Curtis L. Carlson

E382564
businessperson company founder entrepreneur human

Curtis L. Carlson was an American entrepreneur and founder of Carlson Companies, a global hospitality and travel conglomerate.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Curtis L. Carlson canonical 1
Curtis Leroy Carlson 1

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf businessperson ⓘ
company founder ⓘ
entrepreneur ⓘ
human ⓘ
awardReceived Horatio Alger Award ⓘ
University of Minnesota Outstanding Achievement Award ⓘ
basedIn Minnetonka ⓘ
surface form: Minnetonka, Minnesota, United States
businessDomain hotels ⓘ
marketing services ⓘ
restaurants ⓘ
travel services ⓘ
causeOfDeath stroke ⓘ
child Marilyn Carlson Nelson ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship United States of America ⓘ
dateOfBirth 1914-07-09 ⓘ
dateOfDeath 1999-02-19 ⓘ
educatedAt University of Minnesota ⓘ
University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management ⓘ
employer Carlson Companies ⓘ
familyName Carlson ⓘ
fieldOfWork hospitality industry ⓘ
marketing ⓘ
travel industry ⓘ
founded Carlson Companies ⓘ
fullName Curtis L. Carlson self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Curtis Leroy Carlson
givenName Curtis ⓘ
hasParticularSignificance namesake of the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota ⓘ
knownFor founding Carlson Companies ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName English ⓘ
memberOf Republican Party ⓘ
surface form: Republican Party (United States)
notableAchievement expanded Carlson Companies into a global hospitality and travel conglomerate ⓘ
notableWork Carlson Companies ⓘ
occupation business executive ⓘ
company founder ⓘ
entrepreneur ⓘ
philanthropicFocus business education ⓘ
higher education ⓘ
placeOfBirth Minneapolis ⓘ
surface form: Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
placeOfDeath Minneapolis ⓘ
surface form: Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
positionHeld chairman of Carlson Companies ⓘ
chief executive of Carlson Companies ⓘ
religion Lutheranism ⓘ
residence Minnesota ⓘ
surface form: Minnesota, United States
sexOrGender male ⓘ
spouse Arleen C. Carlson ⓘ

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: Curtis L. Carlson
Description of subject: Curtis L. Carlson was an American entrepreneur and founder of Carlson Companies, a global hospitality and travel conglomerate.

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Carlson School of Management → namedAfter → Curtis L. Carlson ⓘ
Curtis L. Carlson → fullName → Curtis L. Carlson self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Curtis Leroy Carlson