Travis Kalanick

E30977

business executive entrepreneur human

Travis Kalanick is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and former CEO of the ride-hailing company Uber.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Travis Kalanick canonical	10
Kalanick	1
Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick	1

Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	business executive ⓘ entrepreneur ⓘ human ⓘ
businessSector	startups ⓘ venture investments ⓘ
coFounded	Red Swoosh ⓘ Uber ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America ⓘ
dateOfBirth	1976-08-06 ⓘ
educatedAt	University of California, Los Angeles ⓘ
employer	Red Swoosh ⓘ Scour ⓘ Uber ⓘ
endTimeOfPosition	2017 (CEO of Uber) ⓘ 2017-06-21 ⓘ
ethnicGroup	Jewish American ⓘ
familyName	Travis Kalanick self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Kalanick
fieldOfStudy	business economics ⓘ computer engineering ⓘ
founded	10100 (investment fund) ⓘ
givenName	Travis Beacham ⓘ surface form: Travis
hasInvestment	10100 (investment fund) ⓘ
hasRole	co-founder of Uber ⓘ former CEO of Uber ⓘ
industry	ride-hailing ⓘ technology ⓘ transportation ⓘ
knownFor	Uber ⓘ
languageSpoken	English ⓘ
memberOf	founders of Uber ⓘ
name	Travis Kalanick self-link ⓘ
nationality	American ⓘ
notableAchievement	scaled Uber into a global ride-hailing platform ⓘ
notableWork	co-founding Uber ⓘ
occupation	businessperson ⓘ chief executive officer ⓘ entrepreneur ⓘ
placeOfBirth	California, United States ⓘ surface form: California Los Angeles ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
positionHeld	CEO of Uber ⓘ member of the board of directors of Uber ⓘ
replacedBy	Dara Khosrowshahi ⓘ
residence	Los Angeles ⓘ San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ
sexOrGender	male ⓘ

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: Travis Kalanick
Description of subject: Travis Kalanick is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and former CEO of the ride-hailing company Uber.

Referenced by (12)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Uber → foundedBy → Travis Kalanick ⓘ

Travis Kalanick → name → Travis Kalanick self-link ⓘ

Travis Kalanick → familyName → Travis Kalanick self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Kalanick

Red Swoosh → foundedBy → Travis Kalanick ⓘ

Red Swoosh → keyPerson → Travis Kalanick ⓘ

10100 (investment fund) → foundedBy → Travis Kalanick ⓘ

subject surface form: 10100

10100 (investment fund) → hasFounder → Travis Kalanick ⓘ

subject surface form: 10100

10100 (investment fund) → foundedBy → Travis Kalanick ⓘ

subject surface form: 10100

this entity surface form: Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick

10100 (investment fund) → hasKeyPerson → Travis Kalanick ⓘ

subject surface form: 10100

Scour → foundedBy → Travis Kalanick ⓘ

Scour → coFoundedBy → Travis Kalanick ⓘ

Scour → associatedWith → Travis Kalanick ⓘ