Larry Bock
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Larry Bock was an American entrepreneur and venture capitalist best known for founding and backing numerous successful biotechnology companies.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Larry Bock canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4850310 — 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: Larry Bock Context triple: [Illumina, foundedBy, Larry Bock]
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A.
Larry Bock
Larry Bock is a film editor best known for his work on the 1990 cult drama "Pump Up the Volume."
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B.
Dale Doback
Dale Doback is a childish, unemployed middle-aged man who becomes a reluctant stepbrother and comedic foil to Brennan Huff in the film "Step Brothers."
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C.
Charlie Korsmo
Charlie Korsmo is an American former child actor and current law professor best known for his roles in early 1990s films such as "Dick Tracy," "Hook," and "What About Bob?".
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D.
Dale Bowers
Dale Bowers is an Anglican bishop who serves as the ecclesiastical leader of the Diocese of St Helena, overseeing the church’s ministry on the remote South Atlantic islands of St Helena and Ascension.
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E.
Larry Kellner
Larry Kellner is an American business executive best known for leading Continental Airlines as its chief executive officer.
- 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: Larry Bock Target entity description: Larry Bock was an American entrepreneur and venture capitalist best known for founding and backing numerous successful biotechnology companies.
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A.
Larry Bock
Larry Bock is a film editor best known for his work on the 1990 cult drama "Pump Up the Volume."
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B.
Dale Doback
Dale Doback is a childish, unemployed middle-aged man who becomes a reluctant stepbrother and comedic foil to Brennan Huff in the film "Step Brothers."
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C.
Charlie Korsmo
Charlie Korsmo is an American former child actor and current law professor best known for his roles in early 1990s films such as "Dick Tracy," "Hook," and "What About Bob?".
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D.
Dale Bowers
Dale Bowers is an Anglican bishop who serves as the ecclesiastical leader of the Diocese of St Helena, overseeing the church’s ministry on the remote South Atlantic islands of St Helena and Ascension.
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E.
Larry Kellner
Larry Kellner is an American business executive best known for leading Continental Airlines as its chief executive officer.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biotechnology entrepreneur
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businessperson ⓘ entrepreneur ⓘ |
| advocatedFor | STEM education ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kavli Science Communication Award (organizer recognition) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | pancreatic cancer ⓘ |
| coFounded |
Avalon Ventures portfolio companies
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Caliper Life Sciences NERFINISHED ⓘ Gen-Probe NERFINISHED ⓘ Idun Pharmaceuticals NERFINISHED ⓘ Illumina NERFINISHED ⓘ Nanosys NERFINISHED ⓘ Neurocrine Biosciences NERFINISHED ⓘ Pharmacopeia NERFINISHED ⓘ Trega Biosciences NERFINISHED ⓘ Vertex Pharmaceuticals NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1959 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2016 ⓘ |
| degree |
bachelor's degree in chemistry
ⓘ
master's degree in biochemistry ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Bowdoin College
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
University of California, San Diego NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
biotechnology
ⓘ
life sciences ⓘ |
| founded | USA Science & Engineering Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild |
one daughter
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one son ⓘ |
| knownFor |
early-stage life science investing
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serial entrepreneurship in biotechnology ⓘ |
| notableFor |
backing biotechnology companies
ⓘ
founding USA Science & Engineering Festival ⓘ founding biotechnology companies ⓘ |
| occupation |
entrepreneur
ⓘ
venture capitalist ⓘ |
| organized | national science festivals in the United States ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Brooklyn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | La Jolla NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | partner at Avalon Ventures ⓘ |
| residence | San Diego NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Diane Bock NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stateOfBirth | New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stateOfDeath | California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedAt | Avalon Ventures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Larry Bock Description of subject: Larry Bock was an American entrepreneur and venture capitalist best known for founding and backing numerous successful biotechnology companies.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.