Eric Yuan
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Eric Yuan is a Chinese-American entrepreneur and software engineer best known as the founder and CEO of Zoom Video Communications, a leading video-conferencing platform.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Eric Yuan canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T359487 — 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: Eric Yuan Context triple: [Zoom Video Communications, foundedBy, Eric Yuan]
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A.
Steve Chen
Steve Chen is a Taiwanese-American internet entrepreneur best known as one of the co-founders of the video-sharing platform YouTube.
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B.
Sam Altman
Sam Altman is an American entrepreneur and investor best known as the former president of Y Combinator and a leading figure in the development and governance of artificial intelligence.
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C.
Greg Brockman
Greg Brockman is a technology entrepreneur and engineer best known as a co-founder and former president of OpenAI, where he helped lead the development of advanced artificial intelligence systems.
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D.
Sundar Pichai
Sundar Pichai is an Indian-American business executive and technologist best known for leading Google and its parent company Alphabet Inc. as chief executive officer.
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E.
Nathan Blecharczyk
Nathan Blecharczyk is an American billionaire entrepreneur and software engineer best known as a co-founder and longtime technology leader of the home-sharing company Airbnb.
- 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: Eric Yuan Target entity description: Eric Yuan is a Chinese-American entrepreneur and software engineer best known as the founder and CEO of Zoom Video Communications, a leading video-conferencing platform.
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A.
Steve Chen
Steve Chen is a Taiwanese-American internet entrepreneur best known as one of the co-founders of the video-sharing platform YouTube.
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B.
Sam Altman
Sam Altman is an American entrepreneur and investor best known as the former president of Y Combinator and a leading figure in the development and governance of artificial intelligence.
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C.
Greg Brockman
Greg Brockman is a technology entrepreneur and engineer best known as a co-founder and former president of OpenAI, where he helped lead the development of advanced artificial intelligence systems.
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D.
Sundar Pichai
Sundar Pichai is an Indian-American business executive and technologist best known for leading Google and its parent company Alphabet Inc. as chief executive officer.
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E.
Nathan Blecharczyk
Nathan Blecharczyk is an American billionaire entrepreneur and software engineer best known as a co-founder and longtime technology leader of the home-sharing company Airbnb.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
business executive
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entrepreneur ⓘ human ⓘ software engineer ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Time 100 Most Influential People
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surface form:
Time 100 list honoree
|
| basedIn |
San Jose, California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
San Jose, California
|
| birthName | Yuan Zheng ⓘ |
| boardMemberOf | Zoom Video Communications ⓘ |
| businessModel | subscription software ⓘ |
| businessSector | software-as-a-service ⓘ |
| citizenship |
China
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| education |
China University of Mining and Technology
ⓘ
Shandong University of Science and Technology ⓘ |
| employer | Zoom Video Communications ⓘ |
| entrepreneurialFocus | enterprise communications software ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Han Chinese ⓘ |
| familyName | Yuan ⓘ |
| field | computer software ⓘ |
| founded | Zoom Video Communications ⓘ |
| foundedInIndustry | cloud-based video communications ⓘ |
| givenName | Eric ⓘ |
| hasNotableImpactOn |
online education
ⓘ
remote work practices ⓘ virtual events ⓘ |
| immigrationStatus | immigrant to the United States from China ⓘ |
| industry |
technology
ⓘ
video conferencing ⓘ |
| knownFor |
CEO of Zoom Video Communications
ⓘ
founder of Zoom Video Communications ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
Mandarin Chinese ⓘ |
| movedTo |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| name | Eric Yuan self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | Chinese-American ⓘ |
| notableEvent | led Zoom during global COVID-19 pandemic usage surge ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Zoom Video Communications
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surface form:
Zoom video-conferencing platform
|
| occupation |
businessperson
ⓘ
entrepreneur ⓘ software engineer ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
chief executive officer of Zoom Video Communications
ⓘ
founder of Zoom Video Communications ⓘ vice president of engineering at Cisco WebEx ⓘ |
| previousEmployer |
Cisco Systems
ⓘ
Webex ⓘ
surface form:
WebEx
|
| residence |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
|
| roleIn |
engineering leadership at Zoom
ⓘ
product design of Zoom ⓘ |
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: Eric Yuan Description of subject: Eric Yuan is a Chinese-American entrepreneur and software engineer best known as the founder and CEO of Zoom Video Communications, a leading video-conferencing platform.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Zoom Video Communications, Inc.