Eric Waller
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Eric Waller is an entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the mobile-focused ticketing platform SeatGeek.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Eric Waller canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10552766 — 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: Eric Waller Context triple: [SeatGeek, foundedBy, Eric Waller]
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A.
Michael Wallis
Michael Wallis is an American historian and author best known for his works on Route 66 and the American West, as well as for voicing the Sheriff in Pixar’s Cars films.
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B.
Ian Wallace
Ian Wallace is a musician best known as the drummer for the British rock band King Crimson and for his extensive work as a session and touring drummer.
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C.
Ian Wallace
Ian Wallace is a musician best known as the drummer for the New Zealand rock band The Warriors.
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D.
Robert Walls
Robert Walls is a former Australian rules football player and premiership-winning coach best known for his coaching stints with several VFL/AFL clubs, including the Brisbane Bears.
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E.
Thomas Wall
Thomas Wall is a personal name shared by multiple individuals, including historical figures, professionals, and public personalities across various fields.
- 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: Eric Waller Target entity description: Eric Waller is an entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the mobile-focused ticketing platform SeatGeek.
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A.
Michael Wallis
Michael Wallis is an American historian and author best known for his works on Route 66 and the American West, as well as for voicing the Sheriff in Pixar’s Cars films.
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B.
Ian Wallace
Ian Wallace is a musician best known as the drummer for the British rock band King Crimson and for his extensive work as a session and touring drummer.
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C.
Ian Wallace
Ian Wallace is a musician best known as the drummer for the New Zealand rock band The Warriors.
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D.
Robert Walls
Robert Walls is a former Australian rules football player and premiership-winning coach best known for his coaching stints with several VFL/AFL clubs, including the Brisbane Bears.
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E.
Thomas Wall
Thomas Wall is a personal name shared by multiple individuals, including historical figures, professionals, and public personalities across various fields.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
businessperson
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company ⓘ entrepreneur ⓘ ticketing platform ⓘ |
| basedIn |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| coFoundedBy | Eric Waller ⓘ |
| coFounderOf | SeatGeek ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| field |
online ticketing
ⓘ
technology entrepreneurship ⓘ |
| focus | mobile ticketing ⓘ |
| hasRole | co-founder of SeatGeek ⓘ |
| industry | event ticketing ⓘ |
| knownFor | co-founding SeatGeek ⓘ |
| name | Eric Waller ⓘ |
| notableWork | SeatGeek mobile ticketing platform ⓘ |
| occupation |
business executive
ⓘ
entrepreneur ⓘ |
| platformType | mobile-focused ticketing platform ⓘ |
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: Eric Waller Description of subject: Eric Waller is an entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the mobile-focused ticketing platform SeatGeek.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Eric Waller