Dylan Smith
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Dylan Smith is an American entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and longtime chief financial officer of the cloud content management company Box.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dylan Smith canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2716770 — 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: Dylan Smith Context triple: [Box, foundedBy, Dylan Smith]
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A.
Dylan Highsmith
Dylan Highsmith is a film editor best known for his work on major action and science-fiction movies, including Pacific Rim: Uprising.
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B.
Dylan Taylor
Dylan Taylor is a Canadian actor known for his work in film and television, including roles in projects like the teen comedy-drama "Charlie Bartlett."
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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.
Dylan Tichenor
Dylan Tichenor is an American film editor known for his work on acclaimed films such as "There Will Be Blood," "Boogie Nights," and "The Royal Tenenbaums."
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E.
Wyatt Smith
Wyatt Smith is an American film editor known for his work on major studio productions, including musical and fantasy films.
- 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: Dylan Smith Target entity description: Dylan Smith is an American entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and longtime chief financial officer of the cloud content management company Box.
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A.
Dylan Highsmith
Dylan Highsmith is a film editor best known for his work on major action and science-fiction movies, including Pacific Rim: Uprising.
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B.
Dylan Taylor
Dylan Taylor is a Canadian actor known for his work in film and television, including roles in projects like the teen comedy-drama "Charlie Bartlett."
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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.
Dylan Tichenor
Dylan Tichenor is an American film editor known for his work on acclaimed films such as "There Will Be Blood," "Boogie Nights," and "The Royal Tenenbaums."
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E.
Wyatt Smith
Wyatt Smith is an American film editor known for his work on major studio productions, including musical and fantasy films.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
businessperson
ⓘ
chief financial officer ⓘ entrepreneur ⓘ human ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Silicon Valley tech ecosystem
ⓘ
linked to:
Silicon Valley
venture-backed startups ⓘ |
| basedIn |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ |
| businessArea |
software-as-a-service
ⓘ
subscription business models ⓘ |
| businessPartner | Aaron Levie ⓘ |
| coFounded | Box ⓘ |
| coFounderWith |
Aaron Levie
ⓘ
Jeff Queisser ⓘ Sam Ghods ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Duke University
ⓘ
Duke University’s Trinity College of Arts & Sciences ⓘ
linked to:
Duke University
|
| employer | Box ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy | economics ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasBoardLevelExperienceAt | Box ⓘ |
| hasExperienceIn |
SaaS metrics and unit economics
ⓘ
corporate governance ⓘ financial planning and analysis ⓘ initial public offerings ⓘ |
| hasRole |
capital raising for Box
ⓘ
corporate finance oversight at Box ⓘ financial strategy leader at Box ⓘ investor relations lead at Box ⓘ |
| industry |
cloud computing
ⓘ
content management software ⓘ enterprise software ⓘ |
| knownFor |
helping scale Box from startup to public company
ⓘ
longtime tenure as Box CFO ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Box executive team ⓘ |
| notableFor |
co-founding Box
ⓘ
serving as chief financial officer of Box ⓘ |
| occupation |
business executive
ⓘ
chief financial officer ⓘ entrepreneur ⓘ |
| positionHeld | chief financial officer of Box ⓘ |
| worksOn |
cloud content management solutions
ⓘ
enterprise collaboration tools ⓘ |
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: Dylan Smith Description of subject: Dylan Smith is an American entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and longtime chief financial officer of the cloud content management company Box.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.