Mike Homer
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Mike Homer was a technology executive best known for his leadership roles at Netscape and later as a co-founder of the online video service Kontiki.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mike Homer canonical | 2 |
| Michael Homer (businessman) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T662447 — 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: Mike Homer Context triple: [Netscape Communications Corporation, keyPerson, Mike Homer]
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A.
Mike Henry
Mike Henry is an American actor, comedian, and writer best known for voicing characters such as Cleveland Brown on the animated television series Family Guy and its spin-off The Cleveland Show.
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B.
Max Hodak
Max Hodak is an American entrepreneur and technologist best known as the co-founder and former president of Neuralink, a company developing brain–computer interface technology.
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C.
Homer Jack
Homer Jack was an American Unitarian minister and prominent civil rights and peace activist who helped lead and organize key mid-20th-century social justice movements.
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D.
Dick O’Connell
Dick O’Connell was the Boston Red Sox general manager credited with orchestrating the franchise’s dramatic resurgence in the 1960s, including the famed 1967 “Impossible Dream” season.
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E.
Pat Hobbs
Pat Hobbs is an American college athletics administrator best known for serving as the athletic director at Rutgers University, where he has overseen major developments in the Scarlet Knights’ athletic programs.
- 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: Mike Homer Target entity description: Mike Homer was a technology executive best known for his leadership roles at Netscape and later as a co-founder of the online video service Kontiki.
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A.
Mike Henry
Mike Henry is an American actor, comedian, and writer best known for voicing characters such as Cleveland Brown on the animated television series Family Guy and its spin-off The Cleveland Show.
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B.
Max Hodak
Max Hodak is an American entrepreneur and technologist best known as the co-founder and former president of Neuralink, a company developing brain–computer interface technology.
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C.
Homer Jack
Homer Jack was an American Unitarian minister and prominent civil rights and peace activist who helped lead and organize key mid-20th-century social justice movements.
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D.
Dick O’Connell
Dick O’Connell was the Boston Red Sox general manager credited with orchestrating the franchise’s dramatic resurgence in the 1960s, including the famed 1967 “Impossible Dream” season.
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E.
Pat Hobbs
Pat Hobbs is an American college athletics administrator best known for serving as the athletic director at Rutgers University, where he has overseen major developments in the Scarlet Knights’ athletic programs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
World Wide Web commercialization
ⓘ
online media startups ⓘ |
| basedIn | Silicon Valley ⓘ |
| coFounderOf | Kontiki ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Netscape Communications Corporation ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
internet technology
ⓘ
online video distribution ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Homer ⓘ |
| hasGivenName |
Mike
ⓘ
linked to:
Michael
|
| industry | technology industry ⓘ |
| knownFor | early internet industry leadership ⓘ |
| notableFor |
co-founding online video service Kontiki
ⓘ
leadership role at Netscape Communications Corporation ⓘ |
| notableWork | development of online video delivery platforms ⓘ |
| occupation |
entrepreneur
ⓘ
technology executive ⓘ |
| positionHeld | executive at Netscape Communications Corporation ⓘ |
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: Mike Homer Description of subject: Mike Homer was a technology executive best known for his leadership roles at Netscape and later as a co-founder of the online video service Kontiki.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.