Sean Plaice
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Sean Plaice is an entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the on-demand delivery service Postmates.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sean Plaice canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1460999 — 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: Sean Plaice Context triple: [Postmates, foundedBy, Sean Plaice]
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A.
Sean Kilpatrick
Sean Kilpatrick is an American professional basketball player known for his scoring ability as a guard in the NBA and overseas leagues.
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B.
Matthew Shoemaker
Matthew Shoemaker is a Canadian municipal politician serving as the mayor of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.
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C.
Chris Stolte
Chris Stolte is a computer scientist and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and former chief development officer of the data visualization company Tableau Software.
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D.
Kevin Swanson
Kevin Swanson is a recurring character on the animated TV show "Family Guy," known as the paraplegic son of Joe and Bonnie Swanson.
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E.
Matt Hulett
Matt Hulett is an American technology and business executive known for leading and scaling multiple software and digital media companies.
- 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: Sean Plaice Target entity description: Sean Plaice is an entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the on-demand delivery service Postmates.
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A.
Sean Kilpatrick
Sean Kilpatrick is an American professional basketball player known for his scoring ability as a guard in the NBA and overseas leagues.
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B.
Matthew Shoemaker
Matthew Shoemaker is a Canadian municipal politician serving as the mayor of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.
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C.
Chris Stolte
Chris Stolte is a computer scientist and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and former chief development officer of the data visualization company Tableau Software.
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D.
Kevin Swanson
Kevin Swanson is a recurring character on the animated TV show "Family Guy," known as the paraplegic son of Joe and Bonnie Swanson.
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E.
Matt Hulett
Matt Hulett is an American technology and business executive known for leading and scaling multiple software and digital media companies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
businessperson
ⓘ
entrepreneur ⓘ on-demand delivery service ⓘ |
| coFounderOf | Postmates ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| industry | delivery ⓘ |
| knownFor | co-founding Postmates ⓘ |
| notableWork | Postmates ⓘ |
| occupation | entrepreneur ⓘ |
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: Sean Plaice Description of subject: Sean Plaice is an entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the on-demand delivery service Postmates.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.