Drew Houston
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Drew Houston is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and CEO of the cloud storage company Dropbox.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Drew Houston canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T478069 — 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: Drew Houston Context triple: [Dropbox, founder, Drew Houston]
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A.
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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B.
Dustin Moskovitz
Dustin Moskovitz is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as a co-founder of Facebook and the productivity software company Asana.
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C.
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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D.
Evan Spiegel
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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E.
Steve Chen
Steve Chen is a Taiwanese-American internet entrepreneur best known as one of the co-founders of the video-sharing platform YouTube.
- 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: Drew Houston Target entity description: Drew Houston is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and CEO of the cloud storage company Dropbox.
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A.
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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B.
Dustin Moskovitz
Dustin Moskovitz is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as a co-founder of Facebook and the productivity software company Asana.
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C.
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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D.
Evan Spiegel
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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E.
Steve Chen
Steve Chen is a Taiwanese-American internet entrepreneur best known as one of the co-founders of the video-sharing platform YouTube.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
business executive
ⓘ
entrepreneur ⓘ human ⓘ |
| appearedIn | technology conferences and startup events ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Y Combinator startup community ⓘ |
| basedIn | San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ |
| birthYear | 1983 ⓘ |
| boardMemberOf |
Facebook, Inc.
ⓘ
linked to:
Facebook
Meta Platforms, Inc. ⓘ |
| businessSector |
consumer internet
ⓘ
enterprise software ⓘ |
| coFounded | Dropbox ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1983-03-04 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ |
| entrepreneurialActivity | building and scaling Dropbox from startup to large technology company ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy | computer science ⓘ |
| founded |
Dropbox, Inc.
ⓘ
linked to:
Dropbox
|
| fullName | Andrew W. Houston ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Andrew ⓘ |
| hasEmployer |
Dropbox, Inc.
ⓘ
linked to:
Dropbox
|
| hasRole |
public company CEO
ⓘ
technology founder ⓘ |
| industry |
cloud computing
ⓘ
software-as-a-service ⓘ technology ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-founding Dropbox
ⓘ
serving as CEO of Dropbox ⓘ |
| memberOf | Phi Delta Theta fraternity at MIT ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| nickname | Drew ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | led Dropbox to become a widely used cloud storage service ⓘ |
| notableFor | popularizing consumer cloud storage solutions ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessperson
ⓘ
entrepreneur ⓘ software engineer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Acton, Massachusetts, United States ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Chief Executive Officer of Dropbox ⓘ |
| residence | San Francisco, California, United States ⓘ |
| speaksLanguage | English ⓘ |
| startupEcosystemRole | Silicon Valley entrepreneur ⓘ |
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: Drew Houston Description of subject: Drew Houston is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and CEO of the cloud storage company Dropbox.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.