Winklevoss twins
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The Winklevoss twins are American entrepreneurs and former Olympic rowers best known for their legal dispute with Mark Zuckerberg over the origins of Facebook and for founding the cryptocurrency exchange Gemini.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Winklevoss twins canonical | 5 |
| Winklevoss | 2 |
| Winklevoss brothers | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10364533 — 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: Winklevoss twins Context triple: [The Accidental Billionaires, subject, Winklevoss twins]
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A.
Tyler Winklevoss
Tyler Winklevoss is an American entrepreneur, Olympic rower, and co-founder of the cryptocurrency exchange Gemini, best known for his legal dispute with Mark Zuckerberg over the origins of Facebook.
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B.
Cameron Winklevoss
Cameron Winklevoss is an American entrepreneur, Olympic rower, and co-founder of the cryptocurrency exchange Gemini, known for his early involvement with Facebook alongside his twin brother Tyler.
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C.
Roger McNamee
Roger McNamee is an American investor, venture capitalist, and musician best known as a co-founder of the private equity firm Silver Lake Partners and an early investor in major technology companies.
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D.
Eduardo Saverin
Eduardo Saverin is a Brazilian-born entrepreneur and investor best known as one of the original co-founders of Facebook.
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E.
Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg
Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg are a philanthropist couple best known for co-founding the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and for Zuckerberg’s role as the co-founder and CEO of Facebook (now Meta Platforms).
- 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: Winklevoss twins Target entity description: The Winklevoss twins are American entrepreneurs and former Olympic rowers best known for their legal dispute with Mark Zuckerberg over the origins of Facebook and for founding the cryptocurrency exchange Gemini.
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A.
Tyler Winklevoss
Tyler Winklevoss is an American entrepreneur, Olympic rower, and co-founder of the cryptocurrency exchange Gemini, best known for his legal dispute with Mark Zuckerberg over the origins of Facebook.
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B.
Cameron Winklevoss
Cameron Winklevoss is an American entrepreneur, Olympic rower, and co-founder of the cryptocurrency exchange Gemini, known for his early involvement with Facebook alongside his twin brother Tyler.
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C.
Roger McNamee
Roger McNamee is an American investor, venture capitalist, and musician best known as a co-founder of the private equity firm Silver Lake Partners and an early investor in major technology companies.
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D.
Eduardo Saverin
Eduardo Saverin is a Brazilian-born entrepreneur and investor best known as one of the original co-founders of Facebook.
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E.
Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg
Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg are a philanthropist couple best known for co-founding the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and for Zuckerberg’s role as the co-founder and CEO of Facebook (now Meta Platforms).
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American businesspeople
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entrepreneurial duo ⓘ twin brothers ⓘ |
| advocatesFor | regulated cryptocurrency markets ⓘ |
| alumniOf |
Harvard University rowing program
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linked to:
Harvard Crimson men’s rowing
Oxford University Boat Club ⓘ |
| basedIn | New York City ⓘ |
| businessFocus |
cryptocurrency
ⓘ
digital asset trading ⓘ venture capital investing ⓘ |
| businessInterest |
Bitcoin
ⓘ
blockchain technology ⓘ |
| coFounded |
ConnectU
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Gemini cryptocurrency exchange ⓘ |
| competedIn | 2008 Summer Olympics ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| disputeWith | Mark Zuckerberg ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard University
ⓘ
University of Oxford ⓘ |
| event | men's coxless pair rowing ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
financial technology
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technology entrepreneurship ⓘ |
| founded | Winklevoss Capital Management ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| industry |
cryptocurrency exchange industry
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social networking (early involvement) ⓘ |
| knownFor |
early involvement in social networking site ConnectU
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settlement with Facebook ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| legalCase | Winklevoss v. Facebook ⓘ |
| mediaAppearance | numerous interviews on cryptocurrency regulation ⓘ |
| member |
Cameron Winklevoss
ⓘ
Tyler Winklevoss ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
building one of the first regulated cryptocurrency exchanges in the U.S.
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representing the United States in Olympic rowing ⓘ |
| notableFor |
co-founding cryptocurrency exchange Gemini
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legal dispute with Mark Zuckerberg over Facebook ⓘ |
| notableWork | development of Gemini as a regulated cryptocurrency exchange ⓘ |
| occupation |
entrepreneurs
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investors ⓘ rowers ⓘ |
| participatedIn | American collegiate rowing ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Armie Hammer ⓘ |
| portrayedIn |
film "The Social Network"
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linked to:
The Social Network
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| settlementWith |
Facebook, Inc.
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linked to:
Facebook
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| siblingRelationship | identical twins ⓘ |
| sport | rowing ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Winklevoss twins Description of subject: The Winklevoss twins are American entrepreneurs and former Olympic rowers best known for their legal dispute with Mark Zuckerberg over the origins of Facebook and for founding the cryptocurrency exchange Gemini.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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