Reid Hoffman
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Reid Hoffman is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and co-founder of LinkedIn, known for his influential role in the tech industry and philanthropy.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Reid Hoffman canonical | 23 |
| Reid Garrett Hoffman | 1 |
| Reid Hoffman is co-founder of LinkedIn | 1 |
| co-founding LinkedIn | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T57103 — 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: Reid Hoffman Context triple: [The Giving Pledge, hasNotableSignatory, Reid Hoffman]
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A.
Sergey Brin
Sergey Brin is a computer scientist and internet entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of Google.
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B.
Marc Benioff
Marc Benioff is an American billionaire entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of cloud software company Salesforce.
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C.
Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg is an American technology entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as the co-founder and CEO of Facebook (now Meta Platforms).
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D.
Marc Andreessen
Marc Andreessen is an American entrepreneur, software engineer, and venture capitalist best known as the co-creator of the Mosaic web browser and co-founder of Netscape and the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.
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E.
Larry Page
Larry Page is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and former CEO of Google and its parent company Alphabet Inc.
- 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: Reid Hoffman Target entity description: Reid Hoffman is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and co-founder of LinkedIn, known for his influential role in the tech industry and philanthropy.
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A.
Sergey Brin
Sergey Brin is a computer scientist and internet entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of Google.
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B.
Marc Benioff
Marc Benioff is an American billionaire entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of cloud software company Salesforce.
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C.
Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg is an American technology entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as the co-founder and CEO of Facebook (now Meta Platforms).
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D.
Marc Andreessen
Marc Andreessen is an American entrepreneur, software engineer, and venture capitalist best known as the co-creator of the Mosaic web browser and co-founder of Netscape and the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.
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E.
Larry Page
Larry Page is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and former CEO of Google and its parent company Alphabet Inc.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
author
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entrepreneur ⓘ human ⓘ philanthropist ⓘ podcast host ⓘ venture capitalist ⓘ |
| boardMemberOf | LinkedIn ⓘ |
| coAuthorOf |
Blitzscaling
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The Alliance ⓘ The Start-up of You ⓘ |
| coFounderOf | LinkedIn ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1967-08-05 ⓘ |
| degree |
Bachelor of Science in Symbolic Systems
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Master of Studies in Philosophy ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Stanford University
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The Queen's College, Oxford ⓘ |
| employer | LinkedIn ⓘ |
| familyName | Hoffman ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
entrepreneurship
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technology industry ⓘ venture capital ⓘ |
| founded | LinkedIn ⓘ |
| fullName |
Reid Hoffman
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Reid Garrett Hoffman
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| genre | business literature ⓘ |
| givenName | Reid ⓘ |
| hostOf | Masters of Scale ⓘ |
| joined | Greylock Partners ⓘ |
| knownFor |
business and career strategy books
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co-founding LinkedIn ⓘ investments in technology startups ⓘ podcast Masters of Scale ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | PayPal Mafia ⓘ |
| notableWork | LinkedIn ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
ⓘ
business executive ⓘ entrepreneur ⓘ podcast host ⓘ venture capitalist ⓘ |
| partnerAt | Greylock Partners ⓘ |
| philanthropicFocus |
civic engagement
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education ⓘ technology for social good ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Palo Alto, California
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surface form:
Palo Alto, California, United States
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| residence | California, United States ⓘ |
| role | executive vice president at PayPal ⓘ |
| spouse | Michelle Yee ⓘ |
| workedAt | PayPal ⓘ |
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: Reid Hoffman Description of subject: Reid Hoffman is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and co-founder of LinkedIn, known for his influential role in the tech industry and philanthropy.
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Reid Garrett Hoffman
this entity surface form:
Reid Hoffman is co-founder of LinkedIn
subject surface form:
Masters of Scale
subject surface form:
Masters of Scale
subject surface form:
Masters of Scale