Amir Shinar
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Amir Shinar is an Israeli entrepreneur and software engineer best known as one of the co-founders of the GPS navigation and traffic app Waze.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Amir Shinar canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3419336 — 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: Amir Shinar Context triple: [Waze, foundedBy, Amir Shinar]
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A.
Yariv Lerner
Yariv Lerner is a film producer best known for his work on action movies, including serving as a producer on "Rambo: Last Blood."
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B.
Ephraim Katzir
Ephraim Katzir was an Israeli biophysicist and politician who served as the fourth President of Israel and was renowned for his pioneering work in the field of protein chemistry.
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C.
Uri Michaeli
Uri Michaeli was an Israeli aviation pioneer and early civil pilot whose contributions to local flight development led to Haifa Airport being named in his honor.
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D.
Doron Peled
Doron Peled is a computer scientist known for his contributions to formal methods and model checking, particularly in collaboration with Edmund M. Clarke.
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E.
Yoav Nir
Yoav Nir is a computer scientist and cryptography expert known for his work on internet security standards, including co-authoring RFC 7539 on the ChaCha20 and Poly1305 encryption algorithms.
- 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: Amir Shinar Target entity description: Amir Shinar is an Israeli entrepreneur and software engineer best known as one of the co-founders of the GPS navigation and traffic app Waze.
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A.
Yariv Lerner
Yariv Lerner is a film producer best known for his work on action movies, including serving as a producer on "Rambo: Last Blood."
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B.
Ephraim Katzir
Ephraim Katzir was an Israeli biophysicist and politician who served as the fourth President of Israel and was renowned for his pioneering work in the field of protein chemistry.
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C.
Uri Michaeli
Uri Michaeli was an Israeli aviation pioneer and early civil pilot whose contributions to local flight development led to Haifa Airport being named in his honor.
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D.
Doron Peled
Doron Peled is a computer scientist known for his contributions to formal methods and model checking, particularly in collaboration with Edmund M. Clarke.
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E.
Yoav Nir
Yoav Nir is a computer scientist and cryptography expert known for his work on internet security standards, including co-authoring RFC 7539 on the ChaCha20 and Poly1305 encryption algorithms.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
businessperson
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entrepreneur ⓘ human ⓘ software engineer ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Waze ⓘ |
| coFounded | Waze ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Israel ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
mobile applications
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navigation software ⓘ software engineering ⓘ traffic information systems ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasRole | co-founder of Waze ⓘ |
| industry |
mobile app industry
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software industry ⓘ technology industry ⓘ |
| knownFor | co-founding Waze ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Hebrew ⓘ |
| nationality | Israeli ⓘ |
| notableFor |
GPS navigation app development
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real-time traffic data applications ⓘ |
| notableWork | Waze ⓘ |
| occupation |
entrepreneur
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software engineer ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Israel ⓘ |
| residence | Israel ⓘ |
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: Amir Shinar Description of subject: Amir Shinar is an Israeli entrepreneur and software engineer best known as one of the co-founders of the GPS navigation and traffic app Waze.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.