Silver Lake Partners

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investment firm private equity firm

Silver Lake Partners is a leading American private equity firm specializing in technology and technology-enabled investments, known for high-profile stakes in major global companies.

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Label	Occurrences
Silver Lake Partners canonical	11
Silver Lake Partners (large-cap buyout strategy)	1
Silver Lake Sumeru Fund	1

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This entity first appeared as the object of triple T267335 — 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: Silver Lake Partners
Context triple: [City Football Group, majorShareholder, Silver Lake Partners]

A. The Carlyle Group
The Carlyle Group is a major global private equity and investment firm known for managing large alternative asset portfolios and employing prominent political and financial figures.
B. RedBird Capital Partners
RedBird Capital Partners is a private investment firm known for its significant stakes in major sports, media, and entertainment properties.
C. Cohen Private Ventures
Cohen Private Ventures is a family office investment firm founded by billionaire hedge fund manager Steve Cohen, managing his personal and family assets across a range of private and public investments.
D. Madrona Venture Group
Madrona Venture Group is a Seattle-based venture capital firm known for investing in early-stage technology companies, particularly in the Pacific Northwest.
E. Blackstone Inc.
Blackstone Inc. is a leading global alternative asset management firm specializing in private equity, real estate, credit, and hedge fund investment strategies.
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: Silver Lake Partners
Target entity description: Silver Lake Partners is a leading American private equity firm specializing in technology and technology-enabled investments, known for high-profile stakes in major global companies.

A. The Carlyle Group
The Carlyle Group is a major global private equity and investment firm known for managing large alternative asset portfolios and employing prominent political and financial figures.
B. RedBird Capital Partners
RedBird Capital Partners is a private investment firm known for its significant stakes in major sports, media, and entertainment properties.
C. Cohen Private Ventures
Cohen Private Ventures is a family office investment firm founded by billionaire hedge fund manager Steve Cohen, managing his personal and family assets across a range of private and public investments.
D. Madrona Venture Group
Madrona Venture Group is a Seattle-based venture capital firm known for investing in early-stage technology companies, particularly in the Pacific Northwest.
E. Blackstone Inc.
Blackstone Inc. is a leading global alternative asset management firm specializing in private equity, real estate, credit, and hedge fund investment strategies.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	investment firm ⓘ private equity firm ⓘ
areaServed	global ⓘ
assetClass	private equity ⓘ
clientType	endowments ⓘ institutional investors ⓘ pension funds ⓘ sovereign wealth funds ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
focus	technology investments ⓘ technology-enabled investments ⓘ
foundedBy	David Roux ⓘ Glenn Hutchins ⓘ Jim Davidson ⓘ Roger McNamee ⓘ
hasDivision	Silver Lake Kraftwerk ⓘ Silver Lake Partners self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Silver Lake Partners (large-cap buyout strategy) Silver Lake Sumeru ⓘ Silver Lake Waterman ⓘ
headquartersLocation	Menlo Park, California ⓘ
industry	financial services ⓘ private equity ⓘ
investmentStyle	growth equity ⓘ large-scale investments ⓘ leveraged buyouts ⓘ
knownFor	high-profile technology deals ⓘ large minority and control stakes in global tech companies ⓘ
notableInvestment	Airbnb ⓘ Alibaba Group ⓘ Avaya ⓘ Broadcom ⓘ Dell ⓘ surface form: Dell Technologies GoDaddy ⓘ Motorola ⓘ surface form: Motorola Solutions Sabre ⓘ Sabre Holdings ⓘ Seagate Technology ⓘ Skype ⓘ SolarWinds ⓘ Twitter, Inc. ⓘ surface form: Twitter WME-IMG ⓘ
officeLocation	Bengaluru ⓘ surface form: Bangalore Hong Kong, China ⓘ surface form: Hong Kong London, England ⓘ surface form: London New York City ⓘ San Francisco ⓘ Singapore ⓘ Tokyo ⓘ
specialization	large-scale technology buyouts ⓘ late-stage growth investments in technology ⓘ

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

City Football Group → majorShareholder → Silver Lake Partners ⓘ

Silver Lake Partners → hasDivision → Silver Lake Partners self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Silver Lake Partners (large-cap buyout strategy)

Glenn Hutchins → coFounded → Silver Lake Partners ⓘ

David Roux → notableWork → Silver Lake Partners ⓘ

David Roux → employer → Silver Lake Partners ⓘ

David Roux → memberOf → Silver Lake Partners ⓘ

Silver Lake Sumeru → parentOrganization → Silver Lake Partners ⓘ

Silver Lake Sumeru → hasAlternativeName → Silver Lake Partners ⓘ

this entity surface form: Silver Lake Sumeru Fund

Silver Lake Waterman → parentOrganization → Silver Lake Partners ⓘ

Silver Lake Waterman → relatedTo → Silver Lake Partners ⓘ

Roger McNamee → coFounded → Silver Lake Partners ⓘ

Jim Davidson → coFounderOf → Silver Lake Partners ⓘ

Jim Davidson → employer → Silver Lake Partners ⓘ

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