Michael Moritz
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Michael Moritz is a Welsh-born venture capitalist, former journalist, and longtime Sequoia Capital partner known for early investments in companies like Google and for his major philanthropic contributions to education and the arts.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Michael Moritz canonical | 9 |
| Sir Michael Moritz | 2 |
| Michael E. Moritz | 1 |
| Sir Michael Jonathan Moritz | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4946281 — 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: Michael Moritz Context triple: [Crankstart, foundedBy, Michael Moritz]
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A.
Jonathan Tisch
Jonathan Tisch is an American businessman and philanthropist best known as the chairman and CEO of Loews Hotels and co-owner of the New York Giants.
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B.
Vinod Khosla
Vinod Khosla is an Indian-American engineer, billionaire venture capitalist, and co-founder of Sun Microsystems known for his influential role in Silicon Valley and early-stage technology investing.
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C.
Peter Thiel
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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D.
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.
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E.
Edward Zuckerberg
Edward Zuckerberg is an American dentist and technology enthusiast best known as the father of Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg.
- 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: Michael Moritz Target entity description: Michael Moritz is a Welsh-born venture capitalist, former journalist, and longtime Sequoia Capital partner known for early investments in companies like Google and for his major philanthropic contributions to education and the arts.
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A.
Jonathan Tisch
Jonathan Tisch is an American businessman and philanthropist best known as the chairman and CEO of Loews Hotels and co-owner of the New York Giants.
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B.
Vinod Khosla
Vinod Khosla is an Indian-American engineer, billionaire venture capitalist, and co-founder of Sun Microsystems known for his influential role in Silicon Valley and early-stage technology investing.
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C.
Peter Thiel
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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D.
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.
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E.
Edward Zuckerberg
Edward Zuckerberg is an American dentist and technology enthusiast best known as the father of Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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journalist ⓘ philanthropist ⓘ venture capitalist ⓘ |
| authorOf |
Return to the Little Kingdom
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linked to:
The Little Kingdom
The Little Kingdom ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Knight Bachelor for services to promoting British economic interests and philanthropy ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1954-09-12 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Cardiff, Wales
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linked to:
Cardiff
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| boardMemberOf |
Google (past)
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linked to:
Google
PayPal (past) ⓘ
linked to:
PayPal
Yahoo! (past) ⓘ
linked to:
Yahoo
|
| citizenship |
United Kingdom
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United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| degree | Bachelor of Arts in History ⓘ |
| donatedTo |
Christ Church, Oxford
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Juilliard School ⓘ University of Oxford ⓘ various cultural institutions in the United States ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Christ Church, Oxford ⓘ |
| employer | Sequoia Capital ⓘ |
| fullName |
Sir Michael Jonathan Moritz
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linked to:
Michael Moritz
|
| honorificTitle | Knight Bachelor ⓘ |
| industry | technology investing ⓘ |
| investedIn |
Google
ⓘ
Instacart ⓘ LinkedIn ⓘ PayPal ⓘ Stripe ⓘ Yahoo! ⓘ
linked to:
Yahoo
Zappos ⓘ |
| knownFor |
early investment in Google
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major philanthropic donations to education ⓘ major philanthropic donations to the arts ⓘ partnership at Sequoia Capital ⓘ |
| name | Michael Moritz ⓘ |
| nationality | Welsh ⓘ |
| notableDonation | large scholarship gift to the University of Oxford ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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journalist ⓘ philanthropist ⓘ venture capitalist ⓘ |
| philanthropyFocus |
higher education
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scholarships ⓘ the arts ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
chairman of Sequoia Capital
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partner at Sequoia Capital ⓘ |
| residence |
San Francisco, California
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linked to:
San Francisco
|
| spouse | Harriet Heyman ⓘ |
| subjectOfWriting | history of Apple Computer ⓘ |
| workedAs | journalist at Time magazine ⓘ |
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: Michael Moritz Description of subject: Michael Moritz is a Welsh-born venture capitalist, former journalist, and longtime Sequoia Capital partner known for early investments in companies like Google and for his major philanthropic contributions to education and the arts.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Michael Moritz
linked to: Michael Moritz
subject linked to:
Michael Moritz is a venture capitalist
subject linked to:
Harriet Heyman is a novelist
subject linked to:
Harriet Heyman is a novelist
linked to: Michael Moritz
subject linked to:
Harriet Heyman is a novelist
subject linked to:
Harriet Heyman is a novelist
linked to: Michael Moritz