Adam Pisoni
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Adam Pisoni is an American entrepreneur and technology executive best known as the co-founder and former CTO of the enterprise social networking company Yammer.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Adam Pisoni canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2555194 — 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: Adam Pisoni Context triple: [Yammer, foundedBy, Adam Pisoni]
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A.
Eric Pleskow
Eric Pleskow was an Austrian-born American film executive and producer best known for leading major studios and co-founding the influential independent film company Orion Pictures.
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B.
Joel Ventresca
Joel Ventresca is a San Francisco-based political figure and longtime city employee known for his progressive activism and multiple campaigns for mayor.
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C.
Andrew Goczkowski
Andrew Goczkowski is an American local government leader serving as the mayor of Des Plaines, Illinois.
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D.
Michael Potts
Michael Potts is an American actor known for his work in film, television, and theater, including notable roles in projects like "The Wire," "True Detective," and various Broadway productions.
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E.
Andrew DeLuca
Andrew DeLuca is a fictional surgical resident and later attending surgeon on the television series Grey’s Anatomy, known for his complex personal struggles and romantic relationships with key characters.
- 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: Adam Pisoni Target entity description: Adam Pisoni is an American entrepreneur and technology executive best known as the co-founder and former CTO of the enterprise social networking company Yammer.
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A.
Eric Pleskow
Eric Pleskow was an Austrian-born American film executive and producer best known for leading major studios and co-founding the influential independent film company Orion Pictures.
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B.
Joel Ventresca
Joel Ventresca is a San Francisco-based political figure and longtime city employee known for his progressive activism and multiple campaigns for mayor.
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C.
Andrew Goczkowski
Andrew Goczkowski is an American local government leader serving as the mayor of Des Plaines, Illinois.
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D.
Michael Potts
Michael Potts is an American actor known for his work in film, television, and theater, including notable roles in projects like "The Wire," "True Detective," and various Broadway productions.
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E.
Andrew DeLuca
Andrew DeLuca is a fictional surgical resident and later attending surgeon on the television series Grey’s Anatomy, known for his complex personal struggles and romantic relationships with key characters.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
entrepreneur
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person ⓘ software engineer ⓘ technology executive ⓘ |
| coFounded | Yammer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer |
Microsoft
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Yammer ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
collaboration software
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enterprise social networking ⓘ software as a service ⓘ |
| hasExpertise |
enterprise software
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social collaboration tools ⓘ startup management ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| hasGivenTalkAt | technology conferences ⓘ |
| industry | technology industry ⓘ |
| isAlive | true ⓘ |
| knownFor | co-founding Yammer ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableEvent | acquisition of Yammer by Microsoft ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Yammer
ⓘ
surface form:
Yammer enterprise social networking platform
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| occupation |
chief technology officer
ⓘ
entrepreneur ⓘ software developer ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Chief Technology Officer of Yammer ⓘ |
| residence | San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ |
| roleAfterAcquisition | continued as Yammer CTO under Microsoft ownership ⓘ |
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: Adam Pisoni Description of subject: Adam Pisoni is an American entrepreneur and technology executive best known as the co-founder and former CTO of the enterprise social networking company Yammer.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.