Scott Scherr
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business executive
company founder
entrepreneur
human
human capital management company
software company
Scott Scherr is an American entrepreneur best known as the founder and longtime CEO of the human capital management software company Ultimate Software.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Scott Scherr canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3429766 — 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)
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Target entity: Scott Scherr Context triple: [Ultimate Software, foundedBy, Scott Scherr]
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A.
Scott Ehrlich
Scott Ehrlich is a notable individual recognized for his contributions in his professional field, though specific widely known details about his work are not clearly established from the given information.
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B.
Ken Schretzmann
Ken Schretzmann is a film editor known for his work on major animated features, including Guillermo del Toro's stop-motion adaptation of Pinocchio.
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C.
Scott Devendorf
Scott Devendorf is an American bassist and multi-instrumentalist best known as a founding member of the indie rock band The National.
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D.
Kirk Schulz
Kirk Schulz is an American academic leader and engineer who serves as the president of Washington State University.
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E.
Brian Schmetzer
Brian Schmetzer is an American soccer coach best known for leading Seattle Sounders FC to multiple MLS Cup titles and establishing the club as a perennial league contender.
- 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 Scherr Target entity description: Scott Scherr is an American entrepreneur best known as the founder and longtime CEO of the human capital management software company Ultimate Software.
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A.
Scott Ehrlich
Scott Ehrlich is a notable individual recognized for his contributions in his professional field, though specific widely known details about his work are not clearly established from the given information.
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B.
Ken Schretzmann
Ken Schretzmann is a film editor known for his work on major animated features, including Guillermo del Toro's stop-motion adaptation of Pinocchio.
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C.
Scott Devendorf
Scott Devendorf is an American bassist and multi-instrumentalist best known as a founding member of the indie rock band The National.
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D.
Kirk Schulz
Kirk Schulz is an American academic leader and engineer who serves as the president of Washington State University.
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E.
Brian Schmetzer
Brian Schmetzer is an American soccer coach best known for leading Seattle Sounders FC to multiple MLS Cup titles and establishing the club as a perennial league contender.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
business executive
ⓘ
company founder ⓘ entrepreneur ⓘ human ⓘ human capital management company ⓘ software company ⓘ |
| areaOfInfluence |
United States technology sector
ⓘ
human resources software market ⓘ |
| businessModelAssociatedWith | software-as-a-service ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Ultimate Software ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
human capital management
ⓘ
human resources technology ⓘ software industry ⓘ |
| founded | Ultimate Software ⓘ |
| genre | business leadership ⓘ |
| hasMainActivity | leading and growing technology companies ⓘ |
| industry |
human capital management software
ⓘ
software-as-a-service ⓘ |
| knownAs | Scott Scherr ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
founding Ultimate Software
ⓘ
serving as CEO of Ultimate Software ⓘ |
| notableWork | building Ultimate Software into a leading HCM provider ⓘ |
| occupation |
chief executive officer
ⓘ
entrepreneur ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
chief executive officer of Ultimate Software
ⓘ
president of Ultimate Software ⓘ |
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 Scherr Description of subject: Scott Scherr is an American entrepreneur best known as the founder and longtime CEO of the human capital management software company Ultimate Software.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.