David Blitzer
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David Blitzer is an American private equity investor and sports team owner known for his stakes in multiple professional franchises across basketball, hockey, soccer, and other leagues.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Blitzer canonical | 4 |
| David M. Blitzer | 2 |
| David G. Blitzer | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2192037 — 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)
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Target entity: David Blitzer Context triple: [The Process, teamOwnerDuring, David Blitzer]
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A.
Andrew Weisblum
Andrew Weisblum is an American film editor known for his work on major feature films, including collaborations with directors like Darren Aronofsky and Wes Anderson.
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B.
Eric Rosenbaum
Eric Rosenbaum is an inventor and designer known for creating playful, creative technology tools that make it easy for people of all ages to experiment with electronics and interactive media.
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C.
Rich Kleiman
Rich Kleiman is an American sports agent and entrepreneur best known as Kevin Durant’s longtime business partner and co-founder of the sports and entertainment company Boardroom and the investment firm Thirty Five Ventures.
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D.
Jeremy Kleiner
Jeremy Kleiner is an American film producer known for his work on acclaimed films such as the civil rights drama "Selma."
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E.
David Lubin
David Lubin was a Polish-born American merchant, agricultural reformer, and internationalist best known for pioneering global agricultural cooperation and helping lay the groundwork for modern organizations like the FAO.
- 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: David Blitzer Target entity description: David Blitzer is an American private equity investor and sports team owner known for his stakes in multiple professional franchises across basketball, hockey, soccer, and other leagues.
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A.
Andrew Weisblum
Andrew Weisblum is an American film editor known for his work on major feature films, including collaborations with directors like Darren Aronofsky and Wes Anderson.
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B.
Eric Rosenbaum
Eric Rosenbaum is an inventor and designer known for creating playful, creative technology tools that make it easy for people of all ages to experiment with electronics and interactive media.
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C.
Rich Kleiman
Rich Kleiman is an American sports agent and entrepreneur best known as Kevin Durant’s longtime business partner and co-founder of the sports and entertainment company Boardroom and the investment firm Thirty Five Ventures.
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D.
Jeremy Kleiner
Jeremy Kleiner is an American film producer known for his work on acclaimed films such as the civil rights drama "Selma."
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E.
David Lubin
David Lubin was a Polish-born American merchant, agricultural reformer, and internationalist best known for pioneering global agricultural cooperation and helping lay the groundwork for modern organizations like the FAO.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
businessperson
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human ⓘ investor ⓘ sports team owner ⓘ |
| businessPartner | Josh Harris ⓘ |
| coFounderOf | Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| differentFrom |
David M. Blitzer
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linked to:
David Blitzer
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| educatedAt |
University of Pennsylvania
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Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| employer | Blackstone Inc. ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
private equity
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sports management ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| industry |
finance
ⓘ
sports ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment ⓘ |
| notableFor |
multi-club football ownership model
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owning stakes in multiple North American sports franchises ⓘ |
| notableWork | co-founding Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment ⓘ |
| occupation |
private equity investor
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sports executive ⓘ |
| owns |
AD Alcorcón
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Alcorcón ⓘ Augsburg ⓘ Brøndby IF ⓘ
linked to:
Brøndby
Cleveland Guardians minority stake ⓘ Crystal Palace F.C. ⓘ G.D. Estoril Praia ⓘ
linked to:
GD Estoril Praia
New Jersey Devils ⓘ Philadelphia 76ers ⓘ Prudential Center ⓘ Real Salt Lake ⓘ Utah Royals FC ⓘ Waasland-Beveren ⓘ Washington Commanders minority stake ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Global Head of Tactical Opportunities at Blackstone ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| sharesNameWith |
David M. Blitzer
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linked to:
David Blitzer
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| sportsDisciplineOwned |
American football
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association football ⓘ baseball ⓘ basketball ⓘ ice hockey ⓘ |
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: David Blitzer Description of subject: David Blitzer is an American private equity investor and sports team owner known for his stakes in multiple professional franchises across basketball, hockey, soccer, and other leagues.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: David Blitzer
linked to: David Blitzer
linked to: David Blitzer