Peter Thiel
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Peter Thiel is a German-American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and political activist best known as a co-founder of PayPal and an early investor in Facebook.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Peter Thiel canonical | 33 |
| Peter Andreas Thiel | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T146223 — 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: Peter Thiel Context triple: [PayPal, foundedBy, Peter Thiel]
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A.
Reid Hoffman
Reid Hoffman is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and co-founder of LinkedIn, known for his influential role in the tech industry and philanthropy.
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B.
Dustin Moskovitz
Dustin Moskovitz is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as a co-founder of Facebook and the productivity software company Asana.
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C.
Max Levchin
Max Levchin is a Ukrainian-American computer scientist and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of PayPal and a prominent figure in Silicon Valley’s fintech industry.
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D.
Marc Andreessen
Marc Andreessen is an American entrepreneur, software engineer, and venture capitalist best known as the co-creator of the Mosaic web browser and co-founder of Netscape and the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.
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E.
Mitchell Kapor
Mitchell Kapor is an American entrepreneur and software pioneer best known for founding Lotus Development Corporation and co-creating the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet, as well as for his philanthropy and advocacy in technology and civil liberties.
- 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: Peter Thiel Target entity description: Peter Thiel is a German-American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and political activist best known as a co-founder of PayPal and an early investor in Facebook.
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A.
Reid Hoffman
Reid Hoffman is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and co-founder of LinkedIn, known for his influential role in the tech industry and philanthropy.
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B.
Dustin Moskovitz
Dustin Moskovitz is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as a co-founder of Facebook and the productivity software company Asana.
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C.
Max Levchin
Max Levchin is a Ukrainian-American computer scientist and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of PayPal and a prominent figure in Silicon Valley’s fintech industry.
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D.
Marc Andreessen
Marc Andreessen is an American entrepreneur, software engineer, and venture capitalist best known as the co-creator of the Mosaic web browser and co-founder of Netscape and the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.
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E.
Mitchell Kapor
Mitchell Kapor is an American entrepreneur and software pioneer best known for founding Lotus Development Corporation and co-creating the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet, as well as for his philanthropy and advocacy in technology and civil liberties.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (55)
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: Peter Thiel Description of subject: Peter Thiel is a German-American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and political activist best known as a co-founder of PayPal and an early investor in Facebook.
Referenced by (34)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Peter Andreas Thiel