John Creason
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John Creason is a technology entrepreneur best known as a founder of the collaborative work management software company Smartsheet.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| John Creason canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6435254 — 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: John Creason Context triple: [Smartsheet, foundedBy, John Creason]
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A.
Luke Doolan
Luke Doolan is an Australian film editor and filmmaker best known for his work on acclaimed films such as "Animal Kingdom."
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B.
Richard Creedon
Richard Creedon was a screenwriter best known for his work on Disney’s landmark animated feature film "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs."
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C.
Andrew Duggan
Andrew Duggan was an American character actor known for his prolific work in film and television from the 1950s through the 1980s.
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D.
Dan Kavanagh
Dan Kavanagh is the crime-fiction pseudonym used by British novelist Julian Barnes for a series of detective novels.
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E.
Daniel McCreanor
Daniel McCreanor was one of the civilians killed in the 1994 Loughinisland massacre in County Down, Northern Ireland, when loyalist gunmen opened fire in a village pub during a World Cup football match.
- 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: John Creason Target entity description: John Creason is a technology entrepreneur best known as a founder of the collaborative work management software company Smartsheet.
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A.
Luke Doolan
Luke Doolan is an Australian film editor and filmmaker best known for his work on acclaimed films such as "Animal Kingdom."
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B.
Richard Creedon
Richard Creedon was a screenwriter best known for his work on Disney’s landmark animated feature film "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs."
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C.
Andrew Duggan
Andrew Duggan was an American character actor known for his prolific work in film and television from the 1950s through the 1980s.
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D.
Dan Kavanagh
Dan Kavanagh is the crime-fiction pseudonym used by British novelist Julian Barnes for a series of detective novels.
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E.
Daniel McCreanor
Daniel McCreanor was one of the civilians killed in the 1994 Loughinisland massacre in County Down, Northern Ireland, when loyalist gunmen opened fire in a village pub during a World Cup football match.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
businessperson
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entrepreneur ⓘ public company ⓘ software company ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
|
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| field |
software industry
ⓘ
technology industry ⓘ |
| hasRole | founder of Smartsheet ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Bellevue, Washington, United States ⓘ |
| industry | software-as-a-service ⓘ |
| knownFor | Smartsheet ⓘ |
| notableWork | collaborative work management software ⓘ |
| occupation |
business executive
ⓘ
technology entrepreneur ⓘ |
| productOrService | collaborative work management software ⓘ |
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: John Creason Description of subject: John Creason is a technology entrepreneur best known as a founder of the collaborative work management software company Smartsheet.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.