David Sacks
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business executive
company founder
human
investor
podcast host
technology entrepreneur
venture capitalist
David Sacks is a technology entrepreneur and investor best known as the founding COO of PayPal, founder of Geni.com and Yammer, and a prominent figure in Silicon Valley venture capital.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Sacks canonical | 6 |
| David O. Sacks | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2555193 — 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: David Sacks Context triple: [Yammer, foundedBy, David Sacks]
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A.
Michael Markowitz
Michael Markowitz is an American comedy writer best known for co-writing the hit film "Horrible Bosses."
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B.
Neil Siegel
Neil Siegel is a prominent American legal scholar known for his work in constitutional law and theory, including the study of judicial behavior and the separation of powers.
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C.
Andrew Weisblum
Andrew Weisblum is an American film editor known for his work on major feature films, including collaborations with directors like Darren Aronofsky and Wes Anderson.
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D.
Jonathan Tisch
Jonathan Tisch is an American businessman and philanthropist best known as the chairman and CEO of Loews Hotels and co-owner of the New York Giants.
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E.
Art Podell
Art Podell is an American folk musician and songwriter best known as an early member of the popular 1960s folk group The New Christy Minstrels.
- 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: David Sacks Target entity description: David Sacks is a technology entrepreneur and investor best known as the founding COO of PayPal, founder of Geni.com and Yammer, and a prominent figure in Silicon Valley venture capital.
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A.
Michael Markowitz
Michael Markowitz is an American comedy writer best known for co-writing the hit film "Horrible Bosses."
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B.
Neil Siegel
Neil Siegel is a prominent American legal scholar known for his work in constitutional law and theory, including the study of judicial behavior and the separation of powers.
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C.
Andrew Weisblum
Andrew Weisblum is an American film editor known for his work on major feature films, including collaborations with directors like Darren Aronofsky and Wes Anderson.
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D.
Jonathan Tisch
Jonathan Tisch is an American businessman and philanthropist best known as the chairman and CEO of Loews Hotels and co-owner of the New York Giants.
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E.
Art Podell
Art Podell is an American folk musician and songwriter best known as an early member of the popular 1960s folk group The New Christy Minstrels.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
business executive
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company founder ⓘ human ⓘ investor ⓘ podcast host ⓘ technology entrepreneur ⓘ venture capitalist ⓘ |
| basedIn |
San Francisco Bay Area
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Silicon Valley ⓘ |
| boardMemberOf | various technology startups ⓘ |
| coHostOf | All-In Podcast ⓘ |
| degree |
Juris Doctor from University of Chicago Law School
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bachelor's degree from Stanford University ⓘ |
| education |
Stanford University
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University of Chicago Law School ⓘ |
| employer | PayPal ⓘ |
| familyName | Sacks ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
enterprise software
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internet industry ⓘ social networking ⓘ |
| founded |
Craft Ventures
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Geni.com ⓘ Geni.com, a genealogy and social networking site ⓘ Yammer ⓘ Yammer ⓘ
surface form:
Yammer, an enterprise social network
|
| givenName | David ⓘ |
| industry |
software-as-a-service
ⓘ
technology ⓘ |
| investmentFocus |
SaaS companies
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early-stage technology companies ⓘ |
| knownFor | All-In Podcast co-hosting ⓘ |
| memberOf | PayPal Mafia ⓘ |
| name | David Sacks self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Silicon Valley venture capital investing
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being founding COO of PayPal ⓘ founding Geni.com ⓘ founding Yammer ⓘ |
| occupation |
entrepreneur
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investor ⓘ podcaster ⓘ technology executive ⓘ venture capitalist ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Chief Operating Officer of PayPal ⓘ |
| roleInCompany |
CEO of Geni.com
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CEO of Yammer ⓘ general partner at Craft Ventures ⓘ |
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: David Sacks Description of subject: David Sacks is a technology entrepreneur and investor best known as the founding COO of PayPal, founder of Geni.com and Yammer, and a prominent figure in Silicon Valley venture capital.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
David O. Sacks