Marc
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Marc is the given name of Marc Andreessen, the influential American entrepreneur, software engineer, and venture capitalist known for co-creating the Mosaic web browser and co-founding Netscape and Andreessen Horowitz.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Marc canonical | 56 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T374213 — 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: Marc Context triple: [Marc Andreessen, givenName, Marc]
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A.
Mark
Mark is the given name of Mark Zuckerberg, the American technology entrepreneur and co-founder of Facebook.
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B.
Martin
Martin is the given name of Martin Luther King Jr., the prominent American civil rights leader and Baptist minister who advocated nonviolent resistance to racial segregation.
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C.
Anthony
Anthony is a masculine given name of Latin origin, commonly used in English-speaking countries.
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D.
Carl
Carl is the given name of Carl Sagan, the renowned American astronomer, science communicator, and author.
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E.
Neil
Neil is the given name of Neil deGrasse Tyson, a prominent American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator.
- 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: Marc Target entity description: Marc is the given name of Marc Andreessen, the influential American entrepreneur, software engineer, and venture capitalist known for co-creating the Mosaic web browser and co-founding Netscape and Andreessen Horowitz.
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A.
Mark
Mark is the given name of Mark Zuckerberg, the American technology entrepreneur and co-founder of Facebook.
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B.
Martin
Martin is the given name of Martin Luther King Jr., the prominent American civil rights leader and Baptist minister who advocated nonviolent resistance to racial segregation.
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C.
Anthony
Anthony is a masculine given name of Latin origin, commonly used in English-speaking countries.
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D.
Carl
Carl is the given name of Carl Sagan, the renowned American astronomer, science communicator, and author.
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E.
Neil
Neil is the given name of Neil deGrasse Tyson, a prominent American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| coCreated |
Mosaic (web browser)
ⓘ
surface form:
Mosaic web browser
|
| coFounded |
Andreessen Horowitz
ⓘ
Loudcloud ⓘ Netscape Communications Corporation ⓘ Opsware ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign ⓘ |
| employer |
Andreessen Horowitz
ⓘ
National Center for Supercomputing Applications ⓘ
surface form:
NCSA (National Center for Supercomputing Applications)
Netscape Communications Corporation ⓘ |
| familyName |
Marc Andreessen
ⓘ
surface form:
Andreessen
|
| fieldOfWork |
computer science
ⓘ
internet technology ⓘ software development ⓘ venture capital ⓘ |
| founded |
Andreessen Horowitz
ⓘ
Loudcloud ⓘ Opsware ⓘ |
| givenName | Marc self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| hasRole |
board director
ⓘ
startup advisor ⓘ technology thought leader ⓘ |
| industry |
technology
ⓘ
venture capital ⓘ |
| influenced | development of commercial web browsers ⓘ |
| influencedBy | growth of the internet ⓘ |
| knownFor |
early web browser development
ⓘ
high-profile technology investments ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
co-creating one of the first widely used web browsers
ⓘ
popularizing the World Wide Web ⓘ |
| notableIdea | “software is eating the world” thesis ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Mosaic (web browser)
ⓘ
surface form:
Mosaic web browser
Netscape Navigator ⓘ
surface form:
Netscape Communicator
Netscape Navigator ⓘ Software is eating the world ⓘ
surface form:
“Why Software Is Eating the World”
|
| occupation |
businessperson
ⓘ
entrepreneur ⓘ investor ⓘ software engineer ⓘ venture capitalist ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
board member of Facebook
ⓘ
board member of Hewlett-Packard ⓘ board member of Meta Platforms ⓘ board member of eBay ⓘ general partner at Andreessen Horowitz ⓘ |
| residence | Silicon Valley ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: Marc Description of subject: Marc is the given name of Marc Andreessen, the influential American entrepreneur, software engineer, and venture capitalist known for co-creating the Mosaic web browser and co-founding Netscape and Andreessen Horowitz.
Referenced by (56)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Marc Tarpenning