SVB
E605418
SVB (Silicon Valley Bank) was a major U.S. commercial bank known for specializing in banking services for technology startups, venture capital firms, and high-growth companies.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| SVB canonical | 2 |
| SVB Financial Group | 1 |
| Silicon Valley Bank | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6549426 — 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: SVB Context triple: [AOW, administeredBy, SVB]
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A.
SARB
SARB is the central bank of South Africa, responsible for formulating and implementing the country’s monetary policy and maintaining financial stability.
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B.
SBI
SBI is the ICAO airline designator used to identify S7 Airlines in international aviation operations.
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C.
Washington Mutual
Washington Mutual was a former major U.S. savings and loan association that became the largest bank failure in American history during the 2008 financial crisis.
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D.
SimCorp
SimCorp is a global provider of investment management software and services used by asset managers, pension funds, and other financial institutions to manage complex portfolios and operations.
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E.
Wells Fargo
Wells Fargo is a large American multinational financial services company and one of the biggest banks in the United States.
- 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: SVB Target entity description: SVB (Silicon Valley Bank) was a major U.S. commercial bank known for specializing in banking services for technology startups, venture capital firms, and high-growth companies.
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A.
SARB
SARB is the central bank of South Africa, responsible for formulating and implementing the country’s monetary policy and maintaining financial stability.
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B.
SBI
SBI is the ICAO airline designator used to identify S7 Airlines in international aviation operations.
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C.
Washington Mutual
Washington Mutual was a former major U.S. savings and loan association that became the largest bank failure in American history during the 2008 financial crisis.
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D.
SimCorp
SimCorp is a global provider of investment management software and services used by asset managers, pension funds, and other financial institutions to manage complex portfolios and operations.
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E.
Wells Fargo
Wells Fargo is a large American multinational financial services company and one of the biggest banks in the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (58)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
commercial bank
ⓘ
public company ⓘ subsidiary ⓘ |
| abbreviation | SVB ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | First Citizens BancShares ⓘ |
| acquisitionDate | March 2023 ⓘ |
| assetsAtCollapse | over 200 billion U.S. dollars ⓘ |
| clientele |
life sciences companies
ⓘ
private equity funds ⓘ startup companies ⓘ technology companies ⓘ venture capital funds ⓘ |
| collapsed | March 10, 2023 ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| depositsAtCollapse | over 170 billion U.S. dollars ⓘ |
| failureType |
bank run
ⓘ
liquidity crisis ⓘ |
| focus |
high-growth companies
ⓘ
life sciences companies ⓘ private equity firms ⓘ technology startups ⓘ venture capital firms ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Bill Biggerstaff
ⓘ
Robert Medearis ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
Santa Clara, California
ⓘ
linked to:
Santa Clara
|
| inception | 1983 ⓘ |
| industry |
banking
ⓘ
financial services ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Silicon Valley ⓘ |
| notableClient |
Circle
ⓘ
Etsy ⓘ Roblox ⓘ Roku ⓘ |
| notableEvent | second-largest bank failure in U.S. history at the time of collapse ⓘ |
| openedForBusiness | 1983 ⓘ |
| parentCompany |
SVB Financial Group
ⓘ
linked to:
SVB
|
| product |
asset management
ⓘ
commercial banking services ⓘ foreign exchange services ⓘ private banking ⓘ treasury and cash management ⓘ venture debt ⓘ |
| regulator | California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation ⓘ |
| regulatoryStatusAfterCollapse | receivership ⓘ |
| sameAs |
Silicon Valley Bank
ⓘ
linked to:
SVB
|
| servedRegion |
Canada
ⓘ
China ⓘ Germany ⓘ India ⓘ Israel ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| servedSector |
innovation economy
ⓘ
venture-backed ecosystem ⓘ |
| stockExchange | NASDAQ ⓘ |
| successor | Silicon Valley Bridge Bank, N.A. ⓘ |
| takenOverBy | Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol | SIVB ⓘ |
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: SVB Description of subject: SVB (Silicon Valley Bank) was a major U.S. commercial bank known for specializing in banking services for technology startups, venture capital firms, and high-growth companies.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
old-age pension law (AOW) in the Netherlands
subject linked to:
SVB