Don Katz
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Don Katz is an American entrepreneur and author best known as the founder of the audiobook and spoken-word entertainment company Audible.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Don Katz canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1447422 — 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: Don Katz Context triple: [Audible, foundedBy, Don Katz]
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A.
Alan Baumgarten
Alan Baumgarten is an American film editor known for his work on a variety of feature films and television projects.
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B.
Norm Schachter
Norm Schachter was a prominent American football official best known for serving as the referee in the first three Super Bowls.
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C.
Rich Kleiman
Rich Kleiman is an American sports agent and entrepreneur best known as Kevin Durant’s longtime business partner and co-founder of the sports and entertainment company Boardroom and the investment firm Thirty Five Ventures.
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D.
Jonathan Kaplan
Jonathan Kaplan is an American film and television director best known for his work on the acclaimed 1988 courtroom drama "The Accused."
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E.
Michael Klein
Michael Klein is the father of Canadian author and activist Naomi Klein.
- 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: Don Katz Target entity description: Don Katz is an American entrepreneur and author best known as the founder of the audiobook and spoken-word entertainment company Audible.
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A.
Alan Baumgarten
Alan Baumgarten is an American film editor known for his work on a variety of feature films and television projects.
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B.
Norm Schachter
Norm Schachter was a prominent American football official best known for serving as the referee in the first three Super Bowls.
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C.
Rich Kleiman
Rich Kleiman is an American sports agent and entrepreneur best known as Kevin Durant’s longtime business partner and co-founder of the sports and entertainment company Boardroom and the investment firm Thirty Five Ventures.
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D.
Jonathan Kaplan
Jonathan Kaplan is an American film and television director best known for his work on the acclaimed 1988 courtroom drama "The Accused."
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E.
Michael Klein
Michael Klein is the father of Canadian author and activist Naomi Klein.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
author
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business executive ⓘ company ⓘ entrepreneur ⓘ human ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Audible ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
audio entertainment
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business ⓘ publishing ⓘ |
| founded | Audible ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasRole |
executive at Audible
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founder of Audible ⓘ |
| industry |
audiobooks
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spoken-word entertainment ⓘ |
| knownFor |
audiobook industry leadership
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founding Audible ⓘ spoken-word entertainment innovation ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Don Katz ⓘ |
| nationality | United States of America ⓘ |
| notableWork | business writings ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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businessperson ⓘ entrepreneur ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
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: Don Katz Description of subject: Don Katz is an American entrepreneur and author best known as the founder of the audiobook and spoken-word entertainment company Audible.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.