Maksymilian Rafailovych Levchyn
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Maksymilian Rafailovych Levchyn, better known as Max Levchin, is a Ukrainian-American computer scientist and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of PayPal and founder of the fintech company Affirm.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Maksymilian Rafailovych Levchyn canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1176458 — 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: Maksymilian Rafailovych Levchyn Context triple: [Max Levchin, fullName, Maksymilian Rafailovych Levchyn]
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A.
Kuzma Derevyanko
Kuzma Derevyanko was a Soviet general who served as the USSR’s representative at the Japanese surrender ceremony ending World War II.
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B.
Mykhailo Fedorov
Mykhailo Fedorov is a Ukrainian politician and digital reformer known for leading the country’s ambitious e-government and digital transformation initiatives.
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C.
Vasyl Holoborodko
Vasyl Holoborodko is the fictional history teacher who unexpectedly becomes president of Ukraine in the satirical Ukrainian TV series "Servant of the People," portrayed by Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
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D.
Leonid Kravchuk
Leonid Kravchuk was the first President of independent Ukraine and a key political leader in the final stages of the Soviet Union’s collapse.
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E.
Stepan Petrichenko
Stepan Petrichenko was a Russian sailor and revolutionary who led the 1921 Kronstadt rebellion against the Bolshevik government.
- 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: Maksymilian Rafailovych Levchyn Target entity description: Maksymilian Rafailovych Levchyn, better known as Max Levchin, is a Ukrainian-American computer scientist and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of PayPal and founder of the fintech company Affirm.
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A.
Kuzma Derevyanko
Kuzma Derevyanko was a Soviet general who served as the USSR’s representative at the Japanese surrender ceremony ending World War II.
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B.
Mykhailo Fedorov
Mykhailo Fedorov is a Ukrainian politician and digital reformer known for leading the country’s ambitious e-government and digital transformation initiatives.
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C.
Vasyl Holoborodko
Vasyl Holoborodko is the fictional history teacher who unexpectedly becomes president of Ukraine in the satirical Ukrainian TV series "Servant of the People," portrayed by Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
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D.
Leonid Kravchuk
Leonid Kravchuk was the first President of independent Ukraine and a key political leader in the final stages of the Soviet Union’s collapse.
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E.
Stepan Petrichenko
Stepan Petrichenko was a Russian sailor and revolutionary who led the 1921 Kronstadt rebellion against the Bolshevik government.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
business executive
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company founder ⓘ computer scientist ⓘ entrepreneur ⓘ human ⓘ |
| academicDegree | Bachelor of Science in Computer Science ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Max Levchin ⓘ |
| boardMemberOf |
Evernote
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Yelp ⓘ |
| coFounded | PayPal ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Ukraine
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
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University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign ⓘ
surface form:
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign College of Engineering
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| employer |
Affirm
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PayPal ⓘ Slide ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Ukrainian Jews ⓘ |
| familyName | Levchyn ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
computer science
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financial technology ⓘ online payments ⓘ |
| founded |
Affirm
ⓘ
HVF ⓘ
surface form:
HVF (Hard, Valuable, Fun)
Slide ⓘ |
| givenName |
Maximilian
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surface form:
Maksymilian
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| industry |
financial services industry
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technology industry ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
Russian ⓘ Ukrainian ⓘ |
| memberOf | PayPal Mafia ⓘ |
| movement | immigrated to the United States as a teenager ⓘ |
| name | Maksymilian Rafailovych Levchyn self-link ⓘ |
| nativeLanguagePatronymic | Rafailovych ⓘ |
| notableFor |
co-founding PayPal
ⓘ
founding Affirm ⓘ |
| notableWork | development of PayPal anti-fraud systems ⓘ |
| occupation |
business executive
ⓘ
computer scientist ⓘ entrepreneur ⓘ software engineer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Kyiv ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
chairman of the board of directors of Yelp
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chief executive officer of Affirm ⓘ chief technology officer of PayPal ⓘ |
| residence |
San Francisco, California, United States of America
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surface form:
San Francisco, California
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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: Maksymilian Rafailovych Levchyn Description of subject: Maksymilian Rafailovych Levchyn, better known as Max Levchin, is a Ukrainian-American computer scientist and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of PayPal and founder of the fintech company Affirm.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.