Blake Mycoskie
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Blake Mycoskie is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as the founder of TOMS Shoes and the pioneer of the “One for One” social enterprise model.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Blake Mycoskie canonical | 14 |
| personal anecdotes from Blake Mycoskie | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2395224 — 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: Blake Mycoskie Context triple: [Blake, hasNotableBearer, Blake Mycoskie]
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A.
Kevin Plank
Kevin Plank is an American entrepreneur best known as the founder and longtime CEO of the sportswear company Under Armour.
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B.
Gray Frederickson
Gray Frederickson was an American film producer best known for his work on landmark movies such as The Godfather Part II and Apocalypse Now.
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C.
Mason Wertheimer
Mason Wertheimer is a voice actor best known for voicing the character Wade Ripple in Disney and Pixar’s animated film "Elemental."
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D.
Stephen Moore
Stephen Moore was a British actor best known for voicing Marvin the Paranoid Android in the original radio and television adaptations of "The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy."
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E.
Tony Hsieh
Tony Hsieh was an American entrepreneur and venture capitalist best known for transforming Zappos into a pioneering online retailer celebrated for its customer service–driven culture.
- 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: Blake Mycoskie Target entity description: Blake Mycoskie is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as the founder of TOMS Shoes and the pioneer of the “One for One” social enterprise model.
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A.
Kevin Plank
Kevin Plank is an American entrepreneur best known as the founder and longtime CEO of the sportswear company Under Armour.
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B.
Gray Frederickson
Gray Frederickson was an American film producer best known for his work on landmark movies such as The Godfather Part II and Apocalypse Now.
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C.
Mason Wertheimer
Mason Wertheimer is a voice actor best known for voicing the character Wade Ripple in Disney and Pixar’s animated film "Elemental."
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D.
Stephen Moore
Stephen Moore was a British actor best known for voicing Marvin the Paranoid Android in the original radio and television adaptations of "The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy."
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E.
Tony Hsieh
Tony Hsieh was an American entrepreneur and venture capitalist best known for transforming Zappos into a pioneering online retailer celebrated for its customer service–driven culture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
entrepreneur
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human ⓘ philanthropist ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
CFDA Accessory Designer of the Year (with TOMS)
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linked to:
CFDA Accessory Designer of the Year
People’s Design Award ⓘ Secretary of State’s Award of Corporate Excellence ⓘ |
| businessModel | buy-one-give-one model at TOMS ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1976-08-26 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Southern Methodist University ⓘ |
| employer | TOMS Shoes ⓘ |
| familyName | Mycoskie ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
business
ⓘ
philanthropy ⓘ social entrepreneurship ⓘ |
| founded |
TOMS
ⓘ
linked to:
TOMS Shoes
TOMS Shoes ⓘ |
| genre | business literature ⓘ |
| givenName | Blake ⓘ |
| hasChild |
daughter
ⓘ
son ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | trip to Argentina observing children without shoes ⓘ |
| knownFor |
founding TOMS Shoes
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pioneering the One for One business model ⓘ social entrepreneurship ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Blake Mycoskie ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableIdea | One for One model ⓘ |
| notableWork | Start Something That Matters ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
ⓘ
entrepreneur ⓘ philanthropist ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
The Amazing Race season 2
ⓘ
linked to:
The Amazing Race
|
| philanthropicFocus |
anti-bullying and mental health initiatives
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clean water initiatives ⓘ eye care and eyewear donations ⓘ maternal health programs ⓘ providing shoes to children in need ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Arlington, Texas, United States
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linked to:
Arlington, Texas
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| positionHeld |
Chief Executive Officer of TOMS Shoes
ⓘ
Chief Shoe Giver at TOMS ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| residence |
Austin, Texas, United States
ⓘ
Jackson, Wyoming, United States ⓘ
linked to:
Jackson, Wyoming
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sibling | Paige Mycoskie ⓘ |
| spouse | Heather Lang ⓘ |
| website | https://www.blakemycoskie.com/ ⓘ |
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: Blake Mycoskie Description of subject: Blake Mycoskie is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as the founder of TOMS Shoes and the pioneer of the “One for One” social enterprise model.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.