Ted Segal
E256519
association football club
businessperson
human
real estate investor
women's association football club
Ted Segal is an American real estate investor and businessman best known as the majority owner of Major League Soccer club Houston Dynamo FC and the NWSL’s Houston Dash.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ted Segal canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2317679 — 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: Ted Segal Context triple: [Houston Dynamo, owner, Ted Segal]
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A.
Steve Kipner
Steve Kipner is an Australian-American songwriter and producer best known for co-writing major pop hits such as Christina Aguilera’s “Genie in a Bottle.”
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B.
Sam Zussman
Sam Zussman is a sports and media executive who serves as a top business leader for the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets organization.
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C.
Rich Moore
Rich Moore is an American animation director and filmmaker best known for his work on acclaimed Disney films such as "Zootopia" and "Wreck-It Ralph."
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D.
Eric N. Jacobsen
Eric N. Jacobsen is an American chemist renowned for his pioneering work in asymmetric catalysis and chiral catalyst design.
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E.
Craig Greenberg
Craig Greenberg is an American businessman, attorney, and Democratic politician serving as the mayor of Louisville, Kentucky.
- 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: Ted Segal Target entity description: Ted Segal is an American real estate investor and businessman best known as the majority owner of Major League Soccer club Houston Dynamo FC and the NWSL’s Houston Dash.
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A.
Steve Kipner
Steve Kipner is an Australian-American songwriter and producer best known for co-writing major pop hits such as Christina Aguilera’s “Genie in a Bottle.”
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B.
Sam Zussman
Sam Zussman is a sports and media executive who serves as a top business leader for the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets organization.
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C.
Rich Moore
Rich Moore is an American animation director and filmmaker best known for his work on acclaimed Disney films such as "Zootopia" and "Wreck-It Ralph."
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D.
Eric N. Jacobsen
Eric N. Jacobsen is an American chemist renowned for his pioneering work in asymmetric catalysis and chiral catalyst design.
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E.
Craig Greenberg
Craig Greenberg is an American businessman, attorney, and Democratic politician serving as the mayor of Louisville, Kentucky.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (21)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
association football club
ⓘ
businessperson ⓘ human ⓘ real estate investor ⓘ women's association football club ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| industry | real estate ⓘ |
| knownFor |
majority ownership of Houston Dynamo FC
ⓘ
ownership of Houston Dash ⓘ |
| league |
Major League Soccer
ⓘ
National Women's Soccer League ⓘ |
| leagueAffiliationOfOwnedClub |
Major League Soccer
ⓘ
National Women's Soccer League ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessman
ⓘ
real estate investor ⓘ |
| owns |
Houston Dash
ⓘ
Houston Dynamo ⓘ
surface form:
Houston Dynamo FC
|
| position |
majority owner of Houston Dash
ⓘ
majority owner of Houston Dynamo FC ⓘ |
| sportOwnershipSector |
association football
ⓘ
women's association football ⓘ |
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: Ted Segal Description of subject: Ted Segal is an American real estate investor and businessman best known as the majority owner of Major League Soccer club Houston Dynamo FC and the NWSL’s Houston Dash.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.