Ted Leonsis
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Ted Leonsis is an American businessman, investor, and sports team owner best known for leading Monumental Sports & Entertainment, which owns several major Washington, D.C. professional sports franchises.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ted Leonsis canonical | 10 |
| Leonsis | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11194 — 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: Ted Leonsis Context triple: [Washington Capitals, principalOwner, Ted Leonsis]
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A.
John V. L. Hogan
John V. L. Hogan was an American radio engineer and pioneer in early radio technology and broadcasting.
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B.
Bill and Melinda Gates
Bill and Melinda Gates are American philanthropists best known for founding and leading the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, one of the world’s largest private charitable organizations focused on global health, education, and poverty alleviation.
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C.
Harold A. Wheeler
Harold A. Wheeler was an influential American electrical engineer and inventor known for his pioneering contributions to radio and radar technology.
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D.
Harold Hazen
Harold Hazen was an American electrical engineer and MIT professor known for his pioneering work in control systems and his role in developing early analog computing devices.
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E.
Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg is an American technology entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as the co-founder and CEO of Facebook (now Meta Platforms).
- 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: Ted Leonsis Target entity description: Ted Leonsis is an American businessman, investor, and sports team owner best known for leading Monumental Sports & Entertainment, which owns several major Washington, D.C. professional sports franchises.
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A.
John V. L. Hogan
John V. L. Hogan was an American radio engineer and pioneer in early radio technology and broadcasting.
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B.
Bill and Melinda Gates
Bill and Melinda Gates are American philanthropists best known for founding and leading the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, one of the world’s largest private charitable organizations focused on global health, education, and poverty alleviation.
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C.
Harold A. Wheeler
Harold A. Wheeler was an influential American electrical engineer and inventor known for his pioneering contributions to radio and radar technology.
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D.
Harold Hazen
Harold Hazen was an American electrical engineer and MIT professor known for his pioneering work in control systems and his role in developing early analog computing devices.
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E.
Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg is an American technology entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as the co-founder and CEO of Facebook (now Meta Platforms).
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
businessperson
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human ⓘ investor ⓘ sports team owner ⓘ |
| boardMemberOf | Monumental Sports & Entertainment ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Georgetown University ⓘ |
| employer | Monumental Sports & Entertainment ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Greek American ⓘ |
| familyName |
Leonsis
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linked to:
Ted Leonsis
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| formerEmployer | AOL ⓘ |
| founded |
Monumental Sports Network
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linked to:
Monumental Sports & Entertainment
Revolution Money ⓘ SnagFilms ⓘ |
| givenName | Ted ⓘ |
| hasRole |
majority owner of Washington Capitals
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majority owner of Washington Mystics ⓘ majority owner of Washington Wizards ⓘ |
| industry |
media
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sports ⓘ technology ⓘ |
| name | Ted Leonsis ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
key figure in Washington, D.C. sports revitalization
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oversaw 2018 Stanley Cup win by Washington Capitals ⓘ |
| notableFor | leadership of Monumental Sports & Entertainment ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Business of Happiness ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessman
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entrepreneur ⓘ film producer ⓘ investor ⓘ sports executive ⓘ |
| owns |
Capital City Go-Go
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Capital One Arena ⓘ Capitals esports interests ⓘ Go-Go (NBA G League team) ⓘ
linked to:
Capital City Go-Go
Washington Capitals ⓘ Washington Mystics ⓘ Washington Wizards ⓘ Wizards District Gaming ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Brooklyn, New York City
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linked to:
Brooklyn
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| positionHeld |
chairman of Monumental Sports & Entertainment
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chief executive officer of Monumental Sports & Entertainment ⓘ founder of Monumental Sports & Entertainment ⓘ president of AOL ⓘ vice chairman of AOL ⓘ |
| residence |
Washington, D.C. metropolitan area
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linked to:
Washington metropolitan area
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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: Ted Leonsis Description of subject: Ted Leonsis is an American businessman, investor, and sports team owner best known for leading Monumental Sports & Entertainment, which owns several major Washington, D.C. professional sports franchises.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Ted Leonsis