Tom Gonser
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Tom Gonser is an American entrepreneur best known as the founder of DocuSign, a leading electronic signature and digital transaction management company.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tom Gonser canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7931039 — 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: Tom Gonser Context triple: [DocuSign, foundedBy, Tom Gonser]
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A.
Jay Gorney
Jay Gorney was an American composer best known for writing socially conscious songs for Broadway and film, including the music for the classic Depression-era anthem "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?"
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B.
Alex Gartner
Alex Gartner is a film producer known for his work on major Hollywood projects, including the action thriller "Triple Frontier."
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C.
Eric Lamonsoff
Eric Lamonsoff is a bumbling yet big-hearted family man and close friend of Lenny Feder in the Grown Ups comedy film series.
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D.
Lee Garmes
Lee Garmes was an American cinematographer renowned for his innovative lighting and camera techniques in early Hollywood cinema, including his Academy Award-winning work on "Shanghai Express."
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E.
Daren Kagasoff
Daren Kagasoff is an American actor best known for his starring role as Ricky Underwood on the teen drama series "The Secret Life of the American Teenager."
- 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: Tom Gonser Target entity description: Tom Gonser is an American entrepreneur best known as the founder of DocuSign, a leading electronic signature and digital transaction management company.
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A.
Jay Gorney
Jay Gorney was an American composer best known for writing socially conscious songs for Broadway and film, including the music for the classic Depression-era anthem "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?"
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B.
Alex Gartner
Alex Gartner is a film producer known for his work on major Hollywood projects, including the action thriller "Triple Frontier."
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C.
Eric Lamonsoff
Eric Lamonsoff is a bumbling yet big-hearted family man and close friend of Lenny Feder in the Grown Ups comedy film series.
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D.
Lee Garmes
Lee Garmes was an American cinematographer renowned for his innovative lighting and camera techniques in early Hollywood cinema, including his Academy Award-winning work on "Shanghai Express."
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E.
Daren Kagasoff
Daren Kagasoff is an American actor best known for his starring role as Ricky Underwood on the teen drama series "The Secret Life of the American Teenager."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
businessperson
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entrepreneur ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
cloud-based contract management
ⓘ
electronic document workflows ⓘ |
| basedIn | Pacific Northwest, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| businessSector |
enterprise software
ⓘ
legal tech ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Oregon State University
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
University of Washington ⓘ |
| employer | DocuSign NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
digital transaction management
ⓘ
electronic signatures ⓘ software industry ⓘ |
| founded | DocuSign NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDegree | degree in business ⓘ |
| hasAchievement |
pioneering mainstream adoption of e-signatures
ⓘ
scaling DocuSign to global usage ⓘ |
| hasActivity |
public speaking on digital transformation
ⓘ
public speaking on entrepreneurship ⓘ |
| hasNotableWork | development of DocuSign eSignature platform ⓘ |
| hasRole |
startup advisor
ⓘ
technology founder ⓘ |
| inceptionOfFoundedOrganization | DocuSign, 2003 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| industry |
SaaS
ⓘ
technology ⓘ |
| knownFor |
digital transaction management
ⓘ
electronic signature technology ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | technology startup community in Seattle ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | founding DocuSign ⓘ |
| occupation |
business executive
ⓘ
entrepreneur ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Chief Strategy Officer of DocuSign
ⓘ
founder of DocuSign ⓘ |
| residence | Seattle, Washington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Tom Gonser Description of subject: Tom Gonser is an American entrepreneur best known as the founder of DocuSign, a leading electronic signature and digital transaction management company.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.