Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
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Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is a prominent Silicon Valley venture capital firm known for early investments in major technology companies such as Google and Amazon.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kleiner Perkins | 4 |
| Eugene Kleiner co-founded Kleiner Perkins venture capital firm | 1 |
| Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers canonical | 1 |
| Kleiner Perkins Fellows Program | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2150184 — 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: Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Context triple: [Arielle Zuckerberg, employer, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers]
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A.
Thiel Capital
Thiel Capital is an investment firm and family office managing the personal capital and strategic ventures of billionaire entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel.
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B.
Mohr Davidow Ventures
Mohr Davidow Ventures is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm known for investing in early-stage technology and life sciences startups.
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C.
Andreessen Horowitz
Andreessen Horowitz is a prominent Silicon Valley venture capital firm known for backing leading technology startups across software, fintech, crypto, and other innovation-driven sectors.
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D.
Kapor Capital
Kapor Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on investing in technology-driven startups that aim to close gaps in access, opportunity, and outcomes for underserved communities.
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E.
Founders Fund
Founders Fund is a Silicon Valley venture capital firm known for backing ambitious, transformative technology companies at early and growth stages.
- 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: Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Target entity description: Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is a prominent Silicon Valley venture capital firm known for early investments in major technology companies such as Google and Amazon.
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A.
Thiel Capital
Thiel Capital is an investment firm and family office managing the personal capital and strategic ventures of billionaire entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel.
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B.
Mohr Davidow Ventures
Mohr Davidow Ventures is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm known for investing in early-stage technology and life sciences startups.
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C.
Andreessen Horowitz
Andreessen Horowitz is a prominent Silicon Valley venture capital firm known for backing leading technology startups across software, fintech, crypto, and other innovation-driven sectors.
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D.
Kapor Capital
Kapor Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on investing in technology-driven startups that aim to close gaps in access, opportunity, and outcomes for underserved communities.
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E.
Founders Fund
Founders Fund is a Silicon Valley venture capital firm known for backing ambitious, transformative technology companies at early and growth stages.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
private partnership
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venture capital firm ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
KPCB
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Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers ⓘ
surface form:
Kleiner Perkins
|
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| focusesOnSector |
clean technology
ⓘ
life sciences ⓘ technology ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Brook Byers
ⓘ
Eugene Kleiner ⓘ Frank J. Caufield ⓘ Tom Perkins ⓘ |
| foundedIn | 1972 ⓘ |
| hasOffice |
Beijing
ⓘ
surface form:
Beijing, China
Menlo Park, California NERFINISHED ⓘ San Francisco ⓘ
surface form:
San Francisco, California
Shanghai ⓘ
surface form:
Shanghai, China
|
| hasPartner |
Brook Byers
ⓘ
John Doerr ⓘ Mary Meeker ⓘ Randy Komisar ⓘ Ted Schlein ⓘ |
| hasProgram |
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Kleiner Perkins Fellows Program
|
| headquartersLocation | Menlo Park, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| industry |
private equity
ⓘ
venture capital ⓘ |
| investmentStage |
early stage
ⓘ
growth stage ⓘ |
| knownFor |
backing major Silicon Valley startups
ⓘ
early-stage technology investments ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Silicon Valley ⓘ |
| notableInvestment |
Amazon
ⓘ
Genentech ⓘ Google ⓘ Netscape Communications Corporation ⓘ
surface form:
Netscape
Snap ⓘ Spotify ⓘ Sun Microsystems ⓘ Twitter, Inc. ⓘ
surface form:
Twitter
Uber ⓘ |
| partOfEcosystem | Silicon Valley startup ecosystem ⓘ |
| portfolioFocus |
consumer internet
ⓘ
digital health ⓘ enterprise software ⓘ green technology ⓘ |
| region |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
|
| regionServed | global ⓘ |
| typeOfOwnership | privately held ⓘ |
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: Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Description of subject: Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is a prominent Silicon Valley venture capital firm known for early investments in major technology companies such as Google and Amazon.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Eugene Kleiner co-founded Kleiner Perkins venture capital firm
this entity surface form:
Kleiner Perkins
this entity surface form:
Kleiner Perkins
this entity surface form:
Kleiner Perkins
this entity surface form:
Kleiner Perkins
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
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hasProgram
→
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Kleiner Perkins Fellows Program