Will Poole
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Will Poole is an American technology executive and impact investor known for his leadership roles at Microsoft and his work in social entrepreneurship and inclusive innovation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Will Poole canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1163200 — 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: Will Poole Context triple: [Lakeside School, hasAlumnus, Will Poole]
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A.
Jacob Poole
Jacob Poole was a 19th-century Irish scholar best known for compiling and preserving the vocabulary and records of the now-extinct Yola language of County Wexford.
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B.
Alexander Parris
Alexander Parris was a prominent 19th-century American architect and engineer best known for his austere Greek Revival and early granite public buildings in New England.
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C.
Marc Eversley
Marc Eversley is a Canadian basketball executive known for serving as the general manager of the NBA’s Chicago Bulls.
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D.
Sam Wheeler
Sam Wheeler is the father of Ted Wheeler, the mayor of Portland, Oregon.
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E.
Rufus Pollock
Rufus Pollock is a British economist, technologist, and open data advocate best known as a co-founder and leading figure in the global open knowledge and open government data movements.
- 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: Will Poole Target entity description: Will Poole is an American technology executive and impact investor known for his leadership roles at Microsoft and his work in social entrepreneurship and inclusive innovation.
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A.
Jacob Poole
Jacob Poole was a 19th-century Irish scholar best known for compiling and preserving the vocabulary and records of the now-extinct Yola language of County Wexford.
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B.
Alexander Parris
Alexander Parris was a prominent 19th-century American architect and engineer best known for his austere Greek Revival and early granite public buildings in New England.
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C.
Marc Eversley
Marc Eversley is a Canadian basketball executive known for serving as the general manager of the NBA’s Chicago Bulls.
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D.
Sam Wheeler
Sam Wheeler is the father of Ted Wheeler, the mayor of Portland, Oregon.
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E.
Rufus Pollock
Rufus Pollock is a British economist, technologist, and open data advocate best known as a co-founder and leading figure in the global open knowledge and open government data movements.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
entrepreneur
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human ⓘ impact investor ⓘ technology executive ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Microsoft ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
impact investing
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inclusive innovation ⓘ information technology ⓘ social entrepreneurship ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasRole |
business leader
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investor ⓘ social entrepreneur ⓘ |
| industry | technology industry ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableActivity |
promoting inclusive innovation
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supporting social enterprises ⓘ |
| notableFor |
leadership roles at Microsoft
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work in inclusive innovation ⓘ work in social entrepreneurship ⓘ |
| occupation |
entrepreneur
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impact investor ⓘ technology executive ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
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: Will Poole Description of subject: Will Poole is an American technology executive and impact investor known for his leadership roles at Microsoft and his work in social entrepreneurship and inclusive innovation.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.