Paul Graham
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e-commerce software company
entrepreneur
essayist
person
programmer
programming language
startup founder
Paul Graham is a British-born American programmer, essayist, and entrepreneur best known for co-founding the influential startup accelerator Y Combinator and for his widely read essays on startups and technology.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Paul Graham canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6180984 — 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: Paul Graham Context triple: [Y Combinator, foundedBy, Paul Graham]
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A.
Fred Wilson
Fred Wilson is a venture capitalist best known as a co-founder of Union Square Ventures and an influential early-stage tech investor and blogger.
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B.
Fred Wilson
Fred Wilson is the ambitious and profit-driven Petrox Oil executive who leads the ill-fated expedition to Skull Island in the 1976 remake of King Kong.
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C.
Tim O'Reilly
Tim O'Reilly is a prominent technology publisher, author, and founder of O'Reilly Media, known for popularizing terms like "open source" and "Web 2.0" and for his influential role in shaping the modern tech industry.
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D.
Ben Horowitz
Ben Horowitz is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and co-founder of the influential Silicon Valley firm Andreessen Horowitz, known for his leadership in tech investing and his writings on startup management.
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E.
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.
- 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: Paul Graham Target entity description: Paul Graham is a British-born American programmer, essayist, and entrepreneur best known for co-founding the influential startup accelerator Y Combinator and for his widely read essays on startups and technology.
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A.
Fred Wilson
Fred Wilson is a venture capitalist best known as a co-founder of Union Square Ventures and an influential early-stage tech investor and blogger.
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B.
Fred Wilson
Fred Wilson is the ambitious and profit-driven Petrox Oil executive who leads the ill-fated expedition to Skull Island in the 1976 remake of King Kong.
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C.
Tim O'Reilly
Tim O'Reilly is a prominent technology publisher, author, and founder of O'Reilly Media, known for popularizing terms like "open source" and "Web 2.0" and for his influential role in shaping the modern tech industry.
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D.
Ben Horowitz
Ben Horowitz is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and co-founder of the influential Silicon Valley firm Andreessen Horowitz, known for his leadership in tech investing and his writings on startup management.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (59)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
e-commerce software company
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entrepreneur ⓘ essayist ⓘ person ⓘ programmer ⓘ programming language ⓘ startup founder ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | Yahoo! NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| acquisitionYear | 1998 ⓘ |
| almaMater |
Cornell University
NERFINISHED
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Harvard University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Cambridge, Massachusetts
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mountain View, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1964-11-13 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Weymouth, Dorset, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coFounded |
Viaweb
NERFINISHED
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Y Combinator NERFINISHED ⓘ Y Combinator NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coFoundedBy |
Paul Graham
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Paul Graham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| degree |
Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy
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Master of Science in Computer Science ⓘ PhD in Computer Science ⓘ |
| doctoralThesisTopic | programming languages ⓘ |
| employer | Y Combinator NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | 21st century ⓘ |
| field |
computer science
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software engineering ⓘ startup investing ⓘ venture capital ⓘ |
| influenced |
early-stage startup funding models
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startup ecosystem in Silicon Valley ⓘ |
| knownFor |
book "Hackers & Painters"
NERFINISHED
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co-founding Y Combinator ⓘ essays on startups and technology ⓘ work on the Lisp programming language ⓘ |
| laterKnownAs | Yahoo! Store NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Paul Graham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality |
American
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British ⓘ |
| notableWork |
"Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age"
NERFINISHED
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essay "Beating the Averages" NERFINISHED ⓘ essay "Do Things that Don't Scale" NERFINISHED ⓘ essay "Hackers and Painters" NERFINISHED ⓘ essay "How to Start a Startup" NERFINISHED ⓘ essay "Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule" NERFINISHED ⓘ essay "Startup = Growth" NERFINISHED ⓘ essay "What You Can't Say" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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computer programmer ⓘ venture capitalist ⓘ |
| paradigm | Lisp dialect ⓘ |
| programmingLanguageDesigned | Arc NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| role |
Y Combinator co-founder
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Y Combinator partner ⓘ |
| spouse | Jessica Livingston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| website | http://www.paulgraham.com/ ⓘ |
| writesIn | English ⓘ |
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: Paul Graham Description of subject: Paul Graham is a British-born American programmer, essayist, and entrepreneur best known for co-founding the influential startup accelerator Y Combinator and for his widely read essays on startups and technology.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.