Matt Rogers
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Matt Rogers is an American entrepreneur and engineer best known as the co-founder of Nest Labs, the smart home technology company behind the Nest Thermostat.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Matt Rogers canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7930891 — 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: Matt Rogers Context triple: [Nest Labs, foundedBy, Matt Rogers]
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A.
Michael Rogers
Michael Rogers is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and the arts, rather than referring to one singular widely recognized figure.
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B.
Eric Rogers
Eric Rogers was a British composer and conductor best known for scoring many of the "Carry On" comedy films.
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C.
Mat Rogers
Mat Rogers is an Australian former dual-code rugby international who played both rugby league and rugby union at elite levels, including representing Australia and starring in the NRL.
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D.
James Rogers
James Rogers is a common personal name shared by numerous individuals across various fields, including politics, academia, sports, and the arts.
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E.
Matthew Rutler
Matthew Rutler is an American film production assistant and guitarist best known for his long-term relationship and marriage to singer Christina Aguilera.
- 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: Matt Rogers Target entity description: Matt Rogers is an American entrepreneur and engineer best known as the co-founder of Nest Labs, the smart home technology company behind the Nest Thermostat.
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A.
Michael Rogers
Michael Rogers is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and the arts, rather than referring to one singular widely recognized figure.
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B.
Eric Rogers
Eric Rogers was a British composer and conductor best known for scoring many of the "Carry On" comedy films.
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C.
Mat Rogers
Mat Rogers is an Australian former dual-code rugby international who played both rugby league and rugby union at elite levels, including representing Australia and starring in the NRL.
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D.
James Rogers
James Rogers is a common personal name shared by numerous individuals across various fields, including politics, academia, sports, and the arts.
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E.
Matthew Rutler
Matthew Rutler is an American film production assistant and guitarist best known for his long-term relationship and marriage to singer Christina Aguilera.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
entrepreneur
ⓘ
human ⓘ technology company ⓘ |
| coFounded |
Incite.org
ⓘ
Nest Labs ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Carnegie Mellon University
ⓘ
linked to:
CMU
|
| employer |
Apple Inc.
ⓘ
Nest Labs ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy |
computer science
ⓘ
electrical and computer engineering ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
consumer electronics
ⓘ
smart home technology ⓘ |
| focusesOn | climate technology investments ⓘ |
| founded | Incite.org ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasRole |
investor
ⓘ
philanthropist ⓘ |
| industry |
smart home industry
ⓘ
smart home technology ⓘ technology industry ⓘ |
| knownFor | co-founding Nest Labs ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Nest Labs founding team ⓘ |
| notableAward | MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 (TR35) honoree ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Nest Learning Thermostat
ⓘ
Nest Thermostat ⓘ
linked to:
Nest Learning Thermostat
|
| occupation |
engineer
ⓘ
entrepreneur ⓘ |
| positionHeld | vice president of engineering at Nest Labs ⓘ |
| product |
Nest Thermostat
ⓘ
linked to:
Nest Learning Thermostat
|
| residence |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
|
| spouse | Brittany Rogers ⓘ |
| workedOn |
iPhone software at Apple Inc.
ⓘ
linked to:
Apple operating systems
iPod software at Apple Inc. ⓘ |
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: Matt Rogers Description of subject: Matt Rogers is an American entrepreneur and engineer best known as the co-founder of Nest Labs, the smart home technology company behind the Nest Thermostat.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.