Wilmot Reed
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Wilmot Reed is the given first and middle name of Reed Hastings, the American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and former CEO of Netflix.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Wilmot Reed canonical | 2 |
| Wilmot Reed Hastings | 2 |
| Wilmot Reed Hastings Jr. | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T956490 — 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: Wilmot Reed Context triple: [Reed Hastings, givenName, Wilmot Reed]
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A.
Gulian McEvers
Gulian McEvers was an early American merchant and broker in New York City who was among the original founders of what became the New York Stock Exchange.
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B.
Simeon Gannett Reed
Simeon Gannett Reed was an American businessman and philanthropist whose endowment led to the creation of Reed College in Portland, Oregon.
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C.
Abner Nash
Abner Nash was an American lawyer and politician who served as the second governor of North Carolina during the Revolutionary War era.
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D.
Samuel March
Samuel March was one of the early New York stockbrokers who helped found what became the New York Stock Exchange by signing the 1792 Buttonwood Agreement.
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E.
Mordecai Brown
Mordecai Brown was a Hall of Fame Major League Baseball pitcher, nicknamed "Three Finger," renowned for his exceptional control and success with the Chicago Cubs in the early 20th century.
- 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: Wilmot Reed Target entity description: Wilmot Reed is the given first and middle name of Reed Hastings, the American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and former CEO of Netflix.
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A.
Gulian McEvers
Gulian McEvers was an early American merchant and broker in New York City who was among the original founders of what became the New York Stock Exchange.
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B.
Simeon Gannett Reed
Simeon Gannett Reed was an American businessman and philanthropist whose endowment led to the creation of Reed College in Portland, Oregon.
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C.
Abner Nash
Abner Nash was an American lawyer and politician who served as the second governor of North Carolina during the Revolutionary War era.
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D.
Samuel March
Samuel March was one of the early New York stockbrokers who helped found what became the New York Stock Exchange by signing the 1792 Buttonwood Agreement.
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E.
Mordecai Brown
Mordecai Brown was a Hall of Fame Major League Baseball pitcher, nicknamed "Three Finger," renowned for his exceptional control and success with the Chicago Cubs in the early 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
given name
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| birthName |
Wilmot Reed
self-link
ⓘ
surface form:
Wilmot Reed Hastings
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Bowdoin College
ⓘ
Stanford University ⓘ |
| employer | Netflix ⓘ |
| familyName | Hastings ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy |
computer science
ⓘ
mathematics ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Wilmot ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Wilmot Reed self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| industry |
entertainment
ⓘ
technology ⓘ |
| knownFor |
DVD-by-mail rental business model
ⓘ
subscription-based streaming service innovation ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Democratic Party
ⓘ
surface form:
Democratic Party (United States)
|
| middleName | Reed ⓘ |
| name | Reed Hastings ⓘ |
| notableFor | co-founding Netflix ⓘ |
| occupation |
business executive
ⓘ
entrepreneur ⓘ |
| partOfNameOf |
Wilmot Reed
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Wilmot Reed Hastings
|
| positionHeld |
chief executive officer of Netflix
ⓘ
co-founder of Netflix ⓘ executive chairman of Netflix ⓘ |
| residence |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
|
| usedBy | Reed Hastings ⓘ |
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: Wilmot Reed Description of subject: Wilmot Reed is the given first and middle name of Reed Hastings, the American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and former CEO of Netflix.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Wilmot Reed Hastings Jr.
subject surface form:
Wilmot Reed Hastings
this entity surface form:
Wilmot Reed Hastings
subject surface form:
Wilmot Reed Hastings
this entity surface form:
Wilmot Reed Hastings