David Gottfried
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David Gottfried is an environmentalist and entrepreneur best known for pioneering the global green building movement and co-founding the U.S. Green Building Council.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Gottfried canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T919108 — 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: David Gottfried Context triple: [U.S. Green Building Council, foundedBy, David Gottfried]
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A.
Eric Friedman
Eric Friedman is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and chief technology officer of the wearable fitness technology company Fitbit.
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B.
Michael Klingensmith
Michael Klingensmith is an American media executive best known for helping launch and lead major magazine brands, including playing a key role in the creation of Entertainment Weekly.
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C.
Jeff Weltman
Jeff Weltman is a basketball executive who serves as the top front-office decision-maker for the NBA’s Orlando Magic.
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D.
David Winkler
David Winkler is an American film producer known for his work on major Hollywood movies, including entries in the Rocky/Creed franchise.
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E.
Jon Rubinstein
Jon Rubinstein is an American computer engineer and executive best known for his key role in developing Apple's iPod and later leading Palm as CEO.
- 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: David Gottfried Target entity description: David Gottfried is an environmentalist and entrepreneur best known for pioneering the global green building movement and co-founding the U.S. Green Building Council.
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A.
Eric Friedman
Eric Friedman is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and chief technology officer of the wearable fitness technology company Fitbit.
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B.
Michael Klingensmith
Michael Klingensmith is an American media executive best known for helping launch and lead major magazine brands, including playing a key role in the creation of Entertainment Weekly.
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C.
Jeff Weltman
Jeff Weltman is a basketball executive who serves as the top front-office decision-maker for the NBA’s Orlando Magic.
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D.
David Winkler
David Winkler is an American film producer known for his work on major Hollywood movies, including entries in the Rocky/Creed franchise.
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E.
Jon Rubinstein
Jon Rubinstein is an American computer engineer and executive best known for his key role in developing Apple's iPod and later leading Palm as CEO.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
author
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entrepreneur ⓘ environmentalist ⓘ person ⓘ public speaker ⓘ |
| advocates |
energy-efficient buildings
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regenerative design ⓘ sustainable construction practices ⓘ |
| basedIn |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
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| coFounded | U.S. Green Building Council ⓘ |
| educationField |
construction management
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engineering ⓘ |
| field |
environmental sustainability
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green building ⓘ sustainable development ⓘ |
| founded |
Regenerative Ventures
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Regenesis Group ⓘ World Green Building Council ⓘ |
| hasActivity |
consulting for green building projects
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keynote speaking on green building ⓘ mentoring green building leaders ⓘ |
| hasRole |
former board member of the U.S. Green Building Council
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founding chair of the World Green Building Council ⓘ green building advisor ⓘ |
| influenced |
development of LEED green building rating systems
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global green building standards ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-founding the U.S. Green Building Council
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founding the World Green Building Council ⓘ pioneering the global green building movement ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| movement |
green building movement
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regenerative sustainability movement ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Explosion Green
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Greed to Green ⓘ Greening My Life ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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consultant ⓘ entrepreneur ⓘ environmentalist ⓘ |
| recognition | pioneer of the global green building industry ⓘ |
| spouse | Sara Gottfried ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation |
author
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physician ⓘ |
| writesAbout |
green building
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personal transformation and green living ⓘ sustainability ⓘ |
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: David Gottfried Description of subject: David Gottfried is an environmentalist and entrepreneur best known for pioneering the global green building movement and co-founding the U.S. Green Building Council.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.