Mycoskie
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Mycoskie is the surname of Blake Mycoskie, the American entrepreneur best known as the founder of TOMS Shoes and pioneer of the “One for One” social entrepreneurship model.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mycoskie canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11105800 — 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: Mycoskie Context triple: [Blake Mycoskie, familyName, Mycoskie]
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A.
Ryko
Ryko is a music label imprint associated with the independent record company Rykodisc, known for its diverse catalog of alternative and reissued recordings.
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B.
Coogs
Coogs is a common shorthand nickname for the University of Houston Cougars athletic teams and their fans.
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C.
Monki
Monki is a youth-oriented fashion brand offering playful, trend-driven clothing and accessories under the H&M Group.
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D.
Kiesen
Kiesen is a municipality in the canton of Bern, Switzerland, served by a station on the Bern–Thun railway line.
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E.
Merkys
Merkys is a river in Lithuania and Belarus that serves as one of the principal tributaries of the Neman (Niemen) River.
- 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: Mycoskie Target entity description: Mycoskie is the surname of Blake Mycoskie, the American entrepreneur best known as the founder of TOMS Shoes and pioneer of the “One for One” social entrepreneurship model.
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A.
Ryko
Ryko is a music label imprint associated with the independent record company Rykodisc, known for its diverse catalog of alternative and reissued recordings.
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B.
Coogs
Coogs is a common shorthand nickname for the University of Houston Cougars athletic teams and their fans.
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C.
Monki
Monki is a youth-oriented fashion brand offering playful, trend-driven clothing and accessories under the H&M Group.
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D.
Kiesen
Kiesen is a municipality in the canton of Bern, Switzerland, served by a station on the Bern–Thun railway line.
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E.
Merkys
Merkys is a river in Lithuania and Belarus that serves as one of the principal tributaries of the Neman (Niemen) River.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| appearedIn | business and lifestyle media outlets ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
conscious capitalism
ⓘ
linked to:
Conscious Capitalism, Inc.
impact-driven business ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
CFDA Accessory Designer of the Year (for TOMS)
ⓘ
linked to:
CFDA Accessory Designer of the Year
Secretary of State’s Award for Corporate Excellence (for TOMS) ⓘ |
| basedIn |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
|
| businessFocus | combining profit with social impact ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1976-08-26 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Southern Methodist University ⓘ |
| familyName | Mycoskie ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
social enterprise
ⓘ
social entrepreneurship ⓘ |
| founded |
TOMS
ⓘ
linked to:
TOMS Shoes
TOMS Shoes ⓘ |
| genre | business literature ⓘ |
| givenName | Blake ⓘ |
| hasBusinessModel | social enterprise with embedded giving ⓘ |
| hasInspired | socially conscious consumerism movement ⓘ |
| hasPhilanthropicFocus |
improving access to shoes for children in need
ⓘ
social impact investing ⓘ |
| hasRoleIn | popularizing one-for-one giving in retail ⓘ |
| hasSocialEntrepreneurshipModel | buy-one-give-one shoe donation model ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.toms.com ⓘ |
| influenced | adoption of one-for-one models in other companies ⓘ |
| knownFor |
founding TOMS Shoes
ⓘ
pioneering the One for One business model ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Blake Mycoskie ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | scaled TOMS into a global footwear brand ⓘ |
| notableIdea | One for One model ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Start Something That Matters
ⓘ
TOMS Shoes ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessperson
ⓘ
entrepreneur ⓘ philanthropist ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Arlington, Texas ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Chief Shoe Giver at TOMS ⓘ |
| residence | Los Angeles, California ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse |
Heather Lang (former spouse)
ⓘ
linked to:
Heather Lang
|
| stateOfBirth | Texas ⓘ |
| subjectOf | numerous interviews on social entrepreneurship ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Mycoskie Description of subject: Mycoskie is the surname of Blake Mycoskie, the American entrepreneur best known as the founder of TOMS Shoes and pioneer of the “One for One” social entrepreneurship model.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Mycoskie