Richard Barton
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Richard Barton is an American entrepreneur best known as the founder of Zillow and co-founder of Expedia and Glassdoor.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Richard Barton canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10168772 — 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 Barton Context triple: [Rich Barton, knownAs, Richard Barton]
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A.
Guy Bolton
Guy Bolton was a British-American playwright and librettist best known for his influential musical comedies and collaborations with figures like P. G. Wodehouse and Jerome Kern.
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B.
Luke Havergal
"Luke Havergal" is a dark, atmospheric lyric poem by Edwin Arlington Robinson, noted for its haunting meditation on death, loss, and the lure of the afterlife.
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C.
John Bevan
John Bevan was a British intelligence officer who played a key role in planning and overseeing Allied deception operations during World War II.
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D.
John William Sterling
John William Sterling was an American lawyer and major benefactor of Yale University, best known for his substantial philanthropic contributions that funded several of the university’s landmark buildings and programs.
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E.
Henry Gayden
Henry Gayden is an American screenwriter best known for writing the superhero film "Shazam!" and its sequel in the DC Extended Universe.
- 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 Barton Target entity description: Richard Barton is an American entrepreneur best known as the founder of Zillow and co-founder of Expedia and Glassdoor.
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A.
Guy Bolton
Guy Bolton was a British-American playwright and librettist best known for his influential musical comedies and collaborations with figures like P. G. Wodehouse and Jerome Kern.
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B.
Luke Havergal
"Luke Havergal" is a dark, atmospheric lyric poem by Edwin Arlington Robinson, noted for its haunting meditation on death, loss, and the lure of the afterlife.
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C.
John Bevan
John Bevan was a British intelligence officer who played a key role in planning and overseeing Allied deception operations during World War II.
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D.
John William Sterling
John William Sterling was an American lawyer and major benefactor of Yale University, best known for his substantial philanthropic contributions that funded several of the university’s landmark buildings and programs.
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E.
Henry Gayden
Henry Gayden is an American screenwriter best known for writing the superhero film "Shazam!" and its sequel in the DC Extended Universe.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
entrepreneur
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award
ⓘ
U.S. News & World Report Best Leaders award ⓘ |
| coFounded |
Expedia
ⓘ
linked to:
Expedia Group
Glassdoor ⓘ Zillow ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Stanford University ⓘ |
| employer |
Expedia
ⓘ
linked to:
Expedia Group
Microsoft ⓘ Zillow Group ⓘ
linked to:
Zillow
|
| familyName | Barton ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
internet business
ⓘ
online real estate ⓘ online travel industry ⓘ |
| founded | Zillow ⓘ |
| givenName | Richard ⓘ |
| hasRole |
startup investor
ⓘ
technology founder ⓘ |
| industry |
online services
ⓘ
real estate technology ⓘ technology ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-founding Expedia
ⓘ
co-founding Glassdoor ⓘ founding Zillow ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Board of Directors of Artsy
ⓘ
Board of Directors of Netflix ⓘ |
| name | Richard Barton ⓘ |
| notableFor | pioneering consumer-facing internet services in travel and real estate ⓘ |
| notableWork |
creation of Zillow real estate marketplace
ⓘ
development of Expedia as an online travel agency ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessperson
ⓘ
chief executive officer ⓘ entrepreneur ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Chief Executive Officer of Zillow Group
ⓘ
President of Expedia ⓘ |
| residence |
Seattle, Washington
ⓘ
linked to:
Seattle, Washington, United States
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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 Barton Description of subject: Richard Barton is an American entrepreneur best known as the founder of Zillow and co-founder of Expedia and Glassdoor.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.