Andrew W. Houston
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Andrew W. Houston is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and CEO of the cloud storage company Dropbox.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Andrew W. Houston canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2716672 — 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: Andrew W. Houston Context triple: [Drew Houston, fullName, Andrew W. Houston]
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A.
Michael T. Williamson
Michael T. Williamson is an American actor best known for his role as Benjamin Buford "Bubba" Blue in the film Forrest Gump.
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B.
Robert J. Wynne
Robert J. Wynne was an American journalist and public official who served in senior federal financial and postal administration roles in the early 20th century.
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C.
Duncan M. Gray III
Duncan M. Gray III is an American Episcopal bishop known for his leadership in the Diocese of Mississippi and his advocacy for social justice and civil rights.
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D.
Alan S. Boyd
Alan S. Boyd was an American lawyer and public official who became the first U.S. Secretary of Transportation, helping to shape national transportation policy in the late 1960s.
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E.
Anthony W. Marshall
Anthony W. Marshall was an American film and television producer and director, best known for his work on popular sitcoms and as the father of actress-director Penny Marshall.
- 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: Andrew W. Houston Target entity description: Andrew W. Houston is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and CEO of the cloud storage company Dropbox.
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A.
Michael T. Williamson
Michael T. Williamson is an American actor best known for his role as Benjamin Buford "Bubba" Blue in the film Forrest Gump.
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B.
Robert J. Wynne
Robert J. Wynne was an American journalist and public official who served in senior federal financial and postal administration roles in the early 20th century.
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C.
Duncan M. Gray III
Duncan M. Gray III is an American Episcopal bishop known for his leadership in the Diocese of Mississippi and his advocacy for social justice and civil rights.
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D.
Alan S. Boyd
Alan S. Boyd was an American lawyer and public official who became the first U.S. Secretary of Transportation, helping to shape national transportation policy in the late 1960s.
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E.
Anthony W. Marshall
Anthony W. Marshall was an American film and television producer and director, best known for his work on popular sitcoms and as the father of actress-director Penny Marshall.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: Andrew W. Houston Description of subject: Andrew W. Houston is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and CEO of the cloud storage company Dropbox.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.