Will Glaser
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Will Glaser is an American technologist and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the music streaming and recommendation service Pandora.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Will Glaser canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3419465 — 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: Will Glaser Context triple: [Pandora, foundedBy, Will Glaser]
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A.
Vaughan Glaser
Vaughan Glaser was an American character actor known for his supporting roles in stage and early 20th-century films.
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B.
Harry Kurnitz
Harry Kurnitz was an American playwright, novelist, and screenwriter known for his witty crime and mystery scripts in mid-20th-century Hollywood.
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C.
Victor Kilian
Victor Kilian was an American character actor known for his prolific work in film and television from the 1920s through the 1970s.
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D.
Howard Lasnik
Howard Lasnik is a prominent American linguist known for his influential work in generative syntax and his close collaboration with Noam Chomsky in developing contemporary syntactic theory.
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E.
Ivan Chermayeff
Ivan Chermayeff was a prominent American graphic designer and artist renowned for his influential corporate logos and visual identities, including work for major institutions and global brands.
- 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: Will Glaser Target entity description: Will Glaser is an American technologist and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the music streaming and recommendation service Pandora.
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A.
Vaughan Glaser
Vaughan Glaser was an American character actor known for his supporting roles in stage and early 20th-century films.
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B.
Harry Kurnitz
Harry Kurnitz was an American playwright, novelist, and screenwriter known for his witty crime and mystery scripts in mid-20th-century Hollywood.
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C.
Victor Kilian
Victor Kilian was an American character actor known for his prolific work in film and television from the 1920s through the 1970s.
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D.
Howard Lasnik
Howard Lasnik is a prominent American linguist known for his influential work in generative syntax and his close collaboration with Noam Chomsky in developing contemporary syntactic theory.
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E.
Ivan Chermayeff
Ivan Chermayeff was a prominent American graphic designer and artist renowned for his influential corporate logos and visual identities, including work for major institutions and global brands.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
businessperson
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entrepreneur ⓘ human ⓘ technologist ⓘ |
| coFounded | Pandora ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
data science
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internet industry ⓘ music technology ⓘ recommender systems ⓘ software engineering ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasRole | co-founder of Pandora ⓘ |
| industry |
digital music
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streaming media ⓘ technology ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-founding Pandora
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music recommendation technology ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | helped develop Pandora’s music recommendation platform ⓘ |
| notableWork | Pandora ⓘ |
| occupation |
business executive
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entrepreneur ⓘ technologist ⓘ |
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: Will Glaser Description of subject: Will Glaser is an American technologist and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the music streaming and recommendation service Pandora.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.