Jack Dorsey
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Jack Dorsey is an American technology entrepreneur and programmer best known as the co-founder and former CEO of Twitter and the founder and CEO of Block, Inc.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jack Dorsey canonical | 17 |
| Jack Patrick Dorsey | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T146689 — 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: Jack Dorsey Context triple: [Twitter, Inc., foundedBy, Jack Dorsey]
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A.
Chris Hughes
Chris Hughes is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as one of the co-founders of Facebook and a former owner of The New Republic magazine.
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B.
Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg is an American technology entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as the co-founder and CEO of Facebook (now Meta Platforms).
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C.
Elon Musk
Elon Musk is a billionaire entrepreneur and engineer best known for founding SpaceX, leading Tesla, and driving innovation in electric vehicles, space exploration, and other frontier technologies.
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D.
Peter Thiel
Peter Thiel is a German-American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and political activist best known as a co-founder of PayPal and an early investor in Facebook.
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E.
Sam Altman
Sam Altman is an American entrepreneur and investor best known as the former president of Y Combinator and a leading figure in the development and governance of artificial intelligence.
- 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: Jack Dorsey Target entity description: Jack Dorsey is an American technology entrepreneur and programmer best known as the co-founder and former CEO of Twitter and the founder and CEO of Block, Inc.
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A.
Chris Hughes
Chris Hughes is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as one of the co-founders of Facebook and a former owner of The New Republic magazine.
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B.
Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg is an American technology entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as the co-founder and CEO of Facebook (now Meta Platforms).
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C.
Elon Musk
Elon Musk is a billionaire entrepreneur and engineer best known for founding SpaceX, leading Tesla, and driving innovation in electric vehicles, space exploration, and other frontier technologies.
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D.
Peter Thiel
Peter Thiel is a German-American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and political activist best known as a co-founder of PayPal and an early investor in Facebook.
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E.
Sam Altman
Sam Altman is an American entrepreneur and investor best known as the former president of Y Combinator and a leading figure in the development and governance of artificial intelligence.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
business executive
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computer programmer ⓘ entrepreneur ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activeIn | 21st century ⓘ |
| boardMemberOf |
Block, Inc.
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Twitter, Inc. ⓘ
surface form:
Twitter
|
| coFounded |
Square, Inc.
ⓘ
Twitter, Inc. ⓘ
surface form:
Twitter
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1976-11-19 ⓘ |
| education |
New York University
ⓘ
surface form:
New York University (attended)
University of Missouri–Rolla (attended) ⓘ |
| familyName | Dorsey ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
financial technology
ⓘ
mobile payments ⓘ social media ⓘ |
| founded |
Block, Inc.
ⓘ
Square, Inc. ⓘ |
| fullName |
Jack Dorsey
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Jack Patrick Dorsey
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| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Jack ⓘ |
| hasRole |
co-founder of Twitter
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founder of Block, Inc. ⓘ founder of Square ⓘ |
| industry |
financial services industry
ⓘ
technology industry ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-founding Twitter
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founding Square ⓘ leading Block, Inc. ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
helped popularize microblogging as a communication medium
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pioneered smartphone-based card payment solutions through Square ⓘ |
| notableWork |
development of Square mobile payment system
ⓘ
development of Twitter microblogging platform ⓘ |
| occupation |
chief executive officer
ⓘ
investor ⓘ software developer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | St. Louis, Missouri, United States ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
CEO of Block, Inc.
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CEO of Square, Inc. ⓘ CEO of Twitter ⓘ chairman of Twitter board ⓘ |
| residence |
San Francisco
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surface form:
San Francisco, California, United States
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| twitterUsername |
Jack
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surface form:
jack
|
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: Jack Dorsey Description of subject: Jack Dorsey is an American technology entrepreneur and programmer best known as the co-founder and former CEO of Twitter and the founder and CEO of Block, Inc.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Jack Patrick Dorsey
subject surface form:
Twitter
subject surface form:
Square, Inc.
subject surface form:
Block, Inc.
subject surface form:
Affton, Missouri