SoftBank Vision Fund
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SoftBank Vision Fund is a large technology-focused investment fund backed by Japan’s SoftBank Group that makes substantial, long-term bets on high-growth companies worldwide.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| SoftBank Vision Fund canonical | 9 |
| SoftBank Vision Fund 2 | 6 |
| SoftBank Vision Fund 1 | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T136279 — 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: SoftBank Vision Fund Context triple: [Cruise LLC, majorShareholder, SoftBank Vision Fund]
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A.
Element AI
Element AI was a Montreal-based artificial intelligence company and research lab known for developing enterprise AI solutions and advancing deep learning research.
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B.
RedBird Capital Partners
RedBird Capital Partners is a private investment firm known for its significant stakes in major sports, media, and entertainment properties.
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C.
Cohen Private Ventures
Cohen Private Ventures is a family office investment firm founded by billionaire hedge fund manager Steve Cohen, managing his personal and family assets across a range of private and public investments.
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D.
OpenAI
OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research organization best known for developing advanced AI models such as ChatGPT and GPT series.
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E.
DeepMind
DeepMind is a leading artificial intelligence research company renowned for breakthroughs such as AlphaGo and deep reinforcement learning, operating as a subsidiary of Google.
- 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: SoftBank Vision Fund Target entity description: SoftBank Vision Fund is a large technology-focused investment fund backed by Japan’s SoftBank Group that makes substantial, long-term bets on high-growth companies worldwide.
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A.
Element AI
Element AI was a Montreal-based artificial intelligence company and research lab known for developing enterprise AI solutions and advancing deep learning research.
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B.
RedBird Capital Partners
RedBird Capital Partners is a private investment firm known for its significant stakes in major sports, media, and entertainment properties.
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C.
Cohen Private Ventures
Cohen Private Ventures is a family office investment firm founded by billionaire hedge fund manager Steve Cohen, managing his personal and family assets across a range of private and public investments.
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D.
OpenAI
OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research organization best known for developing advanced AI models such as ChatGPT and GPT series.
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E.
DeepMind
DeepMind is a leading artificial intelligence research company renowned for breakthroughs such as AlphaGo and deep reinforcement learning, operating as a subsidiary of Google.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
investment fund
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private equity fund ⓘ technology investment fund ⓘ venture capital fund ⓘ |
| announced | 2016 ⓘ |
| backedBy |
Apple Inc.
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Foxconn ⓘ Mubadala Investment Company ⓘ Qualcomm ⓘ Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund ⓘ Sharp Corporation ⓘ SoftBank Group ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Japan ⓘ |
| currency |
US dollar
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surface form:
United States dollar
|
| focusesOn |
growth equity
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high-growth companies ⓘ late-stage investments ⓘ technology sector ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Masayoshi Son ⓘ |
| hasSubFund |
SoftBank Vision Fund
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
SoftBank Vision Fund 2
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| headquartersLocation |
London, England
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surface form:
London
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| industry |
private equity
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technology investing ⓘ venture capital ⓘ |
| investmentStyle |
concentrated bets
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large check sizes ⓘ long-term ⓘ |
| investsIn |
ARM-related companies
ⓘ
Coupang ⓘ Didi Chuxing ⓘ DoorDash ⓘ Grab ⓘ Ola Cabs ⓘ Slack ⓘ
surface form:
Slack Technologies
Uber ⓘ
surface form:
Uber Technologies
WeWork ⓘ |
| keyPerson |
Masayoshi Son
ⓘ
Rajeev Misra ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
announced Vision Fund 2 in 2019
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launched first fund of nearly 100 billion US dollars ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | SoftBank Group ⓘ |
| portfolioFocus |
artificial intelligence
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e-commerce ⓘ enterprise software ⓘ fintech ⓘ logistics ⓘ ride-hailing ⓘ |
| regionServed | worldwide ⓘ |
| strategy | backing market-leading technology platforms ⓘ |
| subsidiaryOf | SoftBank Investment Advisers ⓘ |
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: SoftBank Vision Fund Description of subject: SoftBank Vision Fund is a large technology-focused investment fund backed by Japan’s SoftBank Group that makes substantial, long-term bets on high-growth companies worldwide.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
SoftBank Vision Fund 2
this entity surface form:
SoftBank Vision Fund 2
this entity surface form:
SoftBank Vision Fund 2
this entity surface form:
SoftBank Vision Fund 1
this entity surface form:
SoftBank Vision Fund 2
this entity surface form:
SoftBank Vision Fund 2
subject surface form:
Cruise LLC