David Filo
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David Filo is an American billionaire entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of the web services company Yahoo!.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Filo canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13173440 — 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 Filo Context triple: [Ranelagh School, hasNotableAlumnus, David Filo]
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A.
John Filo
John Filo is an American photojournalist best known for his Pulitzer Prize–winning photograph capturing the aftermath of the Kent State shootings in 1970.
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B.
Jeff Marx
Jeff Marx is an American composer and lyricist best known for co-creating and co-writing the music and lyrics for the Tony Award–winning musical Avenue Q.
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C.
Nick Mitzevich
Nick Mitzevich is an Australian art curator and museum director known for leading major national art institutions, including the National Gallery of Australia.
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D.
Gary Gibbons
Gary Gibbons is a British theoretical physicist renowned for his contributions to general relativity, black hole physics, and cosmology.
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E.
Steve Pearlman
Steve Pearlman is a television producer best known for his work on various American drama series.
- 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 Filo Target entity description: David Filo is an American billionaire entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of the web services company Yahoo!.
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A.
John Filo
John Filo is an American photojournalist best known for his Pulitzer Prize–winning photograph capturing the aftermath of the Kent State shootings in 1970.
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B.
Jeff Marx
Jeff Marx is an American composer and lyricist best known for co-creating and co-writing the music and lyrics for the Tony Award–winning musical Avenue Q.
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C.
Nick Mitzevich
Nick Mitzevich is an Australian art curator and museum director known for leading major national art institutions, including the National Gallery of Australia.
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D.
Gary Gibbons
Gary Gibbons is a British theoretical physicist renowned for his contributions to general relativity, black hole physics, and cosmology.
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E.
Steve Pearlman
Steve Pearlman is a television producer best known for his work on various American drama series.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
ⓘ
billionaire ⓘ businessperson ⓘ entrepreneur ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activeFrom | 1990s ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Silicon Valley
ⓘ
World Wide Web development in the 1990s ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1966-04-20 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Wisconsin ⓘ |
| businessPartner | Jerry Yang ⓘ |
| coFounded |
Yahoo!
ⓘ
linked to:
Yahoo
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Stanford University
ⓘ
Tulane University ⓘ |
| employer |
Yahoo!
ⓘ
linked to:
Yahoo
|
| familyName | Filo ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy |
computer engineering
ⓘ
electrical engineering ⓘ |
| founded | Filo Family Foundation ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | David ⓘ |
| industry |
internet
ⓘ
technology ⓘ |
| knownFor | co-founding Yahoo! ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | David Filo ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| netWorthStatus | billionaire ⓘ |
| notableAward | induction into the Tulane University School of Engineering Hall of Fame ⓘ |
| notableProject | development of early Yahoo! infrastructure ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Yahoo! web directory
ⓘ
linked to:
Yahoo
|
| occupation |
computer engineer
ⓘ
entrepreneur ⓘ |
| philanthropicFocus |
education
ⓘ
environment ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Chief Yahoo ⓘ |
| residence |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
|
| spouse | Angela Buenning Filo ⓘ |
| typeOfBusinessFounded | web services company ⓘ |
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 Filo Description of subject: David Filo is an American billionaire entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of the web services company Yahoo!.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.