Evan Spiegel
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Evan Spiegel is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and CEO of Snap Inc., the company behind Snapchat.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Evan Spiegel canonical | 16 |
| Evan Spiegel, CEO | 1 |
| Evan Thomas Spiegel | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T412203 — 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: Evan Spiegel Context triple: [Snap Inc., foundedBy, Evan Spiegel]
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A.
Kevin Systrom
Kevin Systrom is an American entrepreneur and programmer best known as the co-founder and former CEO of the photo-sharing social media platform Instagram.
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B.
Biz Stone
Biz Stone is an American entrepreneur and software developer best known as one of the co-founders of Twitter and a prominent figure in the social media industry.
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C.
Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg is an American technology entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as the co-founder and CEO of Facebook (now Meta Platforms).
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D.
Nathan Blecharczyk
Nathan Blecharczyk is an American billionaire entrepreneur and software engineer best known as a co-founder and longtime technology leader of the home-sharing company Airbnb.
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E.
Dustin Moskovitz
Dustin Moskovitz is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as a co-founder of Facebook and the productivity software company Asana.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: Evan Spiegel Target entity description: Evan Spiegel is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and CEO of Snap Inc., the company behind Snapchat.
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A.
Kevin Systrom
Kevin Systrom is an American entrepreneur and programmer best known as the co-founder and former CEO of the photo-sharing social media platform Instagram.
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B.
Biz Stone
Biz Stone is an American entrepreneur and software developer best known as one of the co-founders of Twitter and a prominent figure in the social media industry.
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C.
Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg is an American technology entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as the co-founder and CEO of Facebook (now Meta Platforms).
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D.
Nathan Blecharczyk
Nathan Blecharczyk is an American billionaire entrepreneur and software engineer best known as a co-founder and longtime technology leader of the home-sharing company Airbnb.
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E.
Dustin Moskovitz
Dustin Moskovitz is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as a co-founder of Facebook and the productivity software company Asana.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
business executive
ⓘ
entrepreneur ⓘ human ⓘ |
| boardMemberOf | Snap Inc. ⓘ |
| businessPartner |
Bobby Murphy
ⓘ
Reggie Brown ⓘ |
| coFounded |
Snap Inc.
ⓘ
Snapchat ⓘ |
| companyHeadquarteredIn |
Santa Monica, California, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Santa Monica
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1990-06-04 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Stanford University ⓘ |
| employer | Snap Inc. ⓘ |
| familyName | Spiegel ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy | product design ⓘ |
| founded |
Snap Inc.
ⓘ
Snapchat ⓘ |
| fullName |
Evan Thomas Spiegel
ⓘ
linked to:
Evan Spiegel
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Evan ⓘ |
| hasFirstGenerationProduct |
Snapchat mobile application
ⓘ
linked to:
Snapchat
|
| hasRole |
public company CEO
ⓘ
technology founder ⓘ |
| industry |
social media
ⓘ
technology ⓘ |
| isMillennialEntrepreneur | true ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-founding Snap Inc.
ⓘ
co-founding Snapchat ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | leading Snap Inc. initial public offering ⓘ |
| notableWork | development of Snapchat ephemeral messaging app ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessperson
ⓘ
chief executive officer ⓘ entrepreneur ⓘ |
| philanthropicActivity |
donations to education-related causes
ⓘ
support for arts and youth programs ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Los Angeles, California, United States ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
CEO of Snap Inc.
ⓘ
co-founder of Snap Inc. ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles, California, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Los Angeles
|
| socialMediaPlatformAssociatedWith | Snapchat ⓘ |
| spouse | Miranda Kerr ⓘ |
| startupEcosystem | 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: Evan Spiegel Description of subject: Evan Spiegel is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and CEO of Snap Inc., the company behind Snapchat.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.