Kevin Hartz
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Kevin Hartz is an American entrepreneur and investor best known as the co-founder of Eventbrite and an early backer of numerous successful technology startups.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Kevin Hartz canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5427979 — 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)
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Target entity: Kevin Hartz Context triple: [Youniversity Ventures, coFoundedBy, Kevin Hartz]
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A.
Ben Schnetzer
Ben Schnetzer is an American actor known for his roles in films such as "Pride," "The Book Thief," and the fantasy epic "Warcraft."
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B.
Matt Hauser
Matt Hauser is a composer and musician known for creating the score for the documentary film "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room."
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C.
Jeremy Stoppelman
Jeremy Stoppelman is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and longtime CEO of Yelp, a popular online review platform for local businesses.
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D.
Eric Wetzels
Eric Wetzels is a Dutch politician who serves as the chairperson of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD).
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E.
Nick Wechsler
Nick Wechsler is an American actor best known for his television roles, including playing Jack Porter on the drama series "Revenge."
- 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: Kevin Hartz Target entity description: Kevin Hartz is an American entrepreneur and investor best known as the co-founder of Eventbrite and an early backer of numerous successful technology startups.
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A.
Ben Schnetzer
Ben Schnetzer is an American actor known for his roles in films such as "Pride," "The Book Thief," and the fantasy epic "Warcraft."
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B.
Matt Hauser
Matt Hauser is a composer and musician known for creating the score for the documentary film "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room."
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C.
Jeremy Stoppelman
Jeremy Stoppelman is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and longtime CEO of Yelp, a popular online review platform for local businesses.
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D.
Eric Wetzels
Eric Wetzels is a Dutch politician who serves as the chairperson of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD).
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E.
Nick Wechsler
Nick Wechsler is an American actor best known for his television roles, including playing Jack Porter on the drama series "Revenge."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
entrepreneur
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| boardMemberOf |
Airbnb
ⓘ
Eventbrite ⓘ Lookout ⓘ Pinterest ⓘ
linked to:
Pinterest, Inc.
|
| businessModelFocus |
consumer internet
ⓘ
fintech ⓘ marketplaces ⓘ |
| coFoundedWith |
Julia Hartz
ⓘ
Renaud Visage ⓘ |
| coFounderOf |
A* Capital
ⓘ
Eventbrite ⓘ Xoom ⓘ
linked to:
Xoom Corporation
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| earlyInvestorIn |
Airbnb
ⓘ
Lookout ⓘ PayPal ⓘ Pinterest ⓘ Trulia ⓘ Uber ⓘ Yammer ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Oxford University
ⓘ
linked to:
University of Oxford
Stanford University ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
technology startups
ⓘ
venture capital ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| industry |
online payments
ⓘ
online ticketing ⓘ technology ⓘ |
| investorType |
angel investor
ⓘ
venture capitalist ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-founding Eventbrite
ⓘ
early-stage technology investing ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| notableRole | helping scale Eventbrite through venture funding and IPO ⓘ |
| notableWork | building Eventbrite into a global ticketing platform ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessperson
ⓘ
entrepreneur ⓘ investor ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Chairman of Eventbrite
ⓘ
Chief Executive Officer of Eventbrite ⓘ |
| residence | San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ |
| spouse | Julia Hartz ⓘ |
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: Kevin Hartz Description of subject: Kevin Hartz is an American entrepreneur and investor best known as the co-founder of Eventbrite and an early backer of numerous successful technology startups.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.