Ryan Smith
E264234
Ryan Smith is an American entrepreneur and tech billionaire best known as the co-founder of Qualtrics and the principal owner of the NBA’s Utah Jazz.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ryan Smith canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2405652 — 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: Ryan Smith Context triple: [Utah Jazz, owner, Ryan Smith]
-
A.
Ben Smith
Ben Smith is an American ice hockey coach best known for leading the U.S. women’s national team to its first Olympic gold medal in 1998 and for his long, influential career in international women’s hockey.
-
B.
Miles Smith
Miles Smith was an English theologian and bishop best known as one of the principal translators and editors of the King James Version of the Bible.
-
C.
Matt Eversmann
Matt Eversmann is a former U.S. Army Ranger sergeant known for his leadership during the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu, later depicted in the film "Black Hawk Down."
-
D.
Billy Smith
Billy Smith is a Hall of Fame Canadian goaltender best known for backstopping the New York Islanders to four consecutive Stanley Cup championships in the early 1980s.
-
E.
Ryan O’Reilly
Ryan O’Reilly is a Canadian professional ice hockey center renowned for his two-way play, leadership, and Conn Smythe Trophy–winning performance in leading the St. Louis Blues to the 2019 Stanley Cup.
- 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: Ryan Smith Target entity description: Ryan Smith is an American entrepreneur and tech billionaire best known as the co-founder of Qualtrics and the principal owner of the NBA’s Utah Jazz.
-
A.
Ben Smith
Ben Smith is an American ice hockey coach best known for leading the U.S. women’s national team to its first Olympic gold medal in 1998 and for his long, influential career in international women’s hockey.
-
B.
Miles Smith
Miles Smith was an English theologian and bishop best known as one of the principal translators and editors of the King James Version of the Bible.
-
C.
Matt Eversmann
Matt Eversmann is a former U.S. Army Ranger sergeant known for his leadership during the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu, later depicted in the film "Black Hawk Down."
-
D.
Billy Smith
Billy Smith is a Hall of Fame Canadian goaltender best known for backstopping the New York Islanders to four consecutive Stanley Cup championships in the early 1980s.
-
E.
Ryan O’Reilly
Ryan O’Reilly is a Canadian professional ice hockey center renowned for his two-way play, leadership, and Conn Smythe Trophy–winning performance in leading the St. Louis Blues to the 2019 Stanley Cup.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
billionaire
ⓘ
businessperson ⓘ entrepreneur ⓘ human ⓘ technology entrepreneur ⓘ |
| basedIn | Provo, Utah ⓘ |
| businessRegion |
Silicon Slopes, Utah
ⓘ
linked to:
Silicon Slopes technology corridor
|
| coFounded | Qualtrics ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Brigham Young University ⓘ |
| employer | Qualtrics ⓘ |
| familyName | Smith ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
enterprise software
ⓘ
experience management ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Ryan ⓘ |
| hasNetWorthStatus | billionaire ⓘ |
| hasPartnership | Qualtrics–SAP acquisition deal ⓘ |
| industry |
software industry
ⓘ
technology industry ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-founding Qualtrics
ⓘ
principal ownership of the Utah Jazz ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| leagueOwnedTeamIn | National Basketball Association ⓘ |
| listedIn |
Forbes billionaires list
ⓘ
linked to:
World’s Billionaires list
|
| memberOf | ownership group of Real Salt Lake ⓘ |
| name | Ryan Smith ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork | building Qualtrics into a leading experience management platform ⓘ |
| occupation |
business executive
ⓘ
entrepreneur ⓘ investor ⓘ |
| owns |
Real Salt Lake
ⓘ
Utah Jazz ⓘ Utah Royals FC ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
chief executive officer of Qualtrics
ⓘ
principal owner of the Utah Jazz ⓘ |
| religion | Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ⓘ |
| residence | Utah ⓘ |
| sportsDisciplineOwned | basketball ⓘ |
| spouse | Ashley Smith ⓘ |
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: Ryan Smith Description of subject: Ryan Smith is an American entrepreneur and tech billionaire best known as the co-founder of Qualtrics and the principal owner of the NBA’s Utah Jazz.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.