Steve Sarowitz
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Steve Sarowitz is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as the founder of the payroll and human capital management software company Paylocity.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Steve Sarowitz canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5952863 — 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: Steve Sarowitz Context triple: [Paylocity, foundedBy, Steve Sarowitz]
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A.
Steven Haft
Steven Haft is an American film producer known for his work on movies such as the cult Halloween comedy "Hocus Pocus."
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B.
Sam Levenson
Sam Levenson was an American humorist, writer, and television host known for his warm, family-centered Jewish humor and popular books such as "Everything But Money."
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C.
Bennett Rosenthal
Bennett Rosenthal is an American businessman and private equity executive best known as a co-owner of the Major League Soccer club Los Angeles FC.
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D.
Josh Srebnick
Josh Srebnick is a central character in the film "While We're Young," portrayed as a middle-aged documentary filmmaker grappling with ambition, authenticity, and aging in contrast to a younger creative couple.
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E.
Alex Casnoff
Alex Casnoff is an American musician and keyboardist best known for his work with the indie rock band Dawes and later projects like Harriet.
- 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: Steve Sarowitz Target entity description: Steve Sarowitz is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as the founder of the payroll and human capital management software company Paylocity.
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A.
Steven Haft
Steven Haft is an American film producer known for his work on movies such as the cult Halloween comedy "Hocus Pocus."
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B.
Sam Levenson
Sam Levenson was an American humorist, writer, and television host known for his warm, family-centered Jewish humor and popular books such as "Everything But Money."
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C.
Bennett Rosenthal
Bennett Rosenthal is an American businessman and private equity executive best known as a co-owner of the Major League Soccer club Los Angeles FC.
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D.
Josh Srebnick
Josh Srebnick is a central character in the film "While We're Young," portrayed as a middle-aged documentary filmmaker grappling with ambition, authenticity, and aging in contrast to a younger creative couple.
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E.
Alex Casnoff
Alex Casnoff is an American musician and keyboardist best known for his work with the indie rock band Dawes and later projects like Harriet.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
company
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entrepreneur ⓘ human ⓘ software company ⓘ |
| businessModel | software-as-a-service ⓘ |
| businessSector |
software-as-a-service
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technology ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Paylocity ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
human capital management software
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payroll software ⓘ |
| founder | Steve Sarowitz ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Sarowitz ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Steve ⓘ |
| industry |
human capital management
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human capital management software ⓘ payroll services ⓘ payroll software ⓘ software industry ⓘ |
| knownFor | founding Paylocity ⓘ |
| notableWork | Paylocity ⓘ |
| occupation |
entrepreneur
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philanthropist ⓘ |
| positionHeld | founder of Paylocity ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| sharesCitizenshipWith | American entrepreneurs ⓘ |
| sharesFieldWith |
payroll software founders
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software entrepreneurs ⓘ |
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: Steve Sarowitz Description of subject: Steve Sarowitz is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as the founder of the payroll and human capital management software company Paylocity.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.