Blake Masters
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Blake Masters is an American venture capitalist, author, and Republican political figure known for co-authoring "Zero to One" with Peter Thiel and running for the U.S. Senate in Arizona.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Blake Masters canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6091397 — 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: Blake Masters Context triple: [The Stanford Review, notableAlumnus, Blake Masters]
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A.
Art Stevens
Art Stevens was an American animator and film director best known for his work on classic Walt Disney animated features in the mid-20th century.
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B.
Gray Mitchell
Gray Mitchell is a young boy featured in the Jurassic World film series, known as Claire Dearing’s nephew who visits the dinosaur theme park during its catastrophic outbreak.
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C.
Ray Smith
Ray Smith is the semi-autobiographical narrator and spiritual seeker in Jack Kerouac’s novel "The Dharma Bums," embodying the author’s explorations of Buddhism, nature, and Beat Generation ideals.
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D.
Stephen Bishop
Stephen Bishop is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist best known for his soft rock hits of the 1970s and 1980s and for contributing songs to numerous film soundtracks.
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E.
Sam Merlotte
Sam Merlotte is a shapeshifting bar owner and central figure in the supernatural drama series "True Blood."
- 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: Blake Masters Target entity description: Blake Masters is an American venture capitalist, author, and Republican political figure known for co-authoring "Zero to One" with Peter Thiel and running for the U.S. Senate in Arizona.
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A.
Brian Masterson
Brian Masterson is an Irish recording engineer and producer best known for his influential work in the music industry and for co-founding Dublin’s renowned Windmill Lane Studios.
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B.
Art Stevens
Art Stevens was an American animator and film director best known for his work on classic Walt Disney animated features in the mid-20th century.
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C.
Gray Mitchell
Gray Mitchell is a young boy featured in the Jurassic World film series, known as Claire Dearing’s nephew who visits the dinosaur theme park during its catastrophic outbreak.
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D.
Ray Smith
Ray Smith is the semi-autobiographical narrator and spiritual seeker in Jack Kerouac’s novel "The Dharma Bums," embodying the author’s explorations of Buddhism, nature, and Beat Generation ideals.
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E.
Stephen Bishop
Stephen Bishop is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist best known for his soft rock hits of the 1970s and 1980s and for contributing songs to numerous film soundtracks.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Republican Party politician
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human ⓘ politician ⓘ venture capitalist ⓘ |
| candidateInElection | 2022 United States Senate election in Arizona ⓘ |
| citizenshipStatus | American ⓘ |
| coAuthor | Peter Thiel ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Stanford Law School
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Stanford University ⓘ |
| employer | Thiel Capital ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
politics
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startups ⓘ technology investing ⓘ |
| genre |
business literature
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non-fiction ⓘ |
| hasPoliticalActivityIn | Arizona ⓘ |
| hasRole |
Republican Senate candidate from Arizona
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co-author of Zero to One ⓘ |
| ideology |
conservatism
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right-wing populism ⓘ |
| isKnownFor |
Thiel-influenced political positions
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association with Peter Thiel ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Thiel Capital ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Republican candidacy for U.S. Senate in Arizona
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co-authoring Zero to One ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Zero to One
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Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future ⓘ
linked to:
Zero to One
|
| occupation |
author
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politician ⓘ venture capitalist ⓘ |
| partyAffiliation | Republican Party ⓘ |
| politicalParty | Republican Party ⓘ |
| positionHeld | president of the Thiel Foundation ⓘ |
| ranForOffice | United States Senate from Arizona ⓘ |
| residence | Arizona ⓘ |
| supportedBy |
Donald Trump
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Peter Thiel ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Arizona
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California ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
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| writesAbout |
entrepreneurship
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startups ⓘ technology ⓘ |
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: Blake Masters Description of subject: Blake Masters is an American venture capitalist, author, and Republican political figure known for co-authoring "Zero to One" with Peter Thiel and running for the U.S. Senate in Arizona.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.