Jody Allen
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Jody Allen is an American businesswoman and philanthropist, co-founder of Vulcan Inc. and sister of the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jody Allen canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T143672 — 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: Jody Allen Context triple: [Portland Trail Blazers, owner, Jody Allen]
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A.
Taylor Allen
Taylor Allen is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the political drama film "Chappaquiddick," which explores the 1969 incident involving Senator Ted Kennedy.
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B.
Tracy Nelson
Tracy Nelson is an American actress and author best known for her roles in the television series "Square Pegs" and "Father Dowling Mysteries."
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C.
Margo King
Margo King is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname King.
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D.
Martha Tedeschi
Martha Tedeschi is an American art historian and museum leader known for her scholarship on works on paper and for heading major art institutions.
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E.
Jon Jashni
Jon Jashni is an American film and television producer and media executive known for his work on major studio genre films and for leadership roles at companies like Legendary Entertainment.
- 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: Jody Allen Target entity description: Jody Allen is an American businesswoman and philanthropist, co-founder of Vulcan Inc. and sister of the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.
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A.
Taylor Allen
Taylor Allen is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the political drama film "Chappaquiddick," which explores the 1969 incident involving Senator Ted Kennedy.
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B.
Tracy Nelson
Tracy Nelson is an American actress and author best known for her roles in the television series "Square Pegs" and "Father Dowling Mysteries."
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C.
Margo King
Margo King is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname King.
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D.
Martha Tedeschi
Martha Tedeschi is an American art historian and museum leader known for her scholarship on works on paper and for heading major art institutions.
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E.
Jon Jashni
Jon Jashni is an American film and television producer and media executive known for his work on major studio genre films and for leadership roles at companies like Legendary Entertainment.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American businessperson
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businessperson ⓘ human ⓘ philanthropist ⓘ |
| boardMemberOf | Paul G. Allen Family Foundation ⓘ |
| coFounderOf | Vulcan Inc. ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Vulcan Inc. ⓘ |
| familyName | Allen ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
arts patronage
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investment management ⓘ philanthropy ⓘ sports management ⓘ wildlife conservation ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Jody ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Jody Allen ⓘ |
| notableFor |
leadership of Vulcan Inc.
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managing Paul Allen’s estate ⓘ philanthropic initiatives in the Pacific Northwest ⓘ |
| notableWork | co-founding Vulcan Inc. ⓘ |
| occupation |
businesswoman
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philanthropist ⓘ |
| owns |
Portland Trail Blazers
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Seattle Seahawks ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
chair of Vulcan Inc.
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trustee of the Paul G. Allen Trust ⓘ |
| relative | Paul Allen ⓘ |
| residence |
Seattle, Washington
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linked to:
Seattle, Washington, United States
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| sibling | Paul Allen ⓘ |
| sportsTeamOwnerOf |
Portland Trail Blazers
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Seattle Seahawks ⓘ |
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: Jody Allen Description of subject: Jody Allen is an American businesswoman and philanthropist, co-founder of Vulcan Inc. and sister of the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.