Scott Banister
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Scott Banister is an American entrepreneur and angel investor known for co-founding IronPort and early involvement with companies like PayPal and Facebook.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Scott Banister canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3780474 — 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: Scott Banister Context triple: [PayPal Mafia, hasMember, Scott Banister]
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A.
Christopher Benstead
Christopher Benstead is a British composer and music editor known for his film scores and sound work on major movies, including collaborations with director Guy Ritchie.
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B.
Michael Barnathan
Michael Barnathan is an American film producer known for working on major studio hits such as the "Night at the Museum" series and the "Harry Potter" films.
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C.
Johnny St. Cyr
Johnny St. Cyr was an influential early jazz banjoist and guitarist best known for his work with Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five and Hot Seven bands.
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D.
Adam Ryen
Adam Ryen is a voice actor best known for providing the voice of Cody in Disney's animated film "The Rescuers Down Under."
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E.
Christopher Clayton
Christopher Clayton is a distinguished geoscientist recognized for his significant contributions to the Earth sciences, as evidenced by his receipt of the prestigious William Smith Medal.
- 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: Scott Banister Target entity description: Scott Banister is an American entrepreneur and angel investor known for co-founding IronPort and early involvement with companies like PayPal and Facebook.
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A.
Christopher Benstead
Christopher Benstead is a British composer and music editor known for his film scores and sound work on major movies, including collaborations with director Guy Ritchie.
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B.
Michael Barnathan
Michael Barnathan is an American film producer known for working on major studio hits such as the "Night at the Museum" series and the "Harry Potter" films.
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C.
Johnny St. Cyr
Johnny St. Cyr was an influential early jazz banjoist and guitarist best known for his work with Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five and Hot Seven bands.
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D.
Adam Ryen
Adam Ryen is a voice actor best known for providing the voice of Cody in Disney's animated film "The Rescuers Down Under."
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E.
Christopher Clayton
Christopher Clayton is a distinguished geoscientist recognized for his significant contributions to the Earth sciences, as evidenced by his receipt of the prestigious William Smith Medal.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
angel investor
ⓘ
businessperson ⓘ entrepreneur ⓘ human ⓘ |
| advisorTo | various Silicon Valley startups ⓘ |
| boardMemberOf |
PandoDaily
ⓘ
Zappos ⓘ |
| coFounded | IronPort ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign ⓘ |
| employer |
IronPort
ⓘ
PayPal ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
internet industry
ⓘ
technology entrepreneurship ⓘ venture investing ⓘ |
| founded | Submit It! ⓘ |
| genreOfBusiness |
email security
ⓘ
online payments ⓘ social networking ⓘ |
| hasRole |
co-founder of IronPort
ⓘ
early Facebook investor ⓘ early PayPal executive ⓘ early PayPal investor ⓘ |
| investedIn |
Facebook
ⓘ
Hi5 ⓘ
linked to:
hi5
Palantir Technologies ⓘ PayPal ⓘ Postmates ⓘ SpaceX ⓘ Uber ⓘ Yelp ⓘ Zappos ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-founding IronPort
ⓘ
early internet advertising innovations ⓘ early involvement with Facebook ⓘ early involvement with PayPal ⓘ |
| memberOf |
The Thiel Fellowship network
ⓘ
linked to:
Thiel Fellowship
|
| notableAchievement |
being an early investor in Facebook
ⓘ
being an early investor in PayPal ⓘ helping build IronPort into a leading email security company ⓘ |
| notableWork | IronPort ⓘ |
| occupation |
angel investor
ⓘ
business executive ⓘ entrepreneur ⓘ |
| partnerInBusinessWith | Cyan Banister ⓘ |
| residence | San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ |
| spouse | Cyan Banister ⓘ |
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: Scott Banister Description of subject: Scott Banister is an American entrepreneur and angel investor known for co-founding IronPort and early involvement with companies like PayPal and Facebook.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.