Elizabeth Holmes
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Elizabeth Holmes is the disgraced founder and former CEO of the blood-testing startup Theranos, known for her fraudulent claims about revolutionary medical technology.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Elizabeth Holmes canonical | 14 |
| Elizabeth Anne Holmes | 1 |
| Elizabeth Holmes – founder and CEO | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4688015 — 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: Elizabeth Holmes Context triple: [The Dropout, portrays, Elizabeth Holmes]
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A.
Sandy Lerner
Sandy Lerner is an American businesswoman and philanthropist best known as the co-founder of networking giant Cisco Systems and later as a supporter of animal welfare, sustainable agriculture, and literary scholarship.
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B.
Donna Zuckerberg
Donna Zuckerberg is a classicist, writer, and editor-in-chief of the online journal Eidolon, known for her work on how the classics are used in contemporary culture and online misogyny.
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C.
Janet Wojcicki
Janet Wojcicki is an American epidemiologist and academic researcher known for her work in public health and nutrition.
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D.
Angel McClary Raich
Angel McClary Raich is a medical marijuana patient and activist who was a central figure in the U.S. Supreme Court case challenging federal authority over state-legal cannabis use.
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E.
Stanley Wojcicki
Stanley Wojcicki is a Polish-American physicist and longtime Stanford University professor known both for his contributions to particle physics and as the father of tech executive Susan Wojcicki.
- 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: Elizabeth Holmes Target entity description: Elizabeth Holmes is the disgraced founder and former CEO of the blood-testing startup Theranos, known for her fraudulent claims about revolutionary medical technology.
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A.
Sandy Lerner
Sandy Lerner is an American businesswoman and philanthropist best known as the co-founder of networking giant Cisco Systems and later as a supporter of animal welfare, sustainable agriculture, and literary scholarship.
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B.
Donna Zuckerberg
Donna Zuckerberg is a classicist, writer, and editor-in-chief of the online journal Eidolon, known for her work on how the classics are used in contemporary culture and online misogyny.
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C.
Janet Wojcicki
Janet Wojcicki is an American epidemiologist and academic researcher known for her work in public health and nutrition.
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D.
Angel McClary Raich
Angel McClary Raich is a medical marijuana patient and activist who was a central figure in the U.S. Supreme Court case challenging federal authority over state-legal cannabis use.
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E.
Stanley Wojcicki
Stanley Wojcicki is a Polish-American physicist and longtime Stanford University professor known both for his contributions to particle physics and as the father of tech executive Susan Wojcicki.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
business executive
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convicted fraudster ⓘ entrepreneur ⓘ human ⓘ |
| ban | barred from owning or operating a clinical laboratory for two years (2016) ⓘ |
| businessModel | direct-to-consumer blood testing ⓘ |
| charge |
conspiracy to commit wire fraud
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wire fraud ⓘ |
| companyValuationPeak | approximately 9 billion US dollars ⓘ |
| convictedOf |
conspiracy to commit wire fraud
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wire fraud ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1984-02-03 ⓘ |
| dateOfConviction | 2022-01-03 ⓘ |
| dateOfImprisonment | 2023-05-30 ⓘ |
| dropoutFrom | Stanford University ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Stanford University ⓘ |
| familyName | Holmes ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy | chemical engineering ⓘ |
| formerStatus | youngest self-made female billionaire (Forbes, later revoked) ⓘ |
| founded | Theranos ⓘ |
| foundedInYear | 2003 ⓘ |
| fullName |
Elizabeth Anne Holmes
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linked to:
Elizabeth Holmes
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| givenName | Elizabeth ⓘ |
| hasChild |
daughter (born 2023)
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son (born 2021) ⓘ |
| industry |
biotechnology
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healthcare technology ⓘ |
| knownFor |
claims about revolutionary blood-testing technology
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founding Theranos ⓘ involvement in major corporate fraud scandal ⓘ |
| mediaAppearance |
subject of HBO documentary "The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley"
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subject of Hulu miniseries "The Dropout" ⓘ |
| notableWork | promotion of Theranos Edison blood-testing device ⓘ |
| numberOfCountsConvicted | 4 ⓘ |
| parent |
Christian Holmes IV
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Noel Holmes ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Washington, D.C., United States
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linked to:
Washington, D.C.
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| placeOfDetention | Federal Prison Camp, Bryan ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Chairwoman of Theranos
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Chief Executive Officer of Theranos ⓘ |
| regulatoryIssue | sanction by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ⓘ |
| residence | California, United States ⓘ |
| sentence | 135 months in federal prison ⓘ |
| spouse | William "Billy" Evans ⓘ |
| trialCourt | United States District Court for the Northern District of California ⓘ |
| trialLocation | San Jose, California, United States ⓘ |
| voiceCharacteristic | distinctively deep speaking voice ⓘ |
| yearOfDroppingOut | 2003 ⓘ |
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: Elizabeth Holmes Description of subject: Elizabeth Holmes is the disgraced founder and former CEO of the blood-testing startup Theranos, known for her fraudulent claims about revolutionary medical technology.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Taylor Dunn
subject linked to:
Taylor Dunn
linked to: Elizabeth Holmes
linked to: Elizabeth Holmes
subject linked to:
Victoria Thompson
subject linked to:
ABC News podcast The Dropout