Fred Luddy
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Fred Luddy is an American entrepreneur and software executive best known as the founder of the cloud-based enterprise software company ServiceNow.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Fred Luddy canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2703798 — 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: Fred Luddy Context triple: [ServiceNow, foundedBy, Fred Luddy]
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A.
Roger E. Broggie
Roger E. Broggie is a steam locomotive at Walt Disney World Railroad named in honor of Disney Imagineer and master machinist Roger E. Broggie, who was instrumental in developing Disney’s early railroad and ride systems.
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B.
Roger D. Lapham
Roger D. Lapham was an American shipping executive and politician who served as mayor of San Francisco in the 1940s.
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C.
Milton Van Dyke
Milton Van Dyke was an influential American fluid dynamicist and author known for his classic works on aerodynamics and fluid mechanics, including the widely used reference "An Album of Fluid Motion."
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D.
Jack L. Murray
Jack L. Murray is a film producer best known for his work on the 2009 horror remake "My Bloody Valentine 3D."
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E.
George L. Dahl
George L. Dahl was a prominent 20th-century American architect known for shaping much of Dallas’s skyline and major civic landmarks.
- 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: Fred Luddy Target entity description: Fred Luddy is an American entrepreneur and software executive best known as the founder of the cloud-based enterprise software company ServiceNow.
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A.
Roger E. Broggie
Roger E. Broggie is a steam locomotive at Walt Disney World Railroad named in honor of Disney Imagineer and master machinist Roger E. Broggie, who was instrumental in developing Disney’s early railroad and ride systems.
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B.
Roger D. Lapham
Roger D. Lapham was an American shipping executive and politician who served as mayor of San Francisco in the 1940s.
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C.
Milton Van Dyke
Milton Van Dyke was an influential American fluid dynamicist and author known for his classic works on aerodynamics and fluid mechanics, including the widely used reference "An Album of Fluid Motion."
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D.
Jack L. Murray
Jack L. Murray is a film producer best known for his work on the 2009 horror remake "My Bloody Valentine 3D."
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E.
George L. Dahl
George L. Dahl was a prominent 20th-century American architect known for shaping much of Dallas’s skyline and major civic landmarks.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
entrepreneur
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human ⓘ software executive ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
San Diego technology community
ⓘ
Silicon Valley technology ecosystem ⓘ |
| boardMemberOf | ServiceNow ⓘ |
| businessModel | software as a service ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedIn | computer programming ⓘ |
| employer |
Enterprise Software Associates
ⓘ
Peregrine Systems ⓘ Remedy Corporation ⓘ ServiceNow ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
IT service management
ⓘ
cloud computing ⓘ enterprise software ⓘ |
| founded |
Enterprise Software Associates
ⓘ
ServiceNow ⓘ |
| hasNotableImpactOn |
cloud-based business software adoption
ⓘ
enterprise IT service management market ⓘ |
| hasRole |
founder of ServiceNow
ⓘ
product visionary at ServiceNow ⓘ |
| industry |
software industry
ⓘ
technology industry ⓘ |
| knownFor | founding ServiceNow ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | built ServiceNow into a leading cloud-based IT service management platform ⓘ |
| notableWork |
ServiceNow platform
ⓘ
linked to:
ServiceNow
|
| occupation |
business executive
ⓘ
entrepreneur ⓘ software engineer ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Chairman of ServiceNow
ⓘ
Chief Executive Officer of ServiceNow ⓘ Chief Product Officer of ServiceNow ⓘ |
| residence |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
|
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: Fred Luddy Description of subject: Fred Luddy is an American entrepreneur and software executive best known as the founder of the cloud-based enterprise software company ServiceNow.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.