Ward Poulos
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Ward Poulos is an entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the online employment marketplace ZipRecruiter.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ward Poulos canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7893735 — 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: Ward Poulos Context triple: [ZipRecruiter, foundedBy, Ward Poulos]
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A.
Michael Potts
Michael Potts is an American actor known for his work in film, television, and theater, including notable roles in projects like "The Wire," "True Detective," and various Broadway productions.
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B.
Ward McAllister
Ward McAllister was a prominent 19th-century New York social arbiter best known for codifying the rules of high society and helping define the elite circle known as "The Four Hundred."
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C.
Roger Davis
Roger Davis is a central character in the musical "Rent," a struggling filmmaker and former rock musician grappling with love, loss, and life in New York City's East Village during the AIDS crisis.
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D.
James W. Skotchdopole
James W. Skotchdopole is an American film and television producer and assistant director known for his work on acclaimed projects such as Birdman and collaborations with prominent directors.
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E.
Phil Wenneck
Phil Wenneck is a charismatic, fast-talking schoolteacher and member of the "Wolfpack" whose misadventures drive much of the comedy in The Hangover film series.
- 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: Ward Poulos Target entity description: Ward Poulos is an entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the online employment marketplace ZipRecruiter.
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A.
Michael Potts
Michael Potts is an American actor known for his work in film, television, and theater, including notable roles in projects like "The Wire," "True Detective," and various Broadway productions.
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B.
Ward McAllister
Ward McAllister was a prominent 19th-century New York social arbiter best known for codifying the rules of high society and helping define the elite circle known as "The Four Hundred."
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C.
Roger Davis
Roger Davis is a central character in the musical "Rent," a struggling filmmaker and former rock musician grappling with love, loss, and life in New York City's East Village during the AIDS crisis.
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D.
James W. Skotchdopole
James W. Skotchdopole is an American film and television producer and assistant director known for his work on acclaimed projects such as Birdman and collaborations with prominent directors.
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E.
Phil Wenneck
Phil Wenneck is a charismatic, fast-talking schoolteacher and member of the "Wolfpack" whose misadventures drive much of the comedy in The Hangover film series.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
businessperson
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entrepreneur ⓘ online employment marketplace ⓘ |
| coFounderOf | ZipRecruiter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| field |
online recruitment
ⓘ
technology entrepreneurship ⓘ |
| industry |
human resources technology
ⓘ
recruitment ⓘ |
| knownFor | co-founding ZipRecruiter ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork | ZipRecruiter online employment marketplace NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | 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: Ward Poulos Description of subject: Ward Poulos is an entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the online employment marketplace ZipRecruiter.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.