Thiel
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Thiel is the surname of Peter Thiel, the German-American billionaire entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and co-founder of PayPal and Palantir Technologies.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Thiel canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1185981 — 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: Thiel Context triple: [Peter Thiel, familyName, Thiel]
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A.
Denison
Denison is a city in north Texas known for its railroad heritage and as the birthplace of U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
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B.
Illinois Institute of Technology
Illinois Institute of Technology is a private research university in Chicago known for its strong engineering, architecture, and technology programs.
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C.
Carnegie
Carnegie is a Scottish surname most famously associated with industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.
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D.
Guth
Guth is the surname of Alan Guth, an American theoretical physicist best known for proposing the theory of cosmic inflation in the early universe.
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E.
Rice University
Rice University is a private research university in Houston, Texas, known for its strong programs in science and engineering, small student body, and high level of research activity.
- 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: Thiel Target entity description: Thiel is the surname of Peter Thiel, the German-American billionaire entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and co-founder of PayPal and Palantir Technologies.
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A.
Denison
Denison is a city in north Texas known for its railroad heritage and as the birthplace of U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
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B.
Illinois Institute of Technology
Illinois Institute of Technology is a private research university in Chicago known for its strong engineering, architecture, and technology programs.
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C.
Carnegie
Carnegie is a Scottish surname most famously associated with industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.
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D.
Guth
Guth is the surname of Alan Guth, an American theoretical physicist best known for proposing the theory of cosmic inflation in the early universe.
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E.
Rice University
Rice University is a private research university in Houston, Texas, known for its strong programs in science and engineering, small student body, and high level of research activity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
family name
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surname ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Adam Thiel
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Adam Thiel (fire commissioner) ⓘ Andreas Thiel ⓘ Andreas Thiel (cartoonist) ⓘ Christian Thiel ⓘ Christian Thiel (philosopher) ⓘ Ernst Thiel NERFINISHED ⓘ Franz Thiel NERFINISHED ⓘ Friedrich Thiel NERFINISHED ⓘ Georg Thiel NERFINISHED ⓘ Gerhard Thiel NERFINISHED ⓘ Günter Thiel NERFINISHED ⓘ Hans Thiel NERFINISHED ⓘ Harry Thiel ⓘ Heinz Thiel ⓘ Helmut Thiel NERFINISHED ⓘ Hermann Thiel NERFINISHED ⓘ Imke Thiel ⓘ Johann Thiel ⓘ Johannes Thiel ⓘ Jürgen Thiel ⓘ Karl Thiel NERFINISHED ⓘ Klaus Thiel ⓘ Ludwig Thiel NERFINISHED ⓘ Marie Thiel ⓘ Martin Thiel ⓘ Michael Thiel ⓘ Monika Thiel ⓘ Otto Thiel NERFINISHED ⓘ Paul Thiel ⓘ Peter Thiel ⓘ Peter Thiel (footballer) ⓘ Rainer Thiel ⓘ Reinhard Thiel NERFINISHED ⓘ Rudolf Thiel NERFINISHED ⓘ Stefan Thiel ⓘ Tamara Thiel ⓘ Thomas Thiel ⓘ Uwe Thiel ⓘ Walter Thiel NERFINISHED ⓘ Walter Thiel ⓘ
surface form:
Walter Thiel (engineer)
Wilhelm Thiel NERFINISHED ⓘ Wolfgang Thiel ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | German ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
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: Thiel Description of subject: Thiel is the surname of Peter Thiel, the German-American billionaire entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and co-founder of PayPal and Palantir Technologies.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.