Patrick Collison
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Patrick Collison is an Irish entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and CEO of the online payments company Stripe.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Patrick Collison canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6091570 — 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: Patrick Collison Context triple: [Stripe, foundedBy, Patrick Collison]
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A.
Craig Harrington
Craig Harrington is an English football coach best known for managing in women's professional soccer, including a stint in the National Women's Soccer League.
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B.
Jeff Pagliocca
Jeff Pagliocca is a basketball executive best known for serving as the general manager of the WNBA’s Chicago Sky.
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C.
Christian Stovitz
Christian Stovitz is a stylish, charming new student and love interest in the 1995 teen comedy film "Clueless," known for his retro fashion sense and eventual revelation as gay.
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D.
Stephen McNally
Stephen McNally was an American film and television actor known for his tough, often villainous roles in mid-20th-century Hollywood dramas and westerns.
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E.
Brian McMahan
Brian McMahan is an American guitarist and vocalist best known as a founding member of the influential post-rock band Slint.
- 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: Patrick Collison Target entity description: Patrick Collison is an Irish entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and CEO of the online payments company Stripe.
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A.
Craig Harrington
Craig Harrington is an English football coach best known for managing in women's professional soccer, including a stint in the National Women's Soccer League.
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B.
Jeff Pagliocca
Jeff Pagliocca is a basketball executive best known for serving as the general manager of the WNBA’s Chicago Sky.
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C.
Christian Stovitz
Christian Stovitz is a stylish, charming new student and love interest in the 1995 teen comedy film "Clueless," known for his retro fashion sense and eventual revelation as gay.
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D.
Stephen McNally
Stephen McNally was an American film and television actor known for his tough, often villainous roles in mid-20th-century Hollywood dramas and westerns.
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E.
Brian McMahan
Brian McMahan is an American guitarist and vocalist best known as a founding member of the influential post-rock band Slint.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
entrepreneur
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Silicon Valley
ⓘ
Y Combinator ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition prize ⓘ |
| coFounded |
Auctomatic
ⓘ
Stripe ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Ireland ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1988-09-09 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Castletroy College
ⓘ
Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ |
| employer | Stripe ⓘ |
| familyName | Collison ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
financial technology
ⓘ
online payments ⓘ startups ⓘ |
| founded | Stripe ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Patrick ⓘ |
| hasInterest |
economic growth
ⓘ
progress studies ⓘ science funding ⓘ |
| hasRole |
company director
ⓘ
startup founder ⓘ |
| industry |
financial services
ⓘ
technology ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Paul Graham
ⓘ
startup culture in Silicon Valley ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being CEO of Stripe
ⓘ
co-founding Stripe ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Patrick Collison ⓘ |
| nationality | Irish ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
co-founded Auctomatic, later acquired by Live Current Media
ⓘ
won the 41st Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition in 2005 ⓘ |
| notableWork | building Stripe ⓘ |
| occupation |
CEO of Stripe
ⓘ
software engineer ⓘ technology entrepreneur ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
County Limerick
ⓘ
Ireland ⓘ Limerick ⓘ
linked to:
Limerick, Ireland
|
| positionHeld |
Chief Executive Officer of Stripe
ⓘ
linked to:
CEO of Stripe
|
| residence | San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ |
| sibling | John Collison ⓘ |
| website | https://patrickcollison.com ⓘ |
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: Patrick Collison Description of subject: Patrick Collison is an Irish entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and CEO of the online payments company Stripe.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.