Brent Frei
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Brent Frei is an American technology entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of the collaborative work management company Smartsheet.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Brent Frei canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6435251 — 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: Brent Frei Context triple: [Smartsheet, foundedBy, Brent Frei]
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A.
Derek Frey
Derek Frey is an American film producer best known for his long-time collaboration with director Tim Burton on numerous projects.
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B.
Sean Freeman
Sean Freeman is a contemporary graphic artist and illustrator known for his distinctive, atmospheric typography and cover art for books and other media.
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C.
Bryan Devendorf
Bryan Devendorf is an American drummer best known as a founding member and rhythmic backbone of the indie rock band The National.
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D.
Ken Schretzmann
Ken Schretzmann is a film editor known for his work on major animated features, including Guillermo del Toro's stop-motion adaptation of Pinocchio.
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E.
Scott Bradner
Scott Bradner is an American Internet engineer and longtime IETF leader known for his influential role in Internet standards development and governance.
- 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: Brent Frei Target entity description: Brent Frei is an American technology entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of the collaborative work management company Smartsheet.
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A.
Derek Frey
Derek Frey is an American film producer best known for his long-time collaboration with director Tim Burton on numerous projects.
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B.
Sean Freeman
Sean Freeman is a contemporary graphic artist and illustrator known for his distinctive, atmospheric typography and cover art for books and other media.
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C.
Bryan Devendorf
Bryan Devendorf is an American drummer best known as a founding member and rhythmic backbone of the indie rock band The National.
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D.
Ken Schretzmann
Ken Schretzmann is a film editor known for his work on major animated features, including Guillermo del Toro's stop-motion adaptation of Pinocchio.
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E.
Scott Bradner
Scott Bradner is an American Internet engineer and longtime IETF leader known for his influential role in Internet standards development and governance.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (23)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
collaborative work management platform
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company ⓘ entrepreneur ⓘ human ⓘ software company ⓘ |
| coFounded | Smartsheet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cloud computing
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information technology ⓘ software ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasRole | co-founder of Smartsheet ⓘ |
| industry |
collaborative work management software
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software-as-a-service ⓘ |
| knownFor | co-founding Smartsheet ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | collaborative work management software industry ⓘ |
| notableWork | Smartsheet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
business executive
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entrepreneur ⓘ software industry executive ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
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: Brent Frei Description of subject: Brent Frei is an American technology entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of the collaborative work management company Smartsheet.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.