Arthur Rock & Co.
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Arthur Rock & Co. is a venture capital firm established by pioneering Silicon Valley investor Arthur Rock, known for backing early-stage technology companies.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Arthur Rock & Co. canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2125595 — 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: Arthur Rock & Co. Context triple: [Arthur Rock, founded, Arthur Rock & Co.]
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A.
Holabird & Roche
Holabird & Roche was a prominent Chicago-based architectural firm known for its influential early skyscraper designs and major civic projects in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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B.
Bates Smart
Bates Smart is a prominent Australian architecture and design firm known for shaping contemporary urban landscapes through major cultural, commercial, and civic projects.
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C.
Waddell & Hardesty
Waddell & Hardesty was an American engineering and architectural firm known for designing major steel bridges and other large-scale infrastructure projects in the early 20th century.
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D.
Sullivan & Worcester
Sullivan & Worcester is a Boston-based law firm known for its corporate, tax, and real estate practices and its work with business and financial clients.
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E.
Kallmann McKinnell & Knowles
Kallmann McKinnell & Knowles was a prominent 20th-century American architectural firm known for its influential Brutalist designs and major civic projects.
- 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: Arthur Rock & Co. Target entity description: Arthur Rock & Co. is a venture capital firm established by pioneering Silicon Valley investor Arthur Rock, known for backing early-stage technology companies.
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A.
Holabird & Roche
Holabird & Roche was a prominent Chicago-based architectural firm known for its influential early skyscraper designs and major civic projects in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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B.
Bates Smart
Bates Smart is a prominent Australian architecture and design firm known for shaping contemporary urban landscapes through major cultural, commercial, and civic projects.
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C.
Waddell & Hardesty
Waddell & Hardesty was an American engineering and architectural firm known for designing major steel bridges and other large-scale infrastructure projects in the early 20th century.
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D.
Sullivan & Worcester
Sullivan & Worcester is a Boston-based law firm known for its corporate, tax, and real estate practices and its work with business and financial clients.
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E.
Kallmann McKinnell & Knowles
Kallmann McKinnell & Knowles was a prominent 20th-century American architectural firm known for its influential Brutalist designs and major civic projects.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (21)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
businessperson
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venture capital firm ⓘ venture capitalist ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Silicon Valley venture capital ecosystem ⓘ |
| businessModel | early-stage technology investing ⓘ |
| countryOfOperation |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| focusesOn |
early-stage companies
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technology companies ⓘ |
| founded | Arthur Rock & Co. self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Arthur Rock ⓘ |
| founder | Arthur Rock ⓘ |
| hasKeyPerson | Arthur Rock ⓘ |
| hasReputation | backer of early-stage technology companies ⓘ |
| industry |
financial services
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venture capital ⓘ |
| knownFor | pioneering Silicon Valley venture capital ⓘ |
| locatedInArea | Silicon Valley ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Arthur Rock ⓘ |
| occupation | investor ⓘ |
| operatesInSector | technology investment ⓘ |
| typeOfBusinessEntity | private company ⓘ |
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: Arthur Rock & Co. Description of subject: Arthur Rock & Co. is a venture capital firm established by pioneering Silicon Valley investor Arthur Rock, known for backing early-stage technology companies.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Arthur Rock