Nelson Chai
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Nelson Chai is a business executive and former Chief Financial Officer of Uber Technologies, known for his leadership roles in major financial and technology companies.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nelson Chai canonical | 1 |
| Nelson J. Chai | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T241682 — 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: Nelson Chai Context triple: [Uber, hasKeyPerson, Nelson Chai]
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A.
Tony Wu
Tony Wu is a member of the technical team at xAI, the artificial intelligence company founded by Elon Musk.
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B.
Joe Tsai
Joe Tsai is a Taiwanese-Canadian billionaire businessman and co-founder of Alibaba Group who owns the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets.
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C.
Fang-Howard Chang
Fang-Howard Chang is an engineer and innovator recognized with the prestigious Edison Medal for his significant contributions to electrical science and technology.
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D.
Hannibal Chau
Hannibal Chau is a flamboyant black-market dealer in kaiju organs from the film "Pacific Rim," known for his eccentric style and shady charisma.
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E.
Greg Yang
Greg Yang is a mathematician and AI researcher known for his work on the theoretical foundations of deep learning and his role at xAI.
- 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: Nelson Chai Target entity description: Nelson Chai is a business executive and former Chief Financial Officer of Uber Technologies, known for his leadership roles in major financial and technology companies.
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A.
Tony Wu
Tony Wu is a member of the technical team at xAI, the artificial intelligence company founded by Elon Musk.
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B.
Joe Tsai
Joe Tsai is a Taiwanese-Canadian billionaire businessman and co-founder of Alibaba Group who owns the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets.
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C.
Fang-Howard Chang
Fang-Howard Chang is an engineer and innovator recognized with the prestigious Edison Medal for his significant contributions to electrical science and technology.
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D.
Hannibal Chau
Hannibal Chau is a flamboyant black-market dealer in kaiju organs from the film "Pacific Rim," known for his eccentric style and shady charisma.
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E.
Greg Yang
Greg Yang is a mathematician and AI researcher known for his work on the theoretical foundations of deep learning and his role at xAI.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American businessperson
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business executive ⓘ chief financial officer ⓘ |
| boardMemberOf |
Thermo Fisher Scientific
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University of Pennsylvania ⓘ
surface form:
University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania ⓘ
surface form:
University of Pennsylvania Wharton Undergraduate Executive Board
|
| degree |
Bachelor of Arts in Economics
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Master of Business Administration ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
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surface form:
The Wharton School
University of Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| employer |
CIT Group
ⓘ
Merrill Lynch ⓘ Euronext ⓘ
surface form:
NYSE Euronext
New York Stock Exchange ⓘ Uber ⓘ
surface form:
Uber Technologies
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| fullName |
Nelson Chai
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Nelson J. Chai
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| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasExpertise |
capital markets
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corporate strategy ⓘ financial management ⓘ |
| hasRoleIn |
major financial institutions
ⓘ
technology companies ⓘ |
| industry |
finance
ⓘ
technology ⓘ |
| knownFor | serving as Chief Financial Officer of Uber Technologies ⓘ |
| nationality |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| notableWork | led Uber’s global finance organization during its transition as a public company ⓘ |
| occupation |
CFO
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corporate finance executive ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Chief Financial Officer of CIT Group
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Chief Financial Officer of Merrill Lynch ⓘ Chief Financial Officer of NYSE Euronext ⓘ Chief Financial Officer of Uber Technologies ⓘ Chief Financial Officer of the New York Stock Exchange ⓘ Executive Vice President of Merrill Lynch ⓘ Executive Vice President of the New York Stock Exchange ⓘ President of CIT Group ⓘ |
| startTime | 2018 ⓘ |
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: Nelson Chai Description of subject: Nelson Chai is a business executive and former Chief Financial Officer of Uber Technologies, known for his leadership roles in major financial and technology companies.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Nelson J. Chai