Dollar Shave Club
E297570
Dollar Shave Club is a subscription-based personal grooming brand known for delivering affordable razors and shaving products directly to consumers, popularized by its viral marketing campaigns.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dollar Shave Club canonical | 4 |
| https://www.dollarshaveclub.com | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2784830 — 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: Dollar Shave Club Context triple: [Unilever, notableAcquisition, Dollar Shave Club]
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A.
Gillette
Gillette is a globally recognized American brand best known for its razors and shaving products.
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B.
Amway
Amway is a global multi-level marketing company that sells health, beauty, and home care products through a network of independent distributors.
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C.
L Brands
L Brands is an American retail company best known as the former parent of brands like Victoria’s Secret and Bath & Body Works.
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D.
Wirecutter, Inc.
Wirecutter, Inc. is a product review and recommendation website known for its rigorously researched buying guides across a wide range of consumer goods.
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E.
BLK/MRKT Inc.
BLK/MRKT Inc. is a creative agency and design studio co-founded by street artist Shepard Fairey, known for its work at the intersection of art, branding, and youth 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: Dollar Shave Club Target entity description: Dollar Shave Club is a subscription-based personal grooming brand known for delivering affordable razors and shaving products directly to consumers, popularized by its viral marketing campaigns.
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A.
Gillette
Gillette is a globally recognized American brand best known for its razors and shaving products.
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B.
Amway
Amway is a global multi-level marketing company that sells health, beauty, and home care products through a network of independent distributors.
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C.
L Brands
L Brands is an American retail company best known as the former parent of brands like Victoria’s Secret and Bath & Body Works.
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D.
Wirecutter, Inc.
Wirecutter, Inc. is a product review and recommendation website known for its rigorously researched buying guides across a wide range of consumer goods.
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E.
BLK/MRKT Inc.
BLK/MRKT Inc. is a creative agency and design studio co-founded by street artist Shepard Fairey, known for its work at the intersection of art, branding, and youth culture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
brand
ⓘ
company ⓘ subscription service ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | Unilever ⓘ |
| acquisitionDate | 2016 ⓘ |
| acquisitionValue | 1000000000 USD ⓘ |
| acquisitionYear | 2016 ⓘ |
| businessModel | subscription-based ⓘ |
| businessModelFeature | direct-to-consumer delivery ⓘ |
| competitor |
Gillette
ⓘ
Harry's ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| distributionChannel | online ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Mark Levine
ⓘ
Michael Dubin ⓘ |
| foundingDate | 2011 ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
Venice, California ⓘ |
| industry |
consumer goods
ⓘ
e-commerce ⓘ personal grooming ⓘ |
| knownFor |
affordable razors
ⓘ
humorous advertising ⓘ subscription razor delivery ⓘ viral marketing campaigns ⓘ |
| languageOfAdvertising | English ⓘ |
| launchEvent | “Our Blades Are F***ing Great” video ⓘ |
| launchEventYear | 2012 ⓘ |
| marketingStrategy |
online video marketing
ⓘ
social media marketing ⓘ |
| parentCompany | Unilever ⓘ |
| product |
aftershave
ⓘ
hair care products ⓘ personal grooming products ⓘ razors ⓘ shave butter ⓘ shaving cream ⓘ skin care products ⓘ |
| serviceArea |
Australia
ⓘ
Canada ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| targetMarket |
consumers seeking affordable razors
ⓘ
men ⓘ |
| website |
https://www.dollarshaveclub.com
ⓘ
linked to:
Dollar Shave Club
|
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: Dollar Shave Club Description of subject: Dollar Shave Club is a subscription-based personal grooming brand known for delivering affordable razors and shaving products directly to consumers, popularized by its viral marketing campaigns.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Dollar Shave Club