Joe Lonsdale
E443298
Joe Lonsdale is an American entrepreneur and investor best known as a co-founder of the data analytics company Palantir Technologies and as a prominent venture capitalist in Silicon Valley.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Joe Lonsdale canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4424488 — 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: Joe Lonsdale Context triple: [Palantir Technologies, foundedBy, Joe Lonsdale]
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A.
John Dolman
John Dolman was an English clergyman and benefactor of the late 16th century best known for establishing Pocklington School in Yorkshire.
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B.
Ben Durrant
Ben Durrant is a musician best known as a member of the indie supergroup Gayngs.
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C.
Tom Lassally
Tom Lassally is a film producer best known for his work on major Hollywood science fiction and action movies.
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D.
Rod Liddle
Rod Liddle is a British journalist and commentator known for his provocative columns and outspoken views on politics and culture.
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E.
Guy Bensley
Guy Bensley is a film editor best known for his work on the comedy spy film "Johnny English Reborn."
- 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: Joe Lonsdale Target entity description: Joe Lonsdale is an American entrepreneur and investor best known as a co-founder of the data analytics company Palantir Technologies and as a prominent venture capitalist in Silicon Valley.
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A.
John Dolman
John Dolman was an English clergyman and benefactor of the late 16th century best known for establishing Pocklington School in Yorkshire.
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B.
Ben Durrant
Ben Durrant is a musician best known as a member of the indie supergroup Gayngs.
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C.
Tom Lassally
Tom Lassally is a film producer best known for his work on major Hollywood science fiction and action movies.
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D.
Rod Liddle
Rod Liddle is a British journalist and commentator known for his provocative columns and outspoken views on politics and culture.
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E.
Guy Bensley
Guy Bensley is a film editor best known for his work on the comedy spy film "Johnny English Reborn."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
company founder
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entrepreneur ⓘ human ⓘ investor ⓘ venture capitalist ⓘ |
| businessRegion |
Silicon Valley
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United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| coFounded | Palantir Technologies ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Palantir Technologies ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
data analytics industry
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technology entrepreneurship ⓘ venture capital ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Joe ⓘ |
| hasRole | co-founder of Palantir Technologies ⓘ |
| industry |
data analytics
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software ⓘ technology ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being a prominent venture capitalist in Silicon Valley
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co-founding Palantir Technologies ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Joe Lonsdale ⓘ |
| notableWork | Palantir Technologies ⓘ |
| occupation |
company founder
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entrepreneur ⓘ investor ⓘ venture capitalist ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Silicon Valley ⓘ |
| residence | Silicon Valley ⓘ |
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: Joe Lonsdale Description of subject: Joe Lonsdale is an American entrepreneur and investor best known as a co-founder of the data analytics company Palantir Technologies and as a prominent venture capitalist in Silicon Valley.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.