Rich Barton
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Rich Barton is an American entrepreneur best known for founding influential online companies including Expedia, Zillow, and the workplace review platform Glassdoor.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rich Barton canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1611616 — 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: Rich Barton Context triple: [Glassdoor, foundedBy, Rich Barton]
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A.
Paul Wiggin
Paul Wiggin is a former American football defensive end and coach best known for his long NFL playing career with the Cleveland Browns and subsequent coaching roles at both the professional and college levels.
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B.
Ray Cusick
Ray Cusick was a British designer best known for creating the iconic look of the Daleks in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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C.
Joe Ricketts
Joe Ricketts is an American businessman best known as the founder of the online brokerage firm TD Ameritrade and a prominent member of the billionaire Ricketts family.
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D.
Winston Hibler
Winston Hibler was an American screenwriter, producer, and narrator best known for his long association with Walt Disney Studios, where he contributed to classic animated features and nature documentaries.
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E.
Bucky Harris
Bucky Harris was a Hall of Fame Major League Baseball manager and second baseman best known for leading the Washington Senators to the 1924 World Series championship as their young player-manager.
- 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: Rich Barton Target entity description: Rich Barton is an American entrepreneur best known for founding influential online companies including Expedia, Zillow, and the workplace review platform Glassdoor.
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A.
Paul Wiggin
Paul Wiggin is a former American football defensive end and coach best known for his long NFL playing career with the Cleveland Browns and subsequent coaching roles at both the professional and college levels.
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B.
Ray Cusick
Ray Cusick was a British designer best known for creating the iconic look of the Daleks in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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C.
Joe Ricketts
Joe Ricketts is an American businessman best known as the founder of the online brokerage firm TD Ameritrade and a prominent member of the billionaire Ricketts family.
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D.
Winston Hibler
Winston Hibler was an American screenwriter, producer, and narrator best known for his long association with Walt Disney Studios, where he contributed to classic animated features and nature documentaries.
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E.
Bucky Harris
Bucky Harris was a Hall of Fame Major League Baseball manager and second baseman best known for leading the Washington Senators to the 1924 World Series championship as their young player-manager.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
business executive
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company founder ⓘ entrepreneur ⓘ human ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award (Pacific Northwest)
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linked to:
Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award
|
| boardMemberOf |
Arts Alliance
ⓘ
Netflix ⓘ Zillow Group ⓘ
linked to:
Zillow
|
| coFounded |
Glassdoor
ⓘ
Zillow ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Stanford University ⓘ |
| employer |
Expedia
ⓘ
linked to:
Expedia Group
Microsoft ⓘ Zillow Group ⓘ
linked to:
Zillow
|
| fieldOfWork |
consumer web services
ⓘ
internet business ⓘ online marketplaces ⓘ |
| founded |
Expedia
ⓘ
linked to:
Expedia Group
Glassdoor ⓘ Zillow ⓘ |
| hasFoundedOrganizationType |
employer review website
ⓘ
online real estate marketplace ⓘ online travel agency ⓘ |
| industry |
online employment review industry
ⓘ
online real estate industry ⓘ online travel industry ⓘ technology industry ⓘ |
| knownAs | Richard Barton ⓘ |
| notableFor |
co-founding Glassdoor
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co-founding Zillow ⓘ founding Expedia ⓘ |
| notableWork | building consumer-focused internet brands ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessperson
ⓘ
chief executive officer ⓘ entrepreneur ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
CEO of Expedia
ⓘ
CEO of Zillow Group ⓘ |
| residence |
Seattle, Washington
ⓘ
linked to:
Seattle, Washington, United States
|
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: Rich Barton Description of subject: Rich Barton is an American entrepreneur best known for founding influential online companies including Expedia, Zillow, and the workplace review platform Glassdoor.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.