Mike Krieger
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Mike Krieger is a Brazilian-American entrepreneur and software engineer best known as the co-founder and former CTO of the photo-sharing social media platform Instagram.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mike Krieger canonical | 12 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T279892 — 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)
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Target entity: Mike Krieger Context triple: [Instagram, founder, Mike Krieger]
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A.
Kevin Yagher
Kevin Yagher is an American special effects and makeup artist and director best known for his work on horror and fantasy films and for creating iconic genre characters.
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B.
Jim Konstanty
Jim Konstanty was an American Major League Baseball relief pitcher best known for his standout 1950 season with the Philadelphia Phillies, during which he won the National League MVP award.
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C.
Chris Stolte
Chris Stolte is a computer scientist and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and former chief development officer of the data visualization company Tableau Software.
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D.
Keith Fraase
Keith Fraase is a film editor best known for his work on the movie "Chappaquiddick."
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E.
Brian VanDeMark
Brian VanDeMark is an American historian and author known for his work on U.S. foreign policy and the Vietnam War, including coauthoring influential studies of that conflict.
- 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: Mike Krieger Target entity description: Mike Krieger is a Brazilian-American entrepreneur and software engineer best known as the co-founder and former CTO of the photo-sharing social media platform Instagram.
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A.
Kevin Yagher
Kevin Yagher is an American special effects and makeup artist and director best known for his work on horror and fantasy films and for creating iconic genre characters.
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B.
Jim Konstanty
Jim Konstanty was an American Major League Baseball relief pitcher best known for his standout 1950 season with the Philadelphia Phillies, during which he won the National League MVP award.
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C.
Chris Stolte
Chris Stolte is a computer scientist and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and former chief development officer of the data visualization company Tableau Software.
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D.
Keith Fraase
Keith Fraase is a film editor best known for his work on the movie "Chappaquiddick."
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E.
Brian VanDeMark
Brian VanDeMark is an American historian and author known for his work on U.S. foreign policy and the Vietnam War, including coauthoring influential studies of that conflict.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
entrepreneur
ⓘ
human ⓘ photo-sharing social media platform ⓘ software engineer ⓘ technology executive ⓘ |
| activeIn | 21st century ⓘ |
| basedIn |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| citizenship |
Brazil
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| coFounded | Instagram ⓘ |
| coFounder |
Kevin Systrom
ⓘ
Mike Krieger self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Brazil ⓘ |
| developer | Mike Krieger self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Stanford University ⓘ |
| employer | Instagram ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | Brazilian ⓘ |
| familyName | Krieger ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
mobile applications
ⓘ
social media technology ⓘ software engineering ⓘ |
| givenName |
Michael
ⓘ
surface form:
Mike
|
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| hasRole |
CTO
ⓘ
startup founder ⓘ |
| hasSocialMediaFocus |
mobile photography
ⓘ
photo sharing ⓘ |
| industry |
social media industry
ⓘ
social networking ⓘ technology industry ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-founding Instagram
ⓘ
serving as CTO of Instagram ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
Portuguese ⓘ |
| name | Mike Krieger self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | Brazilian-American ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | helping build Instagram into a major global social media platform ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Instagram
ⓘ
surface form:
Instagram mobile app
|
| occupation |
chief technology officer
ⓘ
entrepreneur ⓘ software engineer ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Chief Technology Officer of Instagram ⓘ |
| residence |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| studied | symbolic systems ⓘ |
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: Mike Krieger Description of subject: Mike Krieger is a Brazilian-American entrepreneur and software engineer best known as the co-founder and former CTO of the photo-sharing social media platform Instagram.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Instagram
subject surface form:
Instagram