Roger McNamee
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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.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Roger McNamee canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1622433 — 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: Roger McNamee Context triple: [Silver Lake Partners, foundedBy, Roger McNamee]
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A.
Fred Wilson
Fred Wilson is the ambitious and profit-driven Petrox Oil executive who leads the ill-fated expedition to Skull Island in the 1976 remake of King Kong.
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B.
Peter Thiel
Peter Thiel is a German-American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and political activist best known as a co-founder of PayPal and an early investor in Facebook.
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C.
Dustin Moskovitz
Dustin Moskovitz is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as a co-founder of Facebook and the productivity software company Asana.
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D.
Reid Hoffman
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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E.
Michael Arrington
Michael Arrington is an American entrepreneur, lawyer, and influential tech blogger best known as the founder of the technology news site TechCrunch.
- 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: Roger McNamee Target entity description: 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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A.
Fred Wilson
Fred Wilson is the ambitious and profit-driven Petrox Oil executive who leads the ill-fated expedition to Skull Island in the 1976 remake of King Kong.
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B.
Peter Thiel
Peter Thiel is a German-American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and political activist best known as a co-founder of PayPal and an early investor in Facebook.
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C.
Dustin Moskovitz
Dustin Moskovitz is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as a co-founder of Facebook and the productivity software company Asana.
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D.
Reid Hoffman
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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E.
Michael Arrington
Michael Arrington is an American entrepreneur, lawyer, and influential tech blogger best known as the founder of the technology news site TechCrunch.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Roger McNamee Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.