Bill Maris
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Bill Maris is an American venture capitalist and entrepreneur best known as the founder and former CEO of Google Ventures (GV) and a prominent investor in life sciences and technology.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bill Maris canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1633909 — 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: Bill Maris Context triple: [Calico LLC, foundedBy, Bill Maris]
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A.
Marvin Miller
Marvin Miller was a pioneering American labor leader who transformed Major League Baseball by building the players’ union into a powerful force that secured free agency, salary arbitration, and major gains in players’ rights and compensation.
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B.
Ozzie Silna
Ozzie Silna was an American businessman best known for striking an extraordinarily lucrative television revenue deal during the ABA–NBA merger as a former co-owner of the Spirits of St. Louis basketball team.
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C.
Tom Luddy
Tom Luddy was an American film producer, curator, and influential cinephile best known as a co-founder and long-time guiding force of the Telluride Film Festival.
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D.
Walt Bellamy
Walt Bellamy was an American Hall of Fame center and Olympic gold medalist who became one of the NBA’s dominant scorers and rebounders during the 1960s.
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E.
Jon Bosak
Jon Bosak is a computer scientist best known for leading the original XML specification effort at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which helped standardize data interchange on the web.
- 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: Bill Maris Target entity description: Bill Maris is an American venture capitalist and entrepreneur best known as the founder and former CEO of Google Ventures (GV) and a prominent investor in life sciences and technology.
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A.
Marvin Miller
Marvin Miller was a pioneering American labor leader who transformed Major League Baseball by building the players’ union into a powerful force that secured free agency, salary arbitration, and major gains in players’ rights and compensation.
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B.
Ozzie Silna
Ozzie Silna was an American businessman best known for striking an extraordinarily lucrative television revenue deal during the ABA–NBA merger as a former co-owner of the Spirits of St. Louis basketball team.
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C.
Tom Luddy
Tom Luddy was an American film producer, curator, and influential cinephile best known as a co-founder and long-time guiding force of the Telluride Film Festival.
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D.
Walt Bellamy
Walt Bellamy was an American Hall of Fame center and Olympic gold medalist who became one of the NBA’s dominant scorers and rebounders during the 1960s.
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E.
Jon Bosak
Jon Bosak is a computer scientist best known for leading the original XML specification effort at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which helped standardize data interchange on the web.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
business executive
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entrepreneur ⓘ human ⓘ venture capitalist ⓘ |
| boardMemberOf |
several portfolio companies of Google Ventures
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several portfolio companies of Section 32 ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Middlebury College ⓘ |
| employer | Google Ventures ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
life sciences
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technology ⓘ venture capital ⓘ |
| hasActivity | public speaking on technology and healthcare innovation ⓘ |
| hasFounded |
Google Ventures
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Section 32 ⓘ |
| hasRole |
early-stage investor
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growth-stage investor ⓘ |
| industry |
biotech industry
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technology industry ⓘ venture capital industry ⓘ |
| investmentFocus |
artificial intelligence
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biotechnology ⓘ healthcare ⓘ robotics ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being former CEO of Google Ventures
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founding Google Ventures ⓘ investing in life sciences companies ⓘ investing in technology companies ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| notableInvestment |
23andMe
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Cloudera ⓘ DocuSign ⓘ Flatiron Health ⓘ LendingClub ⓘ Medium ⓘ Nest Labs ⓘ One Medical ⓘ Slack ⓘ Uber ⓘ |
| notableWork | building Google Ventures into a major venture capital firm ⓘ |
| occupation |
entrepreneur
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investor ⓘ technology executive ⓘ venture capitalist ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
chief executive officer of Google Ventures
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founder of Google Ventures ⓘ founder of Section 32 ⓘ managing partner of Section 32 ⓘ |
| residence |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
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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: Bill Maris Description of subject: Bill Maris is an American venture capitalist and entrepreneur best known as the founder and former CEO of Google Ventures (GV) and a prominent investor in life sciences and technology.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.