Paul Allen
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businessperson
co-founder of Microsoft
computer programmer
entrepreneur
human
investor
philanthropist
Paul Allen was an American entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist best known as the co-founder of Microsoft alongside Bill Gates.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Paul Allen canonical | 54 |
| Paul G. Allen | 6 |
| Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen | 2 |
| Paul Allen is co-founder of Microsoft | 1 |
| Paul Gardner Allen | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T82098 — 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: Paul Allen Context triple: [Microsoft, founder, Paul Allen]
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A.
Bill Gates
Bill Gates is an American business magnate, software pioneer, and philanthropist who co-created the Windows operating system and later co-founded one of the world’s largest charitable foundations.
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B.
Mitchell Kapor
Mitchell Kapor is an American entrepreneur and software pioneer best known for founding Lotus Development Corporation and co-creating the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet, as well as for his philanthropy and advocacy in technology and civil liberties.
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C.
Larry Ellison
Larry Ellison is an American billionaire entrepreneur and co-founder of Oracle Corporation, known for his major influence in the software industry and high-profile philanthropic and business activities.
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D.
Bill and Melinda Gates
Bill and Melinda Gates are American philanthropists best known for founding and leading the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, one of the world’s largest private charitable organizations focused on global health, education, and poverty alleviation.
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E.
Reed Jobs
Reed Jobs is an American investor and philanthropist, known as the son of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and for leading health-focused venture initiatives.
- 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: Paul Allen Target entity description: Paul Allen was an American entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist best known as the co-founder of Microsoft alongside Bill Gates.
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A.
Bill Gates
Bill Gates is an American business magnate, software pioneer, and philanthropist who co-created the Windows operating system and later co-founded one of the world’s largest charitable foundations.
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B.
Mitchell Kapor
Mitchell Kapor is an American entrepreneur and software pioneer best known for founding Lotus Development Corporation and co-creating the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet, as well as for his philanthropy and advocacy in technology and civil liberties.
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C.
Larry Ellison
Larry Ellison is an American billionaire entrepreneur and co-founder of Oracle Corporation, known for his major influence in the software industry and high-profile philanthropic and business activities.
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D.
Bill and Melinda Gates
Bill and Melinda Gates are American philanthropists best known for founding and leading the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, one of the world’s largest private charitable organizations focused on global health, education, and poverty alleviation.
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E.
Reed Jobs
Reed Jobs is an American investor and philanthropist, known as the son of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and for leading health-focused venture initiatives.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Paul Allen Description of subject: Paul Allen was an American entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist best known as the co-founder of Microsoft alongside Bill Gates.
Referenced by (64)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Allen Institute for Cell Science
this entity surface form:
Paul G. Allen
this entity surface form:
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen
subject surface form:
RV Petrel
subject surface form:
RV Petrel