Tom Alberg
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Tom Alberg was an American lawyer, venture capitalist, and early Amazon investor known for co-founding the venture capital firm Madrona Venture Group.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tom Alberg canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1163196 — 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)
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Target entity: Tom Alberg Context triple: [Lakeside School, hasAlumnus, Tom Alberg]
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A.
James Algar
James Algar was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter best known for his long career at Walt Disney Studios, where he worked on both animated features and nature documentaries.
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B.
Ray Cusick
Ray Cusick was a British designer best known for creating the iconic look of the Daleks in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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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.
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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E.
Bobby McDermott
Bobby McDermott was an American professional basketball guard widely regarded as one of the greatest players of the pre-NBA era, known for his prolific scoring and multiple championships in the 1930s and 1940s.
- 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: Tom Alberg Target entity description: Tom Alberg was an American lawyer, venture capitalist, and early Amazon investor known for co-founding the venture capital firm Madrona Venture Group.
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A.
James Algar
James Algar was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter best known for his long career at Walt Disney Studios, where he worked on both animated features and nature documentaries.
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B.
Ray Cusick
Ray Cusick was a British designer best known for creating the iconic look of the Daleks in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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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.
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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E.
Bobby McDermott
Bobby McDermott was an American professional basketball guard widely regarded as one of the greatest players of the pre-NBA era, known for his prolific scoring and multiple championships in the 1930s and 1940s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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investor ⓘ lawyer ⓘ venture capitalist ⓘ |
| boardMemberOf |
Amazon
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surface form:
Amazon.com, Inc.
various technology startups in the Pacific Northwest ⓘ |
| coFounded | Madrona Venture Group ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Columbia Law School
ⓘ
Harvard University ⓘ
surface form:
Harvard College
|
| employer |
Madrona Venture Group
ⓘ
Perkins Coie ⓘ |
| familyName | Alberg ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
technology investments
ⓘ
venture capital ⓘ |
| givenName | Tom ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDegree |
bachelor's degree
ⓘ
law degree ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| hasRole |
co-founder of Madrona Venture Group
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early-stage technology investor ⓘ |
| industry |
law
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technology ⓘ venture capital ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being an early investor in Amazon
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co-founding Madrona Venture Group ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | board of directors of Amazon.com, Inc. ⓘ |
| notableRole | early backer of Jeff Bezos and Amazon ⓘ |
| notableWork | supporting early-stage Pacific Northwest technology companies ⓘ |
| occupation |
board member
ⓘ
business executive ⓘ lawyer ⓘ venture capitalist ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Pacific Northwest ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
director of Amazon.com, Inc.
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managing director at Madrona Venture Group ⓘ partner at Perkins Coie ⓘ |
| residence |
Seattle, Washington, United States
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surface form:
Seattle, Washington
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| workLocation |
Seattle, Washington, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Seattle, Washington
|
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: Tom Alberg Description of subject: Tom Alberg was an American lawyer, venture capitalist, and early Amazon investor known for co-founding the venture capital firm Madrona Venture Group.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.