Jeff Skoll
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Jeff Skoll is a Canadian-born entrepreneur, film producer, and philanthropist best known as eBay’s first president and for founding Participant Media and the Skoll Foundation to promote social change.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jeff Skoll canonical | 16 |
| Jeffrey Skoll | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T359412 — 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: Jeff Skoll Context triple: [eBay, founder, Jeff Skoll]
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A.
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.
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B.
Mitchell Kapor
Mitchell Kapor is an American entrepreneur and software pioneer best known for founding Lotus Development Corporation and co-creating the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet, as well as for his philanthropy and advocacy in technology and civil liberties.
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C.
Steve Case
Steve Case is an American entrepreneur and investor best known as the co-founder and former CEO of AOL, a pioneering internet services company.
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D.
Reed Hastings
Reed Hastings is an American entrepreneur and business executive best known as the co-founder and longtime CEO of Netflix, a pioneering company in video streaming and entertainment.
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E.
Joe Mansueto
Joe Mansueto is an American billionaire entrepreneur and investor best known as the founder of Morningstar, Inc. and as the owner of the Chicago Fire FC soccer club.
- 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: Jeff Skoll Target entity description: Jeff Skoll is a Canadian-born entrepreneur, film producer, and philanthropist best known as eBay’s first president and for founding Participant Media and the Skoll Foundation to promote social change.
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A.
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.
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B.
Mitchell Kapor
Mitchell Kapor is an American entrepreneur and software pioneer best known for founding Lotus Development Corporation and co-creating the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet, as well as for his philanthropy and advocacy in technology and civil liberties.
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C.
Steve Case
Steve Case is an American entrepreneur and investor best known as the co-founder and former CEO of AOL, a pioneering internet services company.
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D.
Reed Hastings
Reed Hastings is an American entrepreneur and business executive best known as the co-founder and longtime CEO of Netflix, a pioneering company in video streaming and entertainment.
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E.
Joe Mansueto
Joe Mansueto is an American billionaire entrepreneur and investor best known as the founder of Morningstar, Inc. and as the owner of the Chicago Fire FC soccer club.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (63)
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: Jeff Skoll Description of subject: Jeff Skoll is a Canadian-born entrepreneur, film producer, and philanthropist best known as eBay’s first president and for founding Participant Media and the Skoll Foundation to promote social change.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Jeff Skoll
linked to: Jeff Skoll
subject linked to:
film "Chicago 10"
linked to: Jeff Skoll
subject linked to:
Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at the University of Oxford