ
linked to:
Twitter, Inc.
|
| coFoundedBy |
Jack Dorsey
ⓘ
Jack Dorsey ⓘ Jack Dorsey ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Dorsey ⓘ |
| givenName | Jack ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-founding Block, Inc.
ⓘ
co-founding Twitter ⓘ serving as CEO of Twitter ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| occupation |
CEO
ⓘ
internet entrepreneur ⓘ software developer ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
CEO of Block, Inc.
ⓘ
CEO of Square, Inc. ⓘ CEO of Twitter ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| usedBy | Jack Dorsey ⓘ |
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: Dorsey Description of subject: Dorsey is the surname of Jack Dorsey, the American technology entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and former CEO of Twitter.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.