Larry Hillblom
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Larry Hillblom was an American businessman and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the global logistics and courier company DHL.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Larry Hillblom canonical | 4 |
| Larry Lee Hillblom | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3829201 — 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: Larry Hillblom Context triple: [DHL, foundedBy, Larry Hillblom]
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A.
Johnny Gandelsman
Johnny Gandelsman is a Grammy-winning violinist and producer known for his work with ensembles like Brooklyn Rider and the Silk Road Ensemble, as well as for his innovative solo projects.
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B.
David Eigenberg
David Eigenberg is an American actor best known for his role as Steve Brady in the Sex and the City franchise and as Christopher Herrmann on the television series Chicago Fire.
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C.
Alex Gartner
Alex Gartner is a film producer known for his work on major Hollywood projects, including the action thriller "Triple Frontier."
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D.
Eric Steelberg
Eric Steelberg is an American cinematographer known for his work on feature films such as "Juno," "Up in the Air," and "500 Days of Summer."
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E.
Mike Medavoy
Mike Medavoy is an American film producer and studio executive known for backing numerous acclaimed and influential Hollywood films.
- 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: Larry Hillblom Target entity description: Larry Hillblom was an American businessman and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the global logistics and courier company DHL.
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A.
Johnny Gandelsman
Johnny Gandelsman is a Grammy-winning violinist and producer known for his work with ensembles like Brooklyn Rider and the Silk Road Ensemble, as well as for his innovative solo projects.
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B.
David Eigenberg
David Eigenberg is an American actor best known for his role as Steve Brady in the Sex and the City franchise and as Christopher Herrmann on the television series Chicago Fire.
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C.
Alex Gartner
Alex Gartner is a film producer known for his work on major Hollywood projects, including the action thriller "Triple Frontier."
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D.
Eric Steelberg
Eric Steelberg is an American cinematographer known for his work on feature films such as "Juno," "Up in the Air," and "500 Days of Summer."
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E.
Mike Medavoy
Mike Medavoy is an American film producer and studio executive known for backing numerous acclaimed and influential Hollywood films.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
businessperson
ⓘ
company founder ⓘ entrepreneur ⓘ human ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Northern Mariana Islands
ⓘ
Saipan economy ⓘ |
| businessModel | airport-to-airport document courier service in early DHL years ⓘ |
| businessRegion | global ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | airplane crash ⓘ |
| coFounded | DHL ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1943-05-12 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1995-05-21 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
UC Berkeley School of Law
ⓘ
University of California, Berkeley ⓘ |
| employer | DHL ⓘ |
| familyName | Hillblom ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy | law ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
DHL co-founders Adrian Dalsey
ⓘ
DHL co-founders Robert Lynn ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Larry ⓘ |
| hasPartIn | expansion of DHL in Asia ⓘ |
| industry |
courier services
ⓘ
logistics ⓘ |
| knownFor | co-founding DHL ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| legacy | major role in creating global express delivery industry ⓘ |
| legalIssue | posthumous paternity and inheritance disputes ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | accident ⓘ |
| name |
Larry Lee Hillblom
ⓘ
linked to:
Larry Hillblom
|
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| netWorth | billionaire (at time of death) ⓘ |
| notableEvent | disappearance in 1995 plane crash over Pacific Ocean ⓘ |
| notableFor | pioneering international overnight document delivery ⓘ |
| notableWork | development of international courier services at DHL ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessman
ⓘ
entrepreneur ⓘ |
| philanthropy | Hillblom Foundation (medical research funding) ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Kingsburg, California, United States ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | near Pagan Island, Northern Mariana Islands ⓘ |
| positionHeld | executive at DHL ⓘ |
| residence |
Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands
ⓘ
linked to:
Saipan
|
| transportMode | air courier services ⓘ |
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: Larry Hillblom Description of subject: Larry Hillblom was an American businessman and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the global logistics and courier company DHL.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.