Uri Levine
E374604
GPS navigation software
Israeli person
agricultural technology company
automotive diagnostics app
entrepreneur
financial technology company
human
public transit app
technology company
travel technology company
Uri Levine is an Israeli entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of the GPS navigation app Waze, which was acquired by Google.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Uri Levine canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3419334 — 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: Uri Levine Context triple: [Waze, foundedBy, Uri Levine]
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A.
Mark Levine
Mark Levine is an American politician and public servant who serves as the borough president of Manhattan in New York City.
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B.
Jon Rubinstein
Jon Rubinstein is an American computer engineer and executive best known for his key role in developing Apple's iPod and later leading Palm as CEO.
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C.
Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz
Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz is an American comedian, writer, producer, and former host of "The Daily Show," better known professionally as Jon Stewart.
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D.
Avi Lerner
Avi Lerner is an Israeli-American film producer and founder of Millennium Films, known for financing and producing numerous action movies and franchises.
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E.
Sam Levy
Sam Levy is an American cinematographer best known for his frequent collaborations with director Noah Baumbach and his work on acclaimed independent films.
- 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: Uri Levine Target entity description: Uri Levine is an Israeli entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of the GPS navigation app Waze, which was acquired by Google.
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A.
Mark Levine
Mark Levine is an American politician and public servant who serves as the borough president of Manhattan in New York City.
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B.
Jon Rubinstein
Jon Rubinstein is an American computer engineer and executive best known for his key role in developing Apple's iPod and later leading Palm as CEO.
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C.
Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz
Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz is an American comedian, writer, producer, and former host of "The Daily Show," better known professionally as Jon Stewart.
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D.
Avi Lerner
Avi Lerner is an Israeli-American film producer and founder of Millennium Films, known for financing and producing numerous action movies and franchises.
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E.
Sam Levy
Sam Levy is an American cinematographer best known for his frequent collaborations with director Noah Baumbach and his work on acclaimed independent films.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
GPS navigation software
ⓘ
Israeli person ⓘ agricultural technology company ⓘ automotive diagnostics app ⓘ entrepreneur ⓘ financial technology company ⓘ financial technology company ⓘ human ⓘ public transit app ⓘ technology company ⓘ travel technology company ⓘ |
| acquired | Waze ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | Google ⓘ |
| authorOf | Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution ⓘ |
| boardMemberOf |
Engie
ⓘ
FairFly ⓘ Moovit ⓘ Pontera ⓘ SeeTree ⓘ |
| coFounded | Waze ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Israel ⓘ |
| developer |
Waze
ⓘ
surface form:
Waze Mobile
|
| educatedAt | Tel Aviv University ⓘ |
| employer | Waze ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Jews
ⓘ
surface form:
Jewish people
|
| fieldOfWork |
mobile applications
ⓘ
navigation software ⓘ technology entrepreneurship ⓘ |
| founded |
Engie
ⓘ
FairFly ⓘ FeeX ⓘ Moovit ⓘ Pontera ⓘ SeeTree ⓘ |
| genre |
business literature
ⓘ
turn-by-turn navigation software ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDegree | Economics degree ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Waze
ⓘ
surface form:
Waze navigation app
Waze ⓘ
surface form:
co-founding Waze
|
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
ⓘ
Hebrew ⓘ |
| name | Uri Levine self-link ⓘ |
| notableEvent | Waze acquisition by Google ⓘ |
| notableWork | Waze ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessperson
ⓘ
entrepreneur ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
Android
ⓘ
iOS ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Israel ⓘ |
| positionHeld | president of Waze ⓘ |
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: Uri Levine Description of subject: Uri Levine is an Israeli entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of the GPS navigation app Waze, which was acquired by Google.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.