Ben Silbermann
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Ben Silbermann is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and former CEO of the visual discovery platform Pinterest.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ben Silbermann canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5277975 — 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)
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Target entity: Ben Silbermann Context triple: [Pinterest, founders, Ben Silbermann]
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A.
Bryan Greenberg
Bryan Greenberg is an American actor and singer best known for his roles in television series like "One Tree Hill" and "How to Make It in America," as well as various romantic comedies.
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B.
Jason Kliot
Jason Kliot is an American film producer known for his work on independent and documentary films, including the acclaimed Enron exposé "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room."
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C.
Josh Srebnick
Josh Srebnick is a central character in the film "While We're Young," portrayed as a middle-aged documentary filmmaker grappling with ambition, authenticity, and aging in contrast to a younger creative couple.
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D.
Jon Rubinstein
Jon Rubinstein is an American computer engineer and executive best known for his key role in developing Apple's iPod and later leading Palm as CEO.
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E.
Jeremy Stoppelman
Jeremy Stoppelman is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and longtime CEO of Yelp, a popular online review platform for local businesses.
- 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: Ben Silbermann Target entity description: Ben Silbermann is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and former CEO of the visual discovery platform Pinterest.
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A.
Bryan Greenberg
Bryan Greenberg is an American actor and singer best known for his roles in television series like "One Tree Hill" and "How to Make It in America," as well as various romantic comedies.
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B.
Jason Kliot
Jason Kliot is an American film producer known for his work on independent and documentary films, including the acclaimed Enron exposé "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room."
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C.
Josh Srebnick
Josh Srebnick is a central character in the film "While We're Young," portrayed as a middle-aged documentary filmmaker grappling with ambition, authenticity, and aging in contrast to a younger creative couple.
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D.
Jon Rubinstein
Jon Rubinstein is an American computer engineer and executive best known for his key role in developing Apple's iPod and later leading Palm as CEO.
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E.
Jeremy Stoppelman
Jeremy Stoppelman is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and longtime CEO of Yelp, a popular online review platform for local businesses.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
entrepreneur
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| activeIn | 21st century ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Silicon Valley startup ecosystem ⓘ |
| boardMemberOf |
Pinterest
ⓘ
linked to:
Pinterest, Inc.
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| businessArea |
e-commerce enablement
ⓘ
online advertising ⓘ |
| coFounded |
Pinterest
ⓘ
linked to:
Pinterest, Inc.
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| coFounderWith |
Evan Sharp
ⓘ
Paul Sciarra ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Yale University ⓘ |
| employer |
Pinterest
ⓘ
linked to:
Pinterest, Inc.
|
| familyName | Silbermann ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
online visual discovery
ⓘ
social media ⓘ technology industry ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Ben ⓘ |
| hasAchievement | built Pinterest into a major social media platform ⓘ |
| hasBusinessFocus |
consumer internet products
ⓘ
visual discovery platforms ⓘ |
| hasLeadershipStyle | product-focused leadership at Pinterest ⓘ |
| hasPublicProfileOn |
LinkedIn
ⓘ
Pinterest ⓘ
linked to:
Pinterest, Inc.
Twitter ⓘ
linked to:
Twitter, Inc.
|
| hasRecognition | recognized as a prominent tech entrepreneur ⓘ |
| hasRole | product leader at Pinterest ⓘ |
| industry |
internet
ⓘ
software ⓘ |
| knownFor | co-founding Pinterest ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Ben Silbermann ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableRole | former CEO of Pinterest ⓘ |
| notableWork | Pinterest ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessperson
ⓘ
entrepreneur ⓘ technology executive ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
CEO of Pinterest
ⓘ
co-founder of Pinterest ⓘ |
| residence | San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ |
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: Ben Silbermann Description of subject: Ben Silbermann is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and former CEO of the visual discovery platform Pinterest.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.