Richard Dale Snyder
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Richard Dale Snyder is an American businessman and Republican politician who served as the 48th governor of Michigan from 2011 to 2019.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Richard Dale Snyder canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6825325 — 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: Richard Dale Snyder Context triple: [Rick Snyder, birthName, Richard Dale Snyder]
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A.
Alan Snyder
Alan Snyder is a computer scientist and software engineer known for his work on programming languages and system design, including contributions to the development of the CLU language.
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B.
Johnny Gandelsman
Johnny Gandelsman is a Grammy-winning violinist and producer known for his work with ensembles like Brooklyn Rider and the Silk Road Ensemble, as well as for his innovative solo projects.
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C.
Douglas Meyer
Douglas Meyer is a theatrical producer best known for his work on the Broadway musical adaptation of "The Wedding Singer."
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D.
Scott Rosenberg
Scott Rosenberg is an American screenwriter and producer known for writing high-profile films such as "Con Air," "Gone in 60 Seconds," and "High Fidelity."
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E.
Josh Kesselman
Josh Kesselman is a film and television producer best known for his work as an executive producer on projects such as the series "The Great."
- 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: Richard Dale Snyder Target entity description: Richard Dale Snyder is an American businessman and Republican politician who served as the 48th governor of Michigan from 2011 to 2019.
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A.
Alan Snyder
Alan Snyder is a computer scientist and software engineer known for his work on programming languages and system design, including contributions to the development of the CLU language.
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B.
Johnny Gandelsman
Johnny Gandelsman is a Grammy-winning violinist and producer known for his work with ensembles like Brooklyn Rider and the Silk Road Ensemble, as well as for his innovative solo projects.
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C.
Douglas Meyer
Douglas Meyer is a theatrical producer best known for his work on the Broadway musical adaptation of "The Wedding Singer."
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D.
Scott Rosenberg
Scott Rosenberg is an American screenwriter and producer known for writing high-profile films such as "Con Air," "Gone in 60 Seconds," and "High Fidelity."
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E.
Josh Kesselman
Josh Kesselman is a film and television producer best known for his work as an executive producer on projects such as the series "The Great."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
politician ⓘ |
| academicDegree |
Bachelor of General Studies
ⓘ
Juris Doctor ⓘ Master of Business Administration ⓘ |
| birthName | Richard Dale Snyder ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfService | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Michigan
ⓘ
University of Michigan Law School ⓘ |
| employer | Gateway, Inc. ⓘ |
| familyName | Snyder ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy |
business administration
ⓘ
general studies ⓘ law ⓘ |
| givenName | Richard ⓘ |
| hasHonorificPrefix | Governor ⓘ |
| hasRole |
corporate executive
ⓘ
public official ⓘ |
| industry |
public administration
ⓘ
technology industry ⓘ |
| isAffiliatedWith |
Republican Party of Michigan
ⓘ
linked to:
Michigan Republican Party
|
| jurisdictionGoverned |
State of Michigan
ⓘ
linked to:
Michigan
|
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Republican Party ⓘ |
| middleName | Dale ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
leadership in technology business sector
ⓘ
serving as 48th Governor of Michigan ⓘ |
| notableWork | tenure as Governor of Michigan ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessman
ⓘ
politician ⓘ |
| officeEndTime | 2019 ⓘ |
| officeStartTime | 2011 ⓘ |
| ordinalInOffice | 48th Governor of Michigan ⓘ |
| partOf |
Michigan state government
ⓘ
linked to:
government of Michigan
|
| politicalAlignment | conservative ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Chief Executive Officer of Gateway, Inc.
ⓘ
Governor of Michigan ⓘ |
| residence | Michigan ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| stateRepresented | Michigan ⓘ |
| workLocation | Michigan ⓘ |
| workPeriod |
early 21st century
ⓘ
late 20th century ⓘ |
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: Richard Dale Snyder Description of subject: Richard Dale Snyder is an American businessman and Republican politician who served as the 48th governor of Michigan from 2011 to 2019.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.