Vinod Khosla
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Vinod Khosla is an Indian-American engineer, billionaire venture capitalist, and co-founder of Sun Microsystems known for his influential role in Silicon Valley and early-stage technology investing.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Vinod Khosla canonical | 18 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T542278 — 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: Vinod Khosla Context triple: [Sun Microsystems, foundedBy, Vinod Khosla]
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A.
Mitchell Kapor
Mitchell Kapor is an American entrepreneur and software pioneer best known for founding Lotus Development Corporation and co-creating the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet, as well as for his philanthropy and advocacy in technology and civil liberties.
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B.
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.
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C.
Pat Gelsinger
Pat Gelsinger is an American engineer and technology executive who serves as the CEO of Intel and is known for leading the company’s strategic and manufacturing turnaround efforts.
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D.
Mike Markkula
Mike Markkula is an American entrepreneur and early investor who played a crucial role in the founding and initial growth of Apple Computer, serving as its first major backer and a key executive.
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E.
Steve Case
Steve Case is an American entrepreneur and investor best known as the co-founder and former CEO of AOL, a pioneering internet services company.
- 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: Vinod Khosla Target entity description: Vinod Khosla is an Indian-American engineer, billionaire venture capitalist, and co-founder of Sun Microsystems known for his influential role in Silicon Valley and early-stage technology investing.
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A.
Mitchell Kapor
Mitchell Kapor is an American entrepreneur and software pioneer best known for founding Lotus Development Corporation and co-creating the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet, as well as for his philanthropy and advocacy in technology and civil liberties.
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B.
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.
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C.
Pat Gelsinger
Pat Gelsinger is an American engineer and technology executive who serves as the CEO of Intel and is known for leading the company’s strategic and manufacturing turnaround efforts.
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D.
Mike Markkula
Mike Markkula is an American entrepreneur and early investor who played a crucial role in the founding and initial growth of Apple Computer, serving as its first major backer and a key executive.
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E.
Steve Case
Steve Case is an American entrepreneur and investor best known as the co-founder and former CEO of AOL, a pioneering internet services company.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Indian-American
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billionaire ⓘ engineer ⓘ entrepreneur ⓘ person ⓘ venture capitalist ⓘ |
| almaMater |
CMU
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surface form:
Carnegie Mellon University
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi ⓘ Stanford Graduate School of Business ⓘ |
| birthCountry | India ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1955-01-28 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Pune ⓘ |
| boardMemberOf | Sun Microsystems ⓘ |
| citizenship |
India
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| coFounderOf | Sun Microsystems ⓘ |
| degree |
Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering
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Master of Business Administration ⓘ Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Indian ⓘ |
| familyName |
Siddhartha Khosla
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surface form:
Khosla
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| fieldOfWork |
clean technology investing
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technology entrepreneurship ⓘ venture capital ⓘ |
| founded | Khosla Ventures ⓘ |
| givenName | Vinod ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Anu Khosla
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Neeru Khosla ⓘ
surface form:
Nina Khosla
Vani Khosla ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-founding Sun Microsystems
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early-stage technology investing ⓘ influential role in Silicon Valley ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
Hindi ⓘ |
| name | Vinod Khosla self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | Indian-American ⓘ |
| notableInvestmentArea |
clean energy
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healthcare technology ⓘ information technology ⓘ |
| notableWork | early investment in technology startups ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessperson
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engineer ⓘ venture capitalist ⓘ |
| position | founder of Khosla Ventures ⓘ |
| residence |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
Silicon Valley ⓘ |
| spouse | Neeru Khosla ⓘ |
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: Vinod Khosla Description of subject: Vinod Khosla is an Indian-American engineer, billionaire venture capitalist, and co-founder of Sun Microsystems known for his influential role in Silicon Valley and early-stage technology investing.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Sun Microsystems