Dennis Crowley
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Dennis Crowley is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of the location-based social networking service Foursquare.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dennis Crowley canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9741329 — 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: Dennis Crowley Context triple: [Foursquare, foundedBy, Dennis Crowley]
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A.
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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B.
Matt Meeker
Matt Meeker is an American entrepreneur best known for co-founding the social networking platform Meetup.com.
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C.
Andy Boucher
Andy Boucher is a musician best known as a member of the British electronic and dance music collective Beats International, formed by Norman Cook (later known as Fatboy Slim).
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D.
Keith Andes
Keith Andes was an American actor known for his work in mid-20th-century film, television, and theater, including notable roles in productions like "A Date with Judy" and "This Man Is Mine."
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E.
Andy Fickman
Andy Fickman is an American film and television director known for family-friendly comedies and energetic, commercially successful studio movies.
- 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: Dennis Crowley Target entity description: Dennis Crowley is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of the location-based social networking service Foursquare.
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A.
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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B.
Matt Meeker
Matt Meeker is an American entrepreneur best known for co-founding the social networking platform Meetup.com.
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C.
Andy Boucher
Andy Boucher is a musician best known as a member of the British electronic and dance music collective Beats International, formed by Norman Cook (later known as Fatboy Slim).
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D.
Keith Andes
Keith Andes was an American actor known for his work in mid-20th-century film, television, and theater, including notable roles in productions like "A Date with Judy" and "This Man Is Mine."
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E.
Andy Fickman
Andy Fickman is an American film and television director known for family-friendly comedies and energetic, commercially successful studio movies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
entrepreneur
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| basedIn | New York City ⓘ |
| coFounded |
Dodgeball
ⓘ
Foursquare ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
New York University
ⓘ
Syracuse University ⓘ |
| employer |
Dodgeball
ⓘ
Foursquare ⓘ |
| familyName | Crowley ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
location-based services
ⓘ
social networking ⓘ |
| givenName | Dennis ⓘ |
| hasActivity |
public speaking
ⓘ
startup mentoring ⓘ |
| hasEmployerHistory | Google ⓘ |
| hasNotableAchievement |
building Foursquare into a major location intelligence platform
ⓘ
popularizing check-in based social networking ⓘ |
| hasRole |
product designer
ⓘ
startup founder ⓘ |
| industry |
mobile applications
ⓘ
technology industry ⓘ |
| influenced | development of location-based check-in culture ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-founding Foursquare
ⓘ
developing location-based social networking services ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Dennis Crowley ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Foursquare
ⓘ
development of Dodgeball ⓘ |
| occupation |
business executive
ⓘ
entrepreneur ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
CEO of Foursquare
ⓘ
co-founder of Dodgeball ⓘ co-founder of Foursquare ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workedOn | Dodgeball at Google ⓘ |
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: Dennis Crowley Description of subject: Dennis Crowley is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of the location-based social networking service Foursquare.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.