David Warthen
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David Warthen is an American technologist and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and early technical leader of the Ask Jeeves search engine.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Warthen canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5557753 — 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: David Warthen Context triple: [Ask Jeeves, foundedBy, David Warthen]
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A.
Ryan Dusick
Ryan Dusick is an American musician best known as the original drummer and a founding member of the pop rock band Maroon 5.
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B.
Chris Chalk
Chris Chalk is an American actor known for his work in film, television, and theater, including roles in projects like "12 Years a Slave," "Gotham," and "When They See Us."
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C.
Brian Routh
Brian Routh was a British performance artist and musician best known as one half of the avant-garde comedy and performance duo The Kipper Kids.
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D.
Keith Poulson
Keith Poulson is an American actor known for his work in independent films and for roles in offbeat, character-driven movies.
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E.
Josh Heird
Josh Heird is a collegiate athletics administrator who serves as the athletic director overseeing the University of Louisville’s sports programs.
- 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: David Warthen Target entity description: David Warthen is an American technologist and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and early technical leader of the Ask Jeeves search engine.
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A.
Ryan Dusick
Ryan Dusick is an American musician best known as the original drummer and a founding member of the pop rock band Maroon 5.
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B.
Chris Chalk
Chris Chalk is an American actor known for his work in film, television, and theater, including roles in projects like "12 Years a Slave," "Gotham," and "When They See Us."
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C.
Brian Routh
Brian Routh was a British performance artist and musician best known as one half of the avant-garde comedy and performance duo The Kipper Kids.
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D.
Keith Poulson
Keith Poulson is an American actor known for his work in independent films and for roles in offbeat, character-driven movies.
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E.
Josh Heird
Josh Heird is a collegiate athletics administrator who serves as the athletic director overseeing the University of Louisville’s sports programs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
entrepreneur
ⓘ
person ⓘ software engineer ⓘ technologist ⓘ |
| basedIn |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
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| coFounded | Ask Jeeves NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
University of California, Berkeley ⓘ |
| employer | Ask Jeeves NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
information technology
ⓘ
internet ⓘ search engines ⓘ software development ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| hasRole | early technical leader of Ask Jeeves ⓘ |
| industry |
internet industry
ⓘ
technology industry ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Ask Jeeves
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
co-founding Ask Jeeves ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork | Ask Jeeves search engine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
chief technology officer
ⓘ
entrepreneur ⓘ software engineer ⓘ |
| positionHeld | chief technology officer of Ask Jeeves ⓘ |
| residence | San Francisco Bay Area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role | co-founder of Ask Jeeves ⓘ |
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: David Warthen Description of subject: David Warthen is an American technologist and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and early technical leader of the Ask Jeeves search engine.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Ask Jeeves