Will Hurley
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Will Hurley is an American entrepreneur and technologist, best known as the co-founder and CEO of the quantum computing company Strangeworks and for his influential role in the open source and startup communities.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Will Hurley canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5163838 — 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 Hurley Context triple: [Hurley, hasNotableBearer, Will Hurley]
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A.
David Anspaugh
David Anspaugh is an American film and television director best known for directing the sports dramas "Hoosiers" and "Rudy."
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B.
Conrad Kain
Conrad Kain was an Austrian mountain guide and pioneering alpinist renowned for numerous first ascents in the Canadian Rockies and beyond.
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C.
Larry Hillblom
Larry Hillblom was an American businessman and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the global logistics and courier company DHL.
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D.
Philip Dunne
Philip Dunne was an American screenwriter, director, and producer best known for his work on classic Hollywood films from the 1930s through the 1960s.
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E.
Jeremy Kemp
Jeremy Kemp was a British character actor known for his roles in films such as "The Blue Max," "A Bridge Too Far," and numerous television dramas.
- 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 Hurley Target entity description: Will Hurley is an American entrepreneur and technologist, best known as the co-founder and CEO of the quantum computing company Strangeworks and for his influential role in the open source and startup communities.
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A.
David Anspaugh
David Anspaugh is an American film and television director best known for directing the sports dramas "Hoosiers" and "Rudy."
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B.
Conrad Kain
Conrad Kain was an Austrian mountain guide and pioneering alpinist renowned for numerous first ascents in the Canadian Rockies and beyond.
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C.
Larry Hillblom
Larry Hillblom was an American businessman and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the global logistics and courier company DHL.
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D.
Philip Dunne
Philip Dunne was an American screenwriter, director, and producer best known for his work on classic Hollywood films from the 1930s through the 1960s.
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E.
Jeremy Kemp
Jeremy Kemp was a British character actor known for his roles in films such as "The Blue Max," "A Bridge Too Far," and numerous television dramas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
entrepreneur
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human ⓘ technologist ⓘ |
| activeIn | 21st century ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | whurley ⓘ |
| basedIn | United States of America ⓘ |
| coFounded | Strangeworks ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Strangeworks ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
open source software
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quantum computing ⓘ software engineering ⓘ startup incubation ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
building developer tools for quantum computing
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making quantum computing more usable ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasExperienceIn |
developer communities
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software startups ⓘ technology innovation ⓘ |
| hasRole |
community leader in open source
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mentor in startup community ⓘ |
| industry |
quantum technology industry
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technology industry ⓘ |
| influences |
early-stage technology startups
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open source development practices ⓘ |
| knownFor |
advocacy for open collaboration in software
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promoting accessibility of quantum computing ⓘ |
| memberOf | startup community in the United States ⓘ |
| name | Will Hurley ⓘ |
| notableFor |
involvement in startup ecosystems
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leadership in open source communities ⓘ work in quantum computing ⓘ |
| occupation |
entrepreneur
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open source advocate ⓘ software developer ⓘ startup founder ⓘ technology executive ⓘ |
| position |
chief executive officer of Strangeworks
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co-founder of Strangeworks ⓘ |
| speaksAt |
open source conferences
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startup events ⓘ technology conferences ⓘ |
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 Hurley Description of subject: Will Hurley is an American entrepreneur and technologist, best known as the co-founder and CEO of the quantum computing company Strangeworks and for his influential role in the open source and startup communities.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.