Glen Taylor
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Glen Taylor is an American billionaire businessman and politician best known as the longtime owner of the NBA’s Minnesota Timberwolves and WNBA’s Minnesota Lynx.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Glen Taylor canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1491767 — 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: Glen Taylor Context triple: [Minnesota Lynx, owner, Glen Taylor]
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A.
Glenn Williamson
Glenn Williamson is a film producer known for his work on independent and character-driven movies, including the dark comedy-drama "Sunshine Cleaning."
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B.
Glen Graham
Glen Graham is an American rock drummer best known as the percussionist for the alternative rock band Blind Melon.
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C.
Gordon Mitchell
Gordon Mitchell is the son of renowned British aeronautical engineer R. J. Mitchell, designer of the Supermarine Spitfire.
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D.
Gordon Carroll
Gordon Carroll was an American film producer best known for his work on influential movies such as "Alien."
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E.
Ken Ralston
Ken Ralston is an acclaimed visual effects supervisor known for his groundbreaking work on major films such as the Star Wars and Back to the Future series.
- 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: Glen Taylor Target entity description: Glen Taylor is an American billionaire businessman and politician best known as the longtime owner of the NBA’s Minnesota Timberwolves and WNBA’s Minnesota Lynx.
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A.
Glenn Williamson
Glenn Williamson is a film producer known for his work on independent and character-driven movies, including the dark comedy-drama "Sunshine Cleaning."
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B.
Glen Graham
Glen Graham is an American rock drummer best known as the percussionist for the alternative rock band Blind Melon.
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C.
Gordon Mitchell
Gordon Mitchell is the son of renowned British aeronautical engineer R. J. Mitchell, designer of the Supermarine Spitfire.
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D.
Gordon Carroll
Gordon Carroll was an American film producer best known for his work on influential movies such as "Alien."
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E.
Ken Ralston
Ken Ralston is an acclaimed visual effects supervisor known for his groundbreaking work on major films such as the Star Wars and Back to the Future series.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
billionaire
ⓘ
businessperson ⓘ human ⓘ politician ⓘ sports team owner ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1941-04-20 ⓘ |
| birthName | Glen Allen Taylor ⓘ |
| birthYear | 1941 ⓘ |
| businessInterest |
printing industry
ⓘ
publishing industry ⓘ sports franchises ⓘ |
| continentOfBirth | North America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard Business School
ⓘ
surface form:
Harvard Business School executive program
Minnesota State University ⓘ
surface form:
Minnesota State University, Mankato
|
| employer | Taylor Corporation ⓘ |
| familyName | Taylor ⓘ |
| founded | Taylor Corporation ⓘ |
| givenName | Glen ⓘ |
| hasChild | multiple children ⓘ |
| leagueAffiliation |
National Basketball Association
ⓘ
Women’s National Basketball Association ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Republican Party ⓘ |
| name | Glen Taylor self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| netWorth | over 1 billion US dollars ⓘ |
| notableFor |
ownership of the Minnesota Lynx
ⓘ
ownership of the Minnesota Timberwolves ⓘ |
| notableResidenceRegion |
southern Minnesota
ⓘ
surface form:
Southern Minnesota
|
| occupation |
businessman
ⓘ
entrepreneur ⓘ politician ⓘ sports executive ⓘ |
| owns |
Iowa Energy
ⓘ
surface form:
Iowa Energy (former NBA D-League team)
Minnesota Lynx ⓘ Minnesota Timberwolves ⓘ Minneapolis Star and Tribune ⓘ
surface form:
Star Tribune
|
| placeOfBirth | Comfrey, Minnesota ⓘ |
| politicalActivity |
Republican Party donor
ⓘ
served in the Minnesota Senate ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
member of the Minnesota Senate
ⓘ
owner of the Minnesota Lynx ⓘ owner of the Minnesota Timberwolves ⓘ |
| residence |
Mankato, Minnesota
ⓘ
Minnesota ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Becky Taylor ⓘ |
| stateOfBirth | Minnesota ⓘ |
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: Glen Taylor Description of subject: Glen Taylor is an American billionaire businessman and politician best known as the longtime owner of the NBA’s Minnesota Timberwolves and WNBA’s Minnesota Lynx.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.