Kirk Schulz
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Kirk Schulz is an American academic leader and engineer who serves as the president of Washington State University.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kirk Schulz canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1955643 — 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: Kirk Schulz Context triple: [Washington State University, chancellorOrPresident, Kirk Schulz]
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A.
Ken Schretzmann
Ken Schretzmann is a film editor known for his work on major animated features, including Guillermo del Toro's stop-motion adaptation of Pinocchio.
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B.
Brent Kutzle
Brent Kutzle is an American musician, songwriter, and producer best known as the bassist and cellist for the band OneRepublic and for his work on various pop and rock records.
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C.
Scott Devendorf
Scott Devendorf is an American bassist and multi-instrumentalist best known as a founding member of the indie rock band The National.
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D.
Brian Schmetzer
Brian Schmetzer is an American soccer coach best known for leading Seattle Sounders FC to multiple MLS Cup titles and establishing the club as a perennial league contender.
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E.
Scott Kroopf
Scott Kroopf is an American film producer known for his work on numerous Hollywood features, including the science-fiction adventure film "Zathura: A Space Adventure."
- 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: Kirk Schulz Target entity description: Kirk Schulz is an American academic leader and engineer who serves as the president of Washington State University.
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A.
Ken Schretzmann
Ken Schretzmann is a film editor known for his work on major animated features, including Guillermo del Toro's stop-motion adaptation of Pinocchio.
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B.
Brent Kutzle
Brent Kutzle is an American musician, songwriter, and producer best known as the bassist and cellist for the band OneRepublic and for his work on various pop and rock records.
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C.
Scott Devendorf
Scott Devendorf is an American bassist and multi-instrumentalist best known as a founding member of the indie rock band The National.
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D.
Brian Schmetzer
Brian Schmetzer is an American soccer coach best known for leading Seattle Sounders FC to multiple MLS Cup titles and establishing the club as a perennial league contender.
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E.
Scott Kroopf
Scott Kroopf is an American film producer known for his work on numerous Hollywood features, including the science-fiction adventure film "Zathura: A Space Adventure."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic administrator
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engineer ⓘ human ⓘ university president ⓘ |
| academicDegree |
Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering
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PhD in chemical engineering ⓘ |
| boardMemberOf | NCAA Board of Governors ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Old Dominion University
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Virginia Tech ⓘ |
| employer |
Kansas State University
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Washington State University ⓘ |
| familyName | Schulz ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
chemical engineering
ⓘ
higher education administration ⓘ |
| givenName | Kirk ⓘ |
| hasAcademicRank | professor of chemical engineering ⓘ |
| languageSpokenWrittenOrSigned | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
American Institute of Chemical Engineers
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American Society for Engineering Education ⓘ |
| notableWork |
leadership of Kansas State University
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leadership of Washington State University ⓘ |
| occupation |
engineer
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professor ⓘ university president ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
president of Kansas State University
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president of Washington State University ⓘ |
| residence |
Washington (state)
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linked to:
Washington
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation | Pullman, Washington ⓘ |
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: Kirk Schulz Description of subject: Kirk Schulz is an American academic leader and engineer who serves as the president of Washington State University.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.