Howery
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businessperson
entrepreneur
family name
human
investor
online payment company
surname
venture capital firm
Howery is a surname most notably associated with Ken Howery, an American entrepreneur, investor, and co-founder of PayPal and Founders Fund.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Howery canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2947977 — 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: Howery Context triple: [Ken Howery, familyName, Howery]
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A.
Howel
Howel is a given name and surname of Welsh origin, historically associated with several notable figures in Welsh history and literature.
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B.
Howie
Howie is the commonly used nickname of Howie Roseman, the longtime general manager and key roster architect of the NFL’s Philadelphia Eagles.
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C.
Havah
Havah is a transliteration of the Hebrew name for Eve, the first woman in the biblical creation narrative.
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D.
Worner
Worner is a surname and variant spelling of "Warner," used by various individuals and families, particularly in English-speaking countries.
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E.
Weslee
Weslee is a modern feminine given name, typically understood as a variant of the name Wesley.
- 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: Howery Target entity description: Howery is a surname most notably associated with Ken Howery, an American entrepreneur, investor, and co-founder of PayPal and Founders Fund.
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A.
Howel
Howel is a given name and surname of Welsh origin, historically associated with several notable figures in Welsh history and literature.
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B.
Howie
Howie is the commonly used nickname of Howie Roseman, the longtime general manager and key roster architect of the NFL’s Philadelphia Eagles.
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C.
Havah
Havah is a transliteration of the Hebrew name for Eve, the first woman in the biblical creation narrative.
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D.
Worner
Worner is a surname and variant spelling of "Warner," used by various individuals and families, particularly in English-speaking countries.
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E.
Weslee
Weslee is a modern feminine given name, typically understood as a variant of the name Wesley.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
businessperson
ⓘ
entrepreneur ⓘ family name ⓘ human ⓘ investor ⓘ online payment company ⓘ surname ⓘ venture capital firm ⓘ |
| coFounded |
Founders Fund
ⓘ
PayPal ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer |
Founders Fund
ⓘ
PayPal ⓘ |
| familyName | Howery ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
technology entrepreneurship
ⓘ
venture capital ⓘ |
| givenName | Ken ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| industry |
financial technology
ⓘ
venture capital ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-founding Founders Fund
ⓘ
co-founding PayPal ⓘ |
| notableBearer | Ken Howery ⓘ |
| occupation |
entrepreneur
ⓘ
investor ⓘ venture capitalist ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Chief Financial Officer of PayPal
ⓘ
partner at Founders Fund ⓘ |
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: Howery Description of subject: Howery is a surname most notably associated with Ken Howery, an American entrepreneur, investor, and co-founder of PayPal and Founders Fund.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.