Graham Spencer
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Graham Spencer is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the early internet search and web portal company Excite.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Graham Spencer canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4425546 — 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: Graham Spencer Context triple: [Excite, foundedBy, Graham Spencer]
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A.
Pete Glenister
Pete Glenister is a British songwriter, guitarist, and producer known for his work with artists such as Alison Moyet and Kirsty MacColl.
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B.
Scott Arfield
Scott Arfield is a professional footballer, best known as a midfielder who represented the Canadian national team after previously playing for Scotland at youth level and having a long club career in Scotland and England.
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C.
Ken Stott
Ken Stott is a Scottish actor known for his work in film, television, and theatre, including his role as the dwarf Balin in Peter Jackson’s Hobbit film trilogy.
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D.
Dean-Charles Chapman
Dean-Charles Chapman is an English actor best known for his roles in the war film "1917" and the television series "Game of Thrones."
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E.
Gavin Thorpe
Gavin Thorpe is a British author and game designer best known for his novels and work on the Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 universes for Games Workshop and Black Library.
- 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: Graham Spencer Target entity description: Graham Spencer is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the early internet search and web portal company Excite.
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A.
Pete Glenister
Pete Glenister is a British songwriter, guitarist, and producer known for his work with artists such as Alison Moyet and Kirsty MacColl.
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B.
Scott Arfield
Scott Arfield is a professional footballer, best known as a midfielder who represented the Canadian national team after previously playing for Scotland at youth level and having a long club career in Scotland and England.
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C.
Ken Stott
Ken Stott is a Scottish actor known for his work in film, television, and theatre, including his role as the dwarf Balin in Peter Jackson’s Hobbit film trilogy.
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D.
Dean-Charles Chapman
Dean-Charles Chapman is an English actor best known for his roles in the war film "1917" and the television series "Game of Thrones."
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E.
Gavin Thorpe
Gavin Thorpe is a British author and game designer best known for his novels and work on the Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 universes for Games Workshop and Black Library.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
businessperson
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computer scientist ⓘ entrepreneur ⓘ human ⓘ |
| basedIn |
California
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linked to:
California, United States
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| coFounded | Excite ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Stanford University ⓘ |
| employer | Excite ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
computer science
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information retrieval ⓘ internet search ⓘ web portals ⓘ |
| genre | startup founder ⓘ |
| industry |
internet industry
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technology industry ⓘ |
| knownFor | co-founding Excite ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | founding team of Excite ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
helped build one of the early large-scale web search engines
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pioneer in early commercial web search ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Excite
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Excite search engine ⓘ
linked to:
Excite
Excite web portal ⓘ
linked to:
Excite
|
| occupation |
computer scientist
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entrepreneur ⓘ software engineer ⓘ |
| positionHeld | chief technology officer of Excite ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation | Silicon Valley ⓘ |
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: Graham Spencer Description of subject: Graham Spencer is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the early internet search and web portal company Excite.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.