Plank
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Plank is a surname most notably associated with Kevin Plank, the American billionaire founder and former CEO of Under Armour.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Plank canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5928909 — 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: Plank Context triple: [Kevin Plank, familyName, Plank]
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A.
Bogo
Bogo is an alternative name for the Bilen people, an ethnic group primarily living in Eritrea.
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B.
Bogo
Bogo is a component city located in the northern part of Cebu province in the Philippines, known as a commercial and transport hub for surrounding municipalities and islands.
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C.
Darvin
Darvin is a masculine given name most notably borne by former NBA player and current basketball coach Darvin Ham.
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D.
Brin
Brin is a surname most prominently associated with Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google and a leading figure in the technology industry.
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E.
Bryc
Bryc is an alternative spelling of the given name Bryce, typically used as a modern or stylistic variant.
- 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: Plank Target entity description: Plank is a surname most notably associated with Kevin Plank, the American billionaire founder and former CEO of Under Armour.
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A.
Bogo
Bogo is an alternative name for the Bilen people, an ethnic group primarily living in Eritrea.
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B.
Bogo
Bogo is a component city located in the northern part of Cebu province in the Philippines, known as a commercial and transport hub for surrounding municipalities and islands.
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C.
Darvin
Darvin is a masculine given name most notably borne by former NBA player and current basketball coach Darvin Ham.
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D.
Brin
Brin is a surname most prominently associated with Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google and a leading figure in the technology industry.
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E.
Bryc
Bryc is an alternative spelling of the given name Bryce, typically used as a modern or stylistic variant.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
company
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entrepreneur ⓘ human ⓘ physicist ⓘ sportswear company ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1972-08-13 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Maryland, College Park
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linked to:
University of Maryland
|
| familyName |
Planck
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Plank ⓘ |
| founded | Under Armour ⓘ |
| givenName | Kevin ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin |
English
ⓘ
German ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Max Planck ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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linked to:
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
|
| industry |
athletic apparel
ⓘ
sportswear ⓘ |
| notableBearer | Kevin Plank ⓘ |
| notableFor | founding Under Armour ⓘ |
| occupation |
business executive
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entrepreneur ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Kensington, Maryland, United States of America
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linked to:
Kensington, Maryland
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| playedFor |
Maryland Terrapins football team
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linked to:
Maryland Terrapins football
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| positionHeld |
Brand Chief of Under Armour
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Chief Executive Officer of Under Armour ⓘ Executive Chairman of Under Armour ⓘ |
| sport | American football ⓘ |
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: Plank Description of subject: Plank is a surname most notably associated with Kevin Plank, the American billionaire founder and former CEO of Under Armour.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.