Paul Forster
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Paul Forster is an entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the global job search engine Indeed.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Paul Forster canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1611563 — 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: Paul Forster Context triple: [Indeed, foundedBy, Paul Forster]
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A.
Charles Sporck
Charles Sporck is an American engineer and executive best known for leading National Semiconductor to become a major force in the global semiconductor industry after an early career at Fairchild Semiconductor.
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B.
Brian Faulkner
Brian Faulkner was a prominent Northern Irish politician who served as the last Prime Minister of Northern Ireland before the government’s suspension in 1972.
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C.
Jeff Foster
Jeff Foster is an entrepreneur best known for founding the global athletic footwear and apparel brand Reebok.
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D.
Paul Owens
Paul Owens was a longtime Philadelphia Phillies executive and manager who helped build and lead the franchise to its first era of sustained success in the 1970s and early 1980s.
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E.
Fred Williamson
Fred Williamson is an American actor and former professional football player best known for his roles in 1970s blaxploitation films and numerous action and genre movies.
- 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: Paul Forster Target entity description: Paul Forster is an entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the global job search engine Indeed.
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A.
Charles Sporck
Charles Sporck is an American engineer and executive best known for leading National Semiconductor to become a major force in the global semiconductor industry after an early career at Fairchild Semiconductor.
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B.
Brian Faulkner
Brian Faulkner was a prominent Northern Irish politician who served as the last Prime Minister of Northern Ireland before the government’s suspension in 1972.
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C.
Paul Owens
Paul Owens was a longtime Philadelphia Phillies executive and manager who helped build and lead the franchise to its first era of sustained success in the 1970s and early 1980s.
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D.
Fred Williamson
Fred Williamson is an American actor and former professional football player best known for his roles in 1970s blaxploitation films and numerous action and genre movies.
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E.
Keith Foulke
Keith Foulke is a former Major League Baseball relief pitcher best known as the Boston Red Sox closer who played a pivotal role in their 2004 World Series championship run.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
businessperson
ⓘ
entrepreneur ⓘ |
| alumniOf |
Cambridge University
ⓘ
surface form:
University of Cambridge
Yale School of Management ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
job search engines
ⓘ
online job search ⓘ |
| basedIn |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| businessRegion | global ⓘ |
| coFounded | Indeed, Inc. ⓘ |
| coFoundedWith | Rony Kahan ⓘ |
| coFounderOf |
Indeed
ⓘ
Jobsinthemoney ⓘ |
| countryOfBusinessActivity |
United Kingdom
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| educatedAt |
Cambridge University
ⓘ
surface form:
University of Cambridge
Yale School of Management ⓘ |
| employer | Indeed ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy |
business
ⓘ
management ⓘ |
| founded | Jobsinthemoney ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDegree | MBA ⓘ |
| hasRole |
startup founder
ⓘ
technology entrepreneur ⓘ |
| industry |
internet
ⓘ
online recruitment ⓘ |
| knownFor | co-founding Indeed ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableCompany | Indeed ⓘ |
| notableWork | building Indeed into a leading job search engine ⓘ |
| occupation |
company executive
ⓘ
entrepreneur ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Chief Executive Officer of Indeed ⓘ |
| residence |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
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: Paul Forster Description of subject: Paul Forster is an entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the global job search engine Indeed.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.