Jim McKelvey
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Jim McKelvey is an American entrepreneur and co-founder of the financial technology company Square (now Block, Inc.), as well as a philanthropist and author.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jim McKelvey canonical | 13 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2237464 — 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: Jim McKelvey Context triple: [Olin Business School, hasAlumni, Jim McKelvey]
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A.
Tim McClelland
Tim McClelland is a former Major League Baseball umpire known for his long tenure, distinctive strike zone, and involvement in several high-profile postseason games.
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B.
Ed McCauley
Ed McCauley is a Canadian academic and research leader who serves as president of the University of Calgary.
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C.
Rob McKenna
Rob McKenna is a perpetually rain-plagued lorry driver in Douglas Adams' "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish," humorously revealed to be a Rain God unknowingly worshipped by clouds.
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D.
Rob McKenna
Rob McKenna is an American attorney and politician best known for serving as the Attorney General of Washington State.
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E.
Michael McCusker
Michael McCusker is an American film editor known for his work on major Hollywood productions, including the thriller "The Girl on the Train" (2016).
- 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: Jim McKelvey Target entity description: Jim McKelvey is an American entrepreneur and co-founder of the financial technology company Square (now Block, Inc.), as well as a philanthropist and author.
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A.
Tim McClelland
Tim McClelland is a former Major League Baseball umpire known for his long tenure, distinctive strike zone, and involvement in several high-profile postseason games.
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B.
Ed McCauley
Ed McCauley is a Canadian academic and research leader who serves as president of the University of Calgary.
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C.
Rob McKenna
Rob McKenna is an American attorney and politician best known for serving as the Attorney General of Washington State.
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D.
Rob McKenna
Rob McKenna is a perpetually rain-plagued lorry driver in Douglas Adams' "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish," humorously revealed to be a Rain God unknowingly worshipped by clouds.
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E.
Michael McCusker
Michael McCusker is an American film editor known for his work on major Hollywood productions, including the thriller "The Girl on the Train" (2016).
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
author
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businessperson ⓘ computer scientist ⓘ engineer ⓘ entrepreneur ⓘ human ⓘ philanthropist ⓘ |
| coFounded |
Block, Inc.
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Fountainhead ⓘ Invisibly ⓘ LaunchCode ⓘ Square ⓘ Third Degree Glass Factory ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Washington University in St. Louis ⓘ |
| employer |
Block, Inc.
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Square ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
entrepreneurship
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financial technology ⓘ glassblowing ⓘ philanthropy ⓘ software engineering ⓘ |
| genre |
business literature
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non-fiction ⓘ |
| hasRole |
co-founder of Invisibly
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co-founder of LaunchCode ⓘ co-founder of Square ⓘ co-founder of Third Degree Glass Factory ⓘ glassblower ⓘ |
| industry |
financial technology
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payments industry ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-founding Block, Inc.
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co-founding Square ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
founded a nonprofit organization to expand access to coding jobs (LaunchCode)
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helped create one of the first widely adopted mobile credit card readers ⓘ |
| notableWork |
The Innovation Stack
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The Innovation Stack: Building an Unbeatable Business One Crazy Idea at a Time ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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businessperson ⓘ computer scientist ⓘ entrepreneur ⓘ philanthropist ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
St. Louis, Missouri
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linked to:
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
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| positionHeld |
chair of the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
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deputy chair of the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis ⓘ member of the board of directors of Block, Inc. ⓘ vice chair of the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis ⓘ |
| residence |
St. Louis, Missouri
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linked to:
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
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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: Jim McKelvey Description of subject: Jim McKelvey is an American entrepreneur and co-founder of the financial technology company Square (now Block, Inc.), as well as a philanthropist and author.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.