Zero to One
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"Zero to One" is a bestselling business and startup book by entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel that explores how to build innovative companies that create entirely new markets rather than competing in existing ones.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Zero to One canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1186006 — 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: Zero to One Context triple: [Peter Thiel, notableWork, Zero to One]
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A.
Masters of Scale
Masters of Scale is a business and entrepreneurship podcast that explores how companies grow from startup to massive scale through interviews with leading founders and innovators.
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B.
The Start-up of You
The Start-up of You is a career strategy book that applies entrepreneurial principles to personal and professional development, co-written by LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman.
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C.
Built to Last
Built to Last is the final studio album by the American rock band Grateful Dead, released in 1989 and noted for its polished production and later-era songwriting.
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D.
The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur’s Vision of the Future
The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur’s Vision of the Future is a business and technology book that outlines how the next era of the internet will transform major sectors like health, education, and government, and what entrepreneurs must do to succeed in it.
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E.
The Wizard of Menlo Park
The Wizard of Menlo Park is the famous nickname of American inventor Thomas Edison, highlighting his prolific and groundbreaking work at his Menlo Park laboratory.
- 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: Zero to One Target entity description: "Zero to One" is a bestselling business and startup book by entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel that explores how to build innovative companies that create entirely new markets rather than competing in existing ones.
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A.
Masters of Scale
Masters of Scale is a business and entrepreneurship podcast that explores how companies grow from startup to massive scale through interviews with leading founders and innovators.
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B.
The Start-up of You
The Start-up of You is a career strategy book that applies entrepreneurial principles to personal and professional development, co-written by LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman.
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C.
Built to Last
Built to Last is the final studio album by the American rock band Grateful Dead, released in 1989 and noted for its polished production and later-era songwriting.
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D.
The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur’s Vision of the Future
The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur’s Vision of the Future is a business and technology book that outlines how the next era of the internet will transform major sectors like health, education, and government, and what entrepreneurs must do to succeed in it.
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E.
The Wizard of Menlo Park
The Wizard of Menlo Park is the famous nickname of American inventor Thomas Edison, highlighting his prolific and groundbreaking work at his Menlo Park laboratory.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (56)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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business book ⓘ non-fiction book ⓘ startup book ⓘ |
| advocates | creating monopolies through innovation rather than competing in crowded markets ⓘ |
| author | Peter Thiel ⓘ |
| basedOn | Blake Masters Stanford CS183 startup class notes ⓘ |
| bestsellerStatus | New York Times bestseller ⓘ |
| coAuthor | Blake Masters ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| describes | how to build companies that create new markets ⓘ |
| genre |
business
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entrepreneurship ⓘ management ⓘ startup ⓘ |
| isbn10 | 0804139296 ⓘ |
| isbn13 | 9780804139298 ⓘ |
| keyConcept |
definite optimism
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founder-led companies ⓘ horizontal progress ⓘ indefinite optimism ⓘ monopoly as the ideal outcome for a startup ⓘ power law returns ⓘ secrets in business and technology ⓘ vertical progress ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainThesis | The greatest value is created by going from zero to one by building something new rather than copying existing models ⓘ |
| mediaType |
audiobook
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ebook ⓘ print ⓘ |
| notableChapter |
All Happy Companies Are Different
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Foundation ⓘ
surface form:
Foundations
If You Build It, Will They Come? ⓘ Man and Machine ⓘ Party Like It’s 1999 ⓘ Secrets ⓘ Seeing Green ⓘ The Challenge of the Future ⓘ The Founder’s Paradox ⓘ The Ideology of Competition ⓘ The Mechanics of Mafia ⓘ |
| pageCount | 224 ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 2014-09-16 ⓘ |
| publisher |
Crown
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surface form:
Crown Business
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| subject |
business strategy
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innovation ⓘ monopoly ⓘ startups ⓘ technology ⓘ venture capital ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
business students
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entrepreneurs ⓘ investors ⓘ startup founders ⓘ |
| timePeriodDiscussed |
dot-com bubble
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early 21st century technology startups ⓘ |
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: Zero to One Description of subject: "Zero to One" is a bestselling business and startup book by entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel that explores how to build innovative companies that create entirely new markets rather than competing in existing ones.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.