Rich Kleiman
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business executive
entrepreneur
human
investment firm
sports agent
sports and entertainment media company
Rich Kleiman is an American sports agent and entrepreneur best known as Kevin Durant’s longtime business partner and co-founder of the sports and entertainment company Boardroom and the investment firm Thirty Five Ventures.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rich Kleiman canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T555725 — 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: Rich Kleiman Context triple: [Kevin Durant, coFounder, Rich Kleiman]
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A.
Michael Klein
Michael Klein is the father of Canadian author and activist Naomi Klein.
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B.
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.
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C.
Jeremy Kleiner
Jeremy Kleiner is an American film producer known for his work on acclaimed films such as the civil rights drama "Selma."
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D.
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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E.
David Zuckerman
David Zuckerman is an American television producer and writer best known for his work on animated comedy series, including helping develop and produce the hit show Family Guy.
- 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: Rich Kleiman Target entity description: Rich Kleiman is an American sports agent and entrepreneur best known as Kevin Durant’s longtime business partner and co-founder of the sports and entertainment company Boardroom and the investment firm Thirty Five Ventures.
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A.
Michael Klein
Michael Klein is the father of Canadian author and activist Naomi Klein.
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B.
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.
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C.
Jeremy Kleiner
Jeremy Kleiner is an American film producer known for his work on acclaimed films such as the civil rights drama "Selma."
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D.
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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E.
David Zuckerman
David Zuckerman is an American television producer and writer best known for his work on animated comedy series, including helping develop and produce the hit show Family Guy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
business executive
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entrepreneur ⓘ human ⓘ investment firm ⓘ sports agent ⓘ sports and entertainment media company ⓘ |
| basedIn | New York City ⓘ |
| businessFocus |
early-stage venture investments
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media and content production ⓘ sports investments ⓘ |
| businessPartner | Kevin Durant ⓘ |
| coFounder |
Kevin Durant
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Kevin Durant ⓘ Rich Kleiman self-linksurface differs ⓘ Rich Kleiman self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| coFounderOf |
The Boardroom
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surface form:
Boardroom
Thirty Five Ventures ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer |
The Boardroom
ⓘ
surface form:
Boardroom
Thirty Five Ventures ⓘ |
| foundedWith | Kevin Durant ⓘ |
| hasRole |
investor
ⓘ
podcast host ⓘ talent manager ⓘ |
| industry |
entertainment industry
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media industry ⓘ sports business ⓘ sports media ⓘ venture capital ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being Kevin Durant’s longtime business partner
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co-founding Boardroom ⓘ co-founding Thirty Five Ventures ⓘ |
| notableWork |
The Boardroom
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surface form:
The Boardroom (media platform)
The ETCs with Kevin Durant (podcast) ⓘ |
| occupation |
business manager
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entrepreneur ⓘ sports agent ⓘ sports marketing executive ⓘ television producer ⓘ |
| partnerOf | Kevin Durant ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
CEO of Boardroom
ⓘ
co-CEO of Thirty Five Ventures ⓘ |
| workedWith |
Roc Nation
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surface form:
Roc Nation Sports
|
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: Rich Kleiman Description of subject: Rich Kleiman is an American sports agent and entrepreneur best known as Kevin Durant’s longtime business partner and co-founder of the sports and entertainment company Boardroom and the investment firm Thirty Five Ventures.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Thirty Five Ventures
subject surface form:
Boardroom