Tom Proulx
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Tom Proulx is an American software developer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of the financial software company Intuit.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tom Proulx canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7394062 — 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: Tom Proulx Context triple: [Intuit, foundedBy, Tom Proulx]
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A.
Rob Bourdon
Rob Bourdon is an American musician best known as the drummer and a founding member of the rock band Linkin Park.
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B.
Cliff Potts
Cliff Potts is an American actor best known for his role in the 1972 science fiction film "Silent Running" and for numerous television appearances in the 1970s and 1980s.
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C.
Curt Vaughan
Curt Vaughan is a character in the horror-comedy film "The Cabin in the Woods," portrayed as the stereotypical jock whose behavior is manipulated by external forces.
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D.
Frank Reynolds
Frank Reynolds is a scheming, morally bankrupt businessman and the depraved, chaos-loving father figure of the gang in the sitcom "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia."
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E.
Greg Gilmore
Greg Gilmore is an American rock drummer best known for his work with the late-1980s Seattle band Mother Love Bone, a key precursor to the grunge movement.
- 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: Tom Proulx Target entity description: Tom Proulx is an American software developer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of the financial software company Intuit.
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A.
Rob Bourdon
Rob Bourdon is an American musician best known as the drummer and a founding member of the rock band Linkin Park.
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B.
Cliff Potts
Cliff Potts is an American actor best known for his role in the 1972 science fiction film "Silent Running" and for numerous television appearances in the 1970s and 1980s.
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C.
Curt Vaughan
Curt Vaughan is a character in the horror-comedy film "The Cabin in the Woods," portrayed as the stereotypical jock whose behavior is manipulated by external forces.
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D.
Frank Reynolds
Frank Reynolds is a scheming, morally bankrupt businessman and the depraved, chaos-loving father figure of the gang in the sitcom "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia."
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E.
Greg Gilmore
Greg Gilmore is an American rock drummer best known for his work with the late-1980s Seattle band Mother Love Bone, a key precursor to the grunge movement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
entrepreneur
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human ⓘ software developer ⓘ |
| coFounded | Intuit ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| developed | early versions of Quicken ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Stanford University ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
financial software
ⓘ
personal finance management ⓘ software engineering ⓘ |
| industry |
financial technology
ⓘ
software industry ⓘ |
| knownFor | co-founding Intuit ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
contributed to the early success of Intuit
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helped popularize personal finance software for consumers ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Intuit financial software
ⓘ
linked to:
Intuit
Quicken ⓘ
linked to:
Intuit
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| occupation |
entrepreneur
ⓘ
software developer ⓘ |
| partnerInBusinessWith | Scott Cook ⓘ |
| roleAtOrganization | co-founder of Intuit ⓘ |
| studied |
computer science
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electrical engineering ⓘ |
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: Tom Proulx Description of subject: Tom Proulx is an American software developer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of the financial software company Intuit.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.