David Schmaier
E168420
David Schmaier is a technology executive and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of Siebel Systems, a pioneering customer relationship management (CRM) software company.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Schmaier canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1015791 — 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 Schmaier Context triple: [Siebel Systems, foundedBy, David Schmaier]
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A.
Eric D. Schneider
Eric D. Schneider was a scientist and author known for his work on thermodynamics and complex systems, particularly in collaboration with Dorion Sagan.
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B.
John Boettiger
John Boettiger was an American journalist and newspaper publisher best known as the second husband of Anna Roosevelt, daughter of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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C.
Martin J. Hillenbrand
Martin J. Hillenbrand was an American career diplomat who held several key Cold War-era posts, including serving as U.S. Ambassador to Hungary and later to the Federal Republic of Germany.
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D.
Bruce T. Draine
Bruce T. Draine is an American astrophysicist renowned for his influential work on interstellar dust and the interstellar medium.
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E.
Martin Klotz
Martin Klotz was an Austrian mountaineer known for being one of the first climbers to reach the summit of the Grossglockner, Austria’s highest peak.
- 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 Schmaier Target entity description: David Schmaier is a technology executive and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of Siebel Systems, a pioneering customer relationship management (CRM) software company.
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A.
Eric D. Schneider
Eric D. Schneider was a scientist and author known for his work on thermodynamics and complex systems, particularly in collaboration with Dorion Sagan.
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B.
John Boettiger
John Boettiger was an American journalist and newspaper publisher best known as the second husband of Anna Roosevelt, daughter of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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C.
Martin J. Hillenbrand
Martin J. Hillenbrand was an American career diplomat who held several key Cold War-era posts, including serving as U.S. Ambassador to Hungary and later to the Federal Republic of Germany.
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D.
Bruce T. Draine
Bruce T. Draine is an American astrophysicist renowned for his influential work on interstellar dust and the interstellar medium.
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E.
Martin Klotz
Martin Klotz was an Austrian mountaineer known for being one of the first climbers to reach the summit of the Grossglockner, Austria’s highest peak.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
entrepreneur
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person ⓘ software company ⓘ technology executive ⓘ |
| coFounded | Siebel Systems ⓘ |
| coFounder | David Schmaier self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| field |
customer relationship management
ⓘ
enterprise software ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasExpertise |
CRM applications
ⓘ
enterprise applications ⓘ software-as-a-service business models ⓘ |
| industry | customer relationship management software ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-founding Siebel Systems
ⓘ
work in customer relationship management software ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notability | pioneer in CRM software industry ⓘ |
| notableFor |
leadership in CRM software companies
ⓘ
pioneering CRM software products ⓘ |
| notableRole | early leader at Siebel Systems ⓘ |
| occupation |
business executive
ⓘ
software entrepreneur ⓘ |
| worksIn |
software industry
ⓘ
technology industry ⓘ |
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 Schmaier Description of subject: David Schmaier is a technology executive and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of Siebel Systems, a pioneering customer relationship management (CRM) software company.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Siebel Systems