Straubel
E168854
Straubel is a surname most prominently associated with JB Straubel, the co-founder and former Chief Technology Officer of Tesla, Inc.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1475834 — 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: Straubel Context triple: [JB Straubel, familyName, Straubel]
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A.
Strelsau
Strelsau is the fictional capital city of the kingdom of Ruritania in Anthony Hope’s adventure novel "The Prisoner of Zenda."
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B.
Blaustein
Blaustein is a municipality in the Alb-Donau district of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany, situated near the city of Ulm.
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C.
Smidovich
Smidovich is an urban-type settlement in Russia’s Jewish Autonomous Oblast, serving as a local administrative and population center in the region.
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D.
Steffl
Steffl is the popular nickname for the iconic south tower of St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna, a prominent symbol of the city's skyline.
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E.
Kritzinger
Kritzinger is a German surname most notably associated with Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger, a high-ranking Nazi official involved in the administrative planning of the Holocaust.
- 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: Straubel Target entity description: Straubel is a surname most prominently associated with JB Straubel, the co-founder and former Chief Technology Officer of Tesla, Inc.
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A.
Strelsau
Strelsau is the fictional capital city of the kingdom of Ruritania in Anthony Hope’s adventure novel "The Prisoner of Zenda."
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B.
Blaustein
Blaustein is a municipality in the Alb-Donau district of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany, situated near the city of Ulm.
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C.
Smidovich
Smidovich is an urban-type settlement in Russia’s Jewish Autonomous Oblast, serving as a local administrative and population center in the region.
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D.
Steffl
Steffl is the popular nickname for the iconic south tower of St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna, a prominent symbol of the city's skyline.
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E.
Kritzinger
Kritzinger is a German surname most notably associated with Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger, a high-ranking Nazi official involved in the administrative planning of the Holocaust.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
business executive
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engineer ⓘ entrepreneur ⓘ family name ⓘ human ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| coFoundedBy | JB Straubel ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Stanford University
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Stanford University School of Engineering ⓘ
linked to:
School of Engineering at Stanford University
|
| employer |
Redwood Materials
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Tesla, Inc. ⓘ |
| familyName | Straubel ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
battery technology
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electric vehicles ⓘ electrical engineering ⓘ energy storage ⓘ |
| founded | Redwood Materials ⓘ |
| foundedBy | JB Straubel ⓘ |
| givenName | Jeffrey ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDegree |
Bachelor of Science in Energy Systems Engineering
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Master of Science in Energy Engineering ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin | German ⓘ |
| hasNotableAssociation | Tesla, Inc. ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | JB Straubel ⓘ |
| hasSpellingVariant | Sträubel ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-founding Tesla, Inc.
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work on electric vehicle powertrains ⓘ |
| nickname | JB ⓘ |
| notableWork |
development of Tesla Model S powertrain
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development of Tesla Roadster battery system ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Chief Technology Officer of Tesla, Inc.
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member of the board of directors of Tesla, Inc. ⓘ |
| workLocation |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
|
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: Straubel Description of subject: Straubel is a surname most prominently associated with JB Straubel, the co-founder and former Chief Technology Officer of Tesla, Inc.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.