Naveen Selvadurai
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Naveen Selvadurai is an American entrepreneur and software engineer best known as the co-founder of the location-based social networking service Foursquare.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Naveen Selvadurai canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9741330 — 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: Naveen Selvadurai Context triple: [Foursquare, foundedBy, Naveen Selvadurai]
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A.
Niraja Gopal Jayal
Niraja Gopal Jayal is an Indian political scientist and scholar of democracy, citizenship, and the Indian state, known for her influential work on political representation and public institutions.
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B.
Jerome Teelucksingh
Jerome Teelucksingh is a Trinidadian academic and activist best known for reviving and promoting International Men's Day as a global observance focused on men's health, positive male role models, and gender relations.
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C.
Nalan Kumarasamy
Nalan Kumarasamy is an Indian filmmaker and screenwriter known for his work in contemporary Tamil cinema, particularly for his darkly comic and unconventional storytelling.
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D.
Mathangi Arulpragasam
Mathangi Arulpragasam, better known by her stage name M.I.A., is a British-Sri Lankan rapper, singer, producer, and visual artist renowned for her politically charged, genre-blending music and global cultural influence.
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E.
Pushpa Kandasamy
Pushpa Kandasamy is an Indian film producer known for backing notable Tamil-language films, including the acclaimed movie "Roja."
- 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: Naveen Selvadurai Target entity description: Naveen Selvadurai is an American entrepreneur and software engineer best known as the co-founder of the location-based social networking service Foursquare.
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A.
Niraja Gopal Jayal
Niraja Gopal Jayal is an Indian political scientist and scholar of democracy, citizenship, and the Indian state, known for her influential work on political representation and public institutions.
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B.
Jerome Teelucksingh
Jerome Teelucksingh is a Trinidadian academic and activist best known for reviving and promoting International Men's Day as a global observance focused on men's health, positive male role models, and gender relations.
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C.
Nalan Kumarasamy
Nalan Kumarasamy is an Indian filmmaker and screenwriter known for his work in contemporary Tamil cinema, particularly for his darkly comic and unconventional storytelling.
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D.
Mathangi Arulpragasam
Mathangi Arulpragasam, better known by her stage name M.I.A., is a British-Sri Lankan rapper, singer, producer, and visual artist renowned for her politically charged, genre-blending music and global cultural influence.
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E.
Pushpa Kandasamy
Pushpa Kandasamy is an Indian film producer known for backing notable Tamil-language films, including the acclaimed movie "Roja."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
entrepreneur
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human ⓘ software engineer ⓘ |
| activeIn | New York startup community ⓘ |
| basedIn | New York City tech scene ⓘ |
| coFounded | Foursquare ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Dennis Crowley ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
King’s College London
ⓘ
Worcester Polytechnic Institute ⓘ |
| employer |
Foursquare
ⓘ
Lucent Technologies ⓘ Nokia ⓘ Sony Music ⓘ
linked to:
Sony Music Entertainment
Sun Microsystems ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | Indian ⓘ |
| familyName | Selvadurai ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
social networking
ⓘ
software development ⓘ |
| founded | Naveenium (personal studio/brand) ⓘ |
| genre | location-based services ⓘ |
| givenName | Naveen ⓘ |
| hasBlog | Naveenium blog ⓘ |
| hasExperienceIn |
consumer internet products
ⓘ
location-based social networking ⓘ startup ecosystems ⓘ |
| hasRole |
mobile developer
ⓘ
product designer ⓘ startup founder ⓘ |
| industry |
internet
ⓘ
mobile applications ⓘ technology ⓘ |
| knownFor | co-founding Foursquare ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Naveen Selvadurai ⓘ |
| notableProject | development of Foursquare mobile app ⓘ |
| notableWork | Foursquare ⓘ |
| occupation |
computer programmer
ⓘ
entrepreneur ⓘ software engineer ⓘ |
| positionHeld | co-founder of Foursquare ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| roleAtFoursquare | product and engineering ⓘ |
| socialMediaPlatform |
Instagram
ⓘ
Twitter ⓘ
linked to:
Twitter, Inc.
|
| website | https://naveenium.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: Naveen Selvadurai Description of subject: Naveen Selvadurai is an American entrepreneur and software engineer best known as the co-founder of the location-based social networking service Foursquare.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.