Scott Heiferman
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Scott Heiferman is an American entrepreneur best known for co-founding the social networking platform Meetup, which helps people organize and attend local in-person events.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Scott Heiferman canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7147957 — 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)
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Target entity: Scott Heiferman Context triple: [Meetup.com, founder, Scott Heiferman]
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A.
John Eisendrath
John Eisendrath is a television writer and producer best known for his work on series such as "The Blacklist" and "Alias."
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B.
Dave Heineman
Dave Heineman is an American Republican politician who served as the 39th governor of Nebraska from 2005 to 2015.
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C.
Steven Dillingham
Steven Dillingham is an American government official who served as Director of the U.S. Census Bureau during the 2020 United States census.
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D.
Stephen McFeely
Stephen McFeely is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing several major Marvel Cinematic Universe films, including the Captain America trilogy and Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame.
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E.
Michael Wells
Michael Wells is a musician best known as a member of the American alternative country/rock band The Walkabouts.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: Scott Heiferman Target entity description: Scott Heiferman is an American entrepreneur best known for co-founding the social networking platform Meetup, which helps people organize and attend local in-person events.
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A.
John Eisendrath
John Eisendrath is a television writer and producer best known for his work on series such as "The Blacklist" and "Alias."
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B.
Dave Heineman
Dave Heineman is an American Republican politician who served as the 39th governor of Nebraska from 2005 to 2015.
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C.
Steven Dillingham
Steven Dillingham is an American government official who served as Director of the U.S. Census Bureau during the 2020 United States census.
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D.
Stephen McFeely
Stephen McFeely is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing several major Marvel Cinematic Universe films, including the Captain America trilogy and Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame.
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E.
Michael Wells
Michael Wells is a musician best known as a member of the American alternative country/rock band The Walkabouts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
entrepreneur
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Meetup community organizers
ⓘ
New York tech community ⓘ |
| basedIn | New York City ⓘ |
| businessSector |
event organization platforms
ⓘ
social media ⓘ |
| coFounded |
Meetup
ⓘ
linked to:
Meetup.com
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Iowa ⓘ |
| employer |
Meetup
ⓘ
linked to:
Meetup.com
|
| fieldOfWork |
online communities
ⓘ
social networking ⓘ technology startups ⓘ |
| founded |
Meetup
ⓘ
linked to:
Meetup.com
i-traffic ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Scott ⓘ |
| hasActivity |
leadership in mission-driven tech companies
ⓘ
public speaking on community and technology ⓘ |
| hasRole |
community builder
ⓘ
startup founder ⓘ |
| industry |
internet industry
ⓘ
technology industry ⓘ |
| knownFor | co-founding Meetup ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Scott Heiferman ⓘ |
| nationality | United States of America ⓘ |
| notableFor | promoting in-person community building through technology ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Meetup
ⓘ
linked to:
Meetup.com
|
| occupation |
business executive
ⓘ
entrepreneur ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
CEO of Meetup
ⓘ
co-founder of Meetup ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
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: Scott Heiferman Description of subject: Scott Heiferman is an American entrepreneur best known for co-founding the social networking platform Meetup, which helps people organize and attend local in-person events.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.