Kevin Ryan
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Kevin Ryan is an American entrepreneur and investor best known as the co-founder and former CEO of online advertising company DoubleClick and a prominent figure in New York’s tech scene.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Kevin Ryan canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3528327 — 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: Kevin Ryan Context triple: [DoubleClick Inc., keyPerson, Kevin Ryan]
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A.
Glenn Shadix
Glenn Shadix was an American character actor best known for his eccentric roles in films like "Beetlejuice" and various voice performances in animated works.
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B.
Jeff MacNelly
Jeff MacNelly was an American editorial cartoonist and creator of the comic strip "Shoe," renowned for his sharp political satire and three Pulitzer Prizes for Editorial Cartooning.
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C.
Michael Rogers
Michael Rogers is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and the arts, rather than referring to one singular widely recognized figure.
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D.
Jeremy Kemp
Jeremy Kemp was a British character actor known for his roles in films such as "The Blue Max," "A Bridge Too Far," and numerous television dramas.
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E.
Christopher Lennertz
Christopher Lennertz is an American composer best known for his film, television, and video game scores, including work on major comedies, action films, and popular series like Supernatural.
- 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: Kevin Ryan Target entity description: Kevin Ryan is an American entrepreneur and investor best known as the co-founder and former CEO of online advertising company DoubleClick and a prominent figure in New York’s tech scene.
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A.
Glenn Shadix
Glenn Shadix was an American character actor best known for his eccentric roles in films like "Beetlejuice" and various voice performances in animated works.
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B.
Jeff MacNelly
Jeff MacNelly was an American editorial cartoonist and creator of the comic strip "Shoe," renowned for his sharp political satire and three Pulitzer Prizes for Editorial Cartooning.
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C.
Michael Rogers
Michael Rogers is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and the arts, rather than referring to one singular widely recognized figure.
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D.
Jeremy Kemp
Jeremy Kemp was a British character actor known for his roles in films such as "The Blue Max," "A Bridge Too Far," and numerous television dramas.
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E.
Christopher Lennertz
Christopher Lennertz is an American composer best known for his film, television, and video game scores, including work on major comedies, action films, and popular series like Supernatural.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
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business executive ⓘ entrepreneur ⓘ human ⓘ investor ⓘ |
| coFounded | DoubleClick ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| industry |
online advertising
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technology ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being former CEO of DoubleClick
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co-founding DoubleClick ⓘ role in New York tech ecosystem ⓘ |
| name | Kevin Ryan ⓘ |
| nationality | United States of America ⓘ |
| notableRole | prominent figure in New York tech scene ⓘ |
| occupation |
business executive
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entrepreneur ⓘ investor ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Chief Executive Officer of DoubleClick ⓘ |
| workLocation | New York City ⓘ |
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: Kevin Ryan Description of subject: Kevin Ryan is an American entrepreneur and investor best known as the co-founder and former CEO of online advertising company DoubleClick and a prominent figure in New York’s tech scene.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.