Speakable
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Speakable is a social enterprise and technology platform founded by Jordan Hewson that helps people take concrete civic and charitable actions related to the news they read online.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Speakable canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5861128 — 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: Speakable Context triple: [Jordan Hewson, notableWork, Speakable]
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A.
Speaking in Tongues
"Speaking in Tongues" is a 1983 art-rock and new wave album by Talking Heads, fronted by David Byrne, known for its innovative sound and the hit single "Burning Down the House."
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B.
Speaking in Tongues
"Speaking in Tongues" is an Australian stage play by Andrew Bovell, best known as the source material for the acclaimed film "Lantana."
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C.
I Speak Six Languages
"I Speak Six Languages" is a comedic character song from the musical *The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee* that showcases the overachieving, hyper-competitive personality of contestant Marcy Park.
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D.
Goodbye to Language
Goodbye to Language is a 2014 experimental 3D film by French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard that explores fractured communication, perception, and the limits of cinema through a fragmented, essay-like narrative.
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E.
Visible Speech
Visible Speech is a 19th-century phonetic notation system devised by Alexander Melville Bell to visually represent the position and movement of speech organs for any spoken sound.
- 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: Speakable Target entity description: Speakable is a social enterprise and technology platform founded by Jordan Hewson that helps people take concrete civic and charitable actions related to the news they read online.
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A.
Speaking in Tongues
"Speaking in Tongues" is a 1983 art-rock and new wave album by Talking Heads, fronted by David Byrne, known for its innovative sound and the hit single "Burning Down the House."
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B.
Speaking in Tongues
"Speaking in Tongues" is an Australian stage play by Andrew Bovell, best known as the source material for the acclaimed film "Lantana."
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C.
I Speak Six Languages
"I Speak Six Languages" is a comedic character song from the musical *The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee* that showcases the overachieving, hyper-competitive personality of contestant Marcy Park.
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D.
Goodbye to Language
Goodbye to Language is a 2014 experimental 3D film by French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard that explores fractured communication, perception, and the limits of cinema through a fragmented, essay-like narrative.
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E.
Visible Speech
Visible Speech is a 19th-century phonetic notation system devised by Alexander Melville Bell to visually represent the position and movement of speech organs for any spoken sound.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
entrepreneur
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social enterprise ⓘ technology platform ⓘ |
| businessModel | social enterprise ⓘ |
| category |
civic tech startup
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social good platform ⓘ |
| focus |
civic engagement
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online news engagement ⓘ philanthropy ⓘ |
| founder | Jordan Hewson ⓘ |
| goal |
to convert news consumption into concrete actions
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to increase charitable giving ⓘ to increase civic participation ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
calls to action related to current events
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tools embedded alongside news content ⓘ |
| impactArea |
charitable giving
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civic engagement ⓘ digital activism ⓘ |
| industry |
civic technology
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social impact technology ⓘ |
| operatesIn | online environment ⓘ |
| operationalForm | for-purpose company ⓘ |
| purpose |
to help people take charitable actions related to news
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to help people take civic actions related to news ⓘ |
| serviceType |
action-taking tools
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charitable action tools ⓘ civic action tools ⓘ |
| targetUser |
news readers
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online audiences ⓘ |
| uses | web technology ⓘ |
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: Speakable Description of subject: Speakable is a social enterprise and technology platform founded by Jordan Hewson that helps people take concrete civic and charitable actions related to the news they read online.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.