Thiel Fellowship

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entrepreneurship fellowship program grant program

The Thiel Fellowship is a program that awards young people funding and support to leave or skip college and work full-time on entrepreneurial or scientific projects.

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Label	Occurrences
Thiel Fellowship canonical	3
20 Under 20 Thiel Fellowship	1
The Thiel Fellowship network	1
The Thiel Foundation	1
Thiel Foundation	1

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Target entity: Thiel Fellowship
Context triple: [Peter Thiel, founded, Thiel Fellowship]

A. Thiel
Thiel is the surname of Peter Thiel, the German-American billionaire entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and co-founder of PayPal and Palantir Technologies.
B. Thiel Capital
Thiel Capital is an investment firm and family office managing the personal capital and strategic ventures of billionaire entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel.
C. Schwarzman Scholars program
The Schwarzman Scholars program is a prestigious, fully funded international scholarship at Tsinghua University in Beijing designed to prepare future global leaders through a one-year master’s degree in global affairs.
D. Lemelson-MIT Prize
The Lemelson-MIT Prize is a prestigious American award that honors outstanding inventors whose innovations have significantly improved society.
E. Founders Fund
Founders Fund is a Silicon Valley venture capital firm known for backing ambitious, transformative technology companies at early and growth stages.
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 Fellowship
Target entity description: The Thiel Fellowship is a program that awards young people funding and support to leave or skip college and work full-time on entrepreneurial or scientific projects.

A. Thiel
Thiel is the surname of Peter Thiel, the German-American billionaire entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and co-founder of PayPal and Palantir Technologies.
B. Thiel Capital
Thiel Capital is an investment firm and family office managing the personal capital and strategic ventures of billionaire entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel.
C. Schwarzman Scholars program
The Schwarzman Scholars program is a prestigious, fully funded international scholarship at Tsinghua University in Beijing designed to prepare future global leaders through a one-year master’s degree in global affairs.
D. Lemelson-MIT Prize
The Lemelson-MIT Prize is a prestigious American award that honors outstanding inventors whose innovations have significantly improved society.
E. Founders Fund
Founders Fund is a Silicon Valley venture capital firm known for backing ambitious, transformative technology companies at early and growth stages.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	entrepreneurship fellowship program ⓘ grant program ⓘ
associatedOrganization	Thiel Fellowship self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: The Thiel Foundation
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
criticizedFor	encouraging students to leave college ⓘ
describedAs	alternative to traditional higher education ⓘ
eligibilityRequirement	willingness to leave or skip college ⓘ
field	entrepreneurship ⓘ scientific research ⓘ technology ⓘ
focus	early-stage founders ⓘ frontier science projects ⓘ high-impact ventures ⓘ technology startups ⓘ
foundedBy	Peter Thiel ⓘ
fundingType	non-dilutive grant ⓘ
hasComponent	access to advisors ⓘ access to investors ⓘ community of fellows and alumni ⓘ
hasLanguage	English ⓘ
headquartersLocation	San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ
inception	2011 ⓘ
keyConcept	full-time entrepreneurship ⓘ full-time research ⓘ leave or skip college ⓘ
mediaCoverage	Forbes ⓘ The New York Times ⓘ The Wall Street Journal ⓘ Wired magazine ⓘ surface form: Wired
notableAlumni	Alexandr Wang ⓘ Austin Russell ⓘ Dylan Field ⓘ Laura Deming ⓘ Ritesh Agarwal ⓘ Vitalik Buterin ⓘ
offers	grant funding ⓘ mentorship ⓘ networking opportunities ⓘ
originalName	Thiel Fellowship self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: 20 Under 20 Thiel Fellowship
purpose	support young people to work full-time on entrepreneurial projects ⓘ support young people to work full-time on scientific projects ⓘ
selectionProcess	competitive application ⓘ
sponsoredBy	Thiel Fellowship self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Thiel Foundation
targetDemographic	young people under 23 ⓘ
typicalAgeRangeOfFellows	late teens to early twenties ⓘ
typicalDuration	2 years ⓘ
website	https://thielfellowship.org ⓘ

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Peter Thiel → founded → Thiel Fellowship ⓘ

Thiel Fellowship → sponsoredBy → Thiel Fellowship self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Thiel Foundation

Thiel Fellowship → originalName → Thiel Fellowship self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: 20 Under 20 Thiel Fellowship

Thiel Fellowship → associatedOrganization → Thiel Fellowship self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: The Thiel Foundation

Vitalik Buterin → receivedScholarship → Thiel Fellowship ⓘ

Vitalik Buterin → awardReceived → Thiel Fellowship ⓘ

Scott Banister → memberOf → Thiel Fellowship ⓘ

this entity surface form: The Thiel Fellowship network

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