Adam Neumann
E383936
Adam Neumann is an Israeli-American entrepreneur best known as the controversial co-founder and former CEO of the shared-office-space company WeWork.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Adam Neumann canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3739461 — 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: Adam Neumann Context triple: [WeWork, foundedBy, Adam Neumann]
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A.
Dustin Moskovitz
Dustin Moskovitz is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as a co-founder of Facebook and the productivity software company Asana.
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B.
Peter Thiel
Peter Thiel is a German-American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and political activist best known as a co-founder of PayPal and an early investor in Facebook.
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C.
Nathan Blecharczyk
Nathan Blecharczyk is an American billionaire entrepreneur and software engineer best known as a co-founder and longtime technology leader of the home-sharing company Airbnb.
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D.
Fred Wilson
Fred Wilson is the ambitious and profit-driven Petrox Oil executive who leads the ill-fated expedition to Skull Island in the 1976 remake of King Kong.
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E.
Reid Hoffman
Reid Hoffman is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and co-founder of LinkedIn, known for his influential role in the tech industry and philanthropy.
- 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: Adam Neumann Target entity description: Adam Neumann is an Israeli-American entrepreneur best known as the controversial co-founder and former CEO of the shared-office-space company WeWork.
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A.
Dustin Moskovitz
Dustin Moskovitz is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as a co-founder of Facebook and the productivity software company Asana.
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B.
Peter Thiel
Peter Thiel is a German-American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and political activist best known as a co-founder of PayPal and an early investor in Facebook.
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C.
Nathan Blecharczyk
Nathan Blecharczyk is an American billionaire entrepreneur and software engineer best known as a co-founder and longtime technology leader of the home-sharing company Airbnb.
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D.
Fred Wilson
Fred Wilson is the ambitious and profit-driven Petrox Oil executive who leads the ill-fated expedition to Skull Island in the 1976 remake of King Kong.
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E.
Reid Hoffman
Reid Hoffman is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and co-founder of LinkedIn, known for his influential role in the tech industry and philanthropy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
businessperson
ⓘ
company founder ⓘ entrepreneur ⓘ human ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Masayoshi Son
ⓘ
SoftBank Group ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1979-04-25 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Tel Aviv, Israel
ⓘ
linked to:
Tel Aviv
|
| businessModel | leasing office space long-term and subletting short-term via WeWork ⓘ |
| citizenship |
Israel
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| coFounded | WeWork ⓘ |
| coFounder | Miguel McKelvey ⓘ |
| describedAs |
charismatic leader
ⓘ
controversial business figure ⓘ |
| education | Baruch College ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Jewish people
ⓘ
linked to:
Jews
|
| familyName | Neumann ⓘ |
| founded |
Flow
ⓘ
Flowcarbon ⓘ WeGrow ⓘ WeLive ⓘ |
| givenName | Adam ⓘ |
| industry |
coworking
ⓘ
real estate ⓘ |
| knownFor |
rapid global expansion of WeWork
ⓘ
role in WeWork IPO failure in 2019 ⓘ unconventional management style ⓘ |
| mediaAppearance | subject of the series "WeCrashed" ⓘ |
| militaryRank | naval officer ⓘ |
| militaryService | Israel Defense Forces ⓘ |
| name | Adam Neumann ⓘ |
| notableFor |
co-founding WeWork
ⓘ
serving as CEO of WeWork ⓘ |
| occupation |
business executive
ⓘ
entrepreneur ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Jared Leto ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Chief Executive Officer of WeWork ⓘ |
| positionHeldEnd | 2019 ⓘ |
| positionHeldStart | 2010 ⓘ |
| relative | Rebekah Neumann ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| spouse | Rebekah Neumann ⓘ |
| stepDownReason | pressure from investors following failed IPO attempt ⓘ |
| steppedDownFromPosition | Chief Executive Officer of WeWork ⓘ |
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: Adam Neumann Description of subject: Adam Neumann is an Israeli-American entrepreneur best known as the controversial co-founder and former CEO of the shared-office-space company WeWork.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.