Jessica Livingston
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Jessica Livingston is an American author and investor best known as a co-founder and early driving force behind the influential startup accelerator Y Combinator.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jessica Livingston canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6180985 — 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: Jessica Livingston Context triple: [Y Combinator, foundedBy, Jessica Livingston]
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A.
Sarah Livingston Jay
Sarah Livingston Jay was an American socialite and political hostess from the influential Livingston family who played a key role in early U.S. diplomatic and political circles as the wife of statesman John Jay.
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B.
Catharina Livingston
Catharina Livingston was a member of the prominent Livingston family of colonial New York and the mother of patroon and politician Stephen Van Rensselaer.
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C.
Mary DeWitt
Mary DeWitt was the mother of prominent early 19th-century New York politician and governor DeWitt Clinton.
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D.
Elizabeth Parker
Elizabeth Parker is a British composer and sound designer best known for her electronic music and soundscapes created at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
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E.
Mary Lambert
Mary Lambert is an American singer-songwriter and spoken word artist best known for her emotional, LGBTQ+-themed music and her collaboration on Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’s hit song "Same Love."
- 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: Jessica Livingston Target entity description: Jessica Livingston is an American author and investor best known as a co-founder and early driving force behind the influential startup accelerator Y Combinator.
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A.
Sarah Livingston Jay
Sarah Livingston Jay was an American socialite and political hostess from the influential Livingston family who played a key role in early U.S. diplomatic and political circles as the wife of statesman John Jay.
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B.
Catharina Livingston
Catharina Livingston was a member of the prominent Livingston family of colonial New York and the mother of patroon and politician Stephen Van Rensselaer.
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C.
Mary DeWitt
Mary DeWitt was the mother of prominent early 19th-century New York politician and governor DeWitt Clinton.
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D.
Elizabeth Parker
Elizabeth Parker is a British composer and sound designer best known for her electronic music and soundscapes created at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
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E.
Mary Lambert
Mary Lambert is an American singer-songwriter and spoken word artist best known for her emotional, LGBTQ+-themed music and her collaboration on Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’s hit song "Same Love."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
investor
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person ⓘ startup investor ⓘ |
| almaMater | Pomona College ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Hacker News community
ⓘ
YC alumni network ⓘ |
| authorOf | Founders at Work ⓘ |
| coFounderOf | Y Combinator ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| degree | bachelor's degree ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Buckingham Browne & Nichols School
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Pomona College ⓘ |
| employer | Y Combinator ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
entrepreneurship
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startups ⓘ venture capital ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genre | non-fiction ⓘ |
| hasRoleIn |
selection of startups funded by Y Combinator
ⓘ
supporting portfolio companies of Y Combinator ⓘ |
| hasWrittenAbout |
early-stage companies
ⓘ
entrepreneurial journeys ⓘ startup founders ⓘ |
| influenced | startup accelerator ecosystem ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-founding Y Combinator
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linked to:
Y Combinator
early leadership at Y Combinator ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Y Combinator partnership ⓘ |
| name | Jessica Livingston ⓘ |
| nationality |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| notableActivity | mentoring early-stage startup founders ⓘ |
| notableIdea | early-stage founder-centric accelerator model at Y Combinator ⓘ |
| notableProject | organization of Y Combinator Startup School ⓘ |
| notableRole | advocate for female founders ⓘ |
| notableWork | Founders at Work ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
ⓘ
investor ⓘ startup mentor ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
founding partner at Y Combinator
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partner at Y Combinator ⓘ |
| publicationLanguage | English ⓘ |
| residence |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| spouse | Paul Graham ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Silicon Valley ⓘ |
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: Jessica Livingston Description of subject: Jessica Livingston is an American author and investor best known as a co-founder and early driving force behind the influential startup accelerator Y Combinator.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.