Ed Scott
E229824
Ed Scott is a technology entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of BEA Systems, a major enterprise software company later acquired by Oracle.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ed Scott canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1033420 — 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: Ed Scott Context triple: [BEA Systems, foundedBy, Ed Scott]
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A.
David Scearce
David Scearce is a Canadian screenwriter best known for adapting Christopher Isherwood’s novel into the acclaimed film "A Single Man."
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B.
Michael Rogers
Michael Rogers is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and the arts, rather than referring to one singular widely recognized figure.
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C.
Tim McClelland
Tim McClelland is a former Major League Baseball umpire known for his long tenure, distinctive strike zone, and involvement in several high-profile postseason games.
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D.
Kevin McClory
Kevin McClory was an Irish screenwriter, producer, and director best known for his long-running legal battles and involvement in the creation and adaptation of the James Bond story "Thunderball."
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E.
Phil Burke
Phil Burke is a Canadian actor best known for his role as Mickey McGinnes on the television drama series "Hell on Wheels."
- 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: Ed Scott Target entity description: Ed Scott is a technology entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of BEA Systems, a major enterprise software company later acquired by Oracle.
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A.
David Scearce
David Scearce is a Canadian screenwriter best known for adapting Christopher Isherwood’s novel into the acclaimed film "A Single Man."
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B.
Michael Rogers
Michael Rogers is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and the arts, rather than referring to one singular widely recognized figure.
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C.
Tim McClelland
Tim McClelland is a former Major League Baseball umpire known for his long tenure, distinctive strike zone, and involvement in several high-profile postseason games.
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D.
Kevin McClory
Kevin McClory was an Irish screenwriter, producer, and director best known for his long-running legal battles and involvement in the creation and adaptation of the James Bond story "Thunderball."
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E.
Phil Burke
Phil Burke is a Canadian actor best known for his role as Mickey McGinnes on the television drama series "Hell on Wheels."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
businessperson
ⓘ
company founder ⓘ enterprise software company ⓘ software company ⓘ software company ⓘ technology entrepreneur ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | Oracle Corporation ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Oracle Corporation ⓘ |
| coFounded | BEA Systems ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| fieldOfWork |
enterprise middleware
ⓘ
software industry ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Ed Scott ⓘ |
| hasNotability | technology entrepreneurship ⓘ |
| hasRole | co-founder of BEA Systems ⓘ |
| industry |
enterprise software
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enterprise software ⓘ enterprise software ⓘ technology ⓘ |
| knownFor | co-founding BEA Systems ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | role in enterprise middleware market through BEA Systems ⓘ |
| notableWork | BEA Systems ⓘ |
| occupation |
entrepreneur
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executive ⓘ |
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: Ed Scott Description of subject: Ed Scott is a technology entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of BEA Systems, a major enterprise software company later acquired by Oracle.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.