Nicole Shanahan
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Nicole Shanahan is an American attorney, legal tech entrepreneur, and philanthropist known for founding the patent management company ClearAccessIP and for her high-profile marriage to Google co-founder Sergey Brin.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nicole Shanahan canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T542258 — 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: Nicole Shanahan Context triple: [Sergey Brin, spouse, Nicole Shanahan]
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A.
Erin McDermott
Erin McDermott is a collegiate sports administrator best known as the athletic director at Harvard University.
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B.
Janel Moloney
Janel Moloney is an American actress best known for her role as Donna Moss on the political drama television series "The West Wing."
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C.
Bridget Moynahan
Bridget Moynahan is an American actress and model best known for her roles in films like "Coyote Ugly" and "I, Robot" and the TV series "Blue Bloods."
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D.
Colleen Sostorics
Colleen Sostorics is a Canadian former ice hockey defenceman and three-time Olympic gold medallist who starred with the national women’s team.
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E.
Shannon Briggs
Shannon Briggs is an American former professional boxer and two-time world heavyweight champion known for his powerful punching and outspoken personality.
- 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: Nicole Shanahan Target entity description: Nicole Shanahan is an American attorney, legal tech entrepreneur, and philanthropist known for founding the patent management company ClearAccessIP and for her high-profile marriage to Google co-founder Sergey Brin.
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A.
Erin McDermott
Erin McDermott is a collegiate sports administrator best known as the athletic director at Harvard University.
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B.
Janel Moloney
Janel Moloney is an American actress best known for her role as Donna Moss on the political drama television series "The West Wing."
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C.
Bridget Moynahan
Bridget Moynahan is an American actress and model best known for her roles in films like "Coyote Ugly" and "I, Robot" and the TV series "Blue Bloods."
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D.
Colleen Sostorics
Colleen Sostorics is a Canadian former ice hockey defenceman and three-time Olympic gold medallist who starred with the national women’s team.
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E.
Shannon Briggs
Shannon Briggs is an American former professional boxer and two-time world heavyweight champion known for his powerful punching and outspoken personality.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American businessperson
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attorney ⓘ entrepreneur ⓘ human ⓘ philanthropist ⓘ |
| citizenship | American ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Santa Clara University School of Law
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University of Puget Sound ⓘ |
| employer | ClearAccessIP ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
intellectual property law
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legal technology ⓘ patent management ⓘ |
| founded | ClearAccessIP ⓘ |
| givenName | Nicole ⓘ |
| hasOccupation |
legal tech entrepreneur
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patent expert ⓘ |
| hasPartner | Sergey Brin ⓘ |
| hasPhilanthropicFocus |
reproductive rights
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social justice ⓘ technology and society ⓘ |
| industry |
intellectual property services industry
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legal technology industry ⓘ |
| knownFor |
founding ClearAccessIP
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marriage to Sergey Brin ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Nicole Shanahan self-link ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
supporting various philanthropic initiatives in California
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work at the intersection of law and technology ⓘ |
| notableWork | development of patent management software at ClearAccessIP ⓘ |
| occupation |
attorney
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entrepreneur ⓘ philanthropist ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
chief executive officer of ClearAccessIP
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founder of ClearAccessIP ⓘ |
| residence |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
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| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| socialRole | philanthropist ⓘ |
| spouse | Sergey Brin ⓘ |
| workLocation |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
Silicon Valley ⓘ |
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: Nicole Shanahan Description of subject: Nicole Shanahan is an American attorney, legal tech entrepreneur, and philanthropist known for founding the patent management company ClearAccessIP and for her high-profile marriage to Google co-founder Sergey Brin.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.