Drew
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Drew is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and CEO of the cloud storage company Dropbox.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Drew canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2716674 — 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: Drew Context triple: [Drew Houston, nickname, Drew]
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A.
Dustin
Dustin is a masculine given name commonly used in English-speaking countries.
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B.
Drew Hansen
Drew Hansen is an American lawyer, author, and Democratic politician who has served in the Washington State Legislature.
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C.
Dylan Clark
Dylan Clark is a film producer known for his work on major Hollywood projects including "The Mountain Between Us" and the "Planet of the Apes" reboot series.
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D.
Drew Baylor
Drew Baylor is the fictional protagonist of the romantic comedy-drama film "Elizabethtown," a young shoe designer coping with personal and professional failure who finds new purpose through an unexpected relationship.
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E.
Dylan Highsmith
Dylan Highsmith is a film editor best known for his work on major action and science-fiction movies, including Pacific Rim: Uprising.
- 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: Drew Target entity description: Drew is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and CEO of the cloud storage company Dropbox.
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A.
Dustin
Dustin is a masculine given name commonly used in English-speaking countries.
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B.
Drew Hansen
Drew Hansen is an American lawyer, author, and Democratic politician who has served in the Washington State Legislature.
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C.
Dylan Clark
Dylan Clark is a film producer known for his work on major Hollywood projects including "The Mountain Between Us" and the "Planet of the Apes" reboot series.
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D.
Drew Baylor
Drew Baylor is the fictional protagonist of the romantic comedy-drama film "Elizabethtown," a young shoe designer coping with personal and professional failure who finds new purpose through an unexpected relationship.
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E.
Dylan Highsmith
Dylan Highsmith is a film editor best known for his work on major action and science-fiction movies, including Pacific Rim: Uprising.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
business executive
ⓘ
entrepreneur ⓘ human ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Fortune 40 Under 40
ⓘ
linked to:
Fortune 40 Under 40 list
Inc. Magazine 30 Under 30 ⓘ MIT Technology Review TR35 ⓘ |
| basedIn |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
United States of America ⓘ |
| boardMemberOf | Facebook ⓘ |
| businessSector |
cloud storage
ⓘ
file hosting services ⓘ |
| coFounded | Dropbox ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ |
| employer | Dropbox ⓘ |
| familyName | Houston ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy | computer science ⓘ |
| givenName | Andrew ⓘ |
| hasEmployerRole |
CEO
ⓘ
co-founder ⓘ |
| industry |
cloud computing
ⓘ
technology industry ⓘ |
| knownFor | co-founding Dropbox ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Phi Delta Theta
ⓘ
linked to:
Phi Delta Theta fraternity
|
| nickname | Drew ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
led Dropbox initial public offering
ⓘ
scaled Dropbox to hundreds of millions of users ⓘ |
| notableWork | Dropbox ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessperson
ⓘ
chief executive officer ⓘ entrepreneur ⓘ software engineer ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Chief Executive Officer of Dropbox
ⓘ
co-founder of Dropbox ⓘ |
| residence | San Francisco ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| speaksLanguage | English ⓘ |
| workLocation | San Francisco ⓘ |
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: Drew Description of subject: Drew is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and CEO of the cloud storage company Dropbox.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.