Steven
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Steven is the given name of Steven Shih Chen, the Taiwanese-American internet entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of YouTube.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Steven canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5155984 — 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: Steven Context triple: [Steven Shih Chen, givenName, Steven]
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A.
Steven
Steven is the birth name of Steve Jobs, the influential co-founder and longtime leader of Apple Inc.
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B.
Steven
Steven is the given first name of American film producer and New York Giants co-owner Steve Tisch.
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C.
Steven
Steven is the given name of renowned American filmmaker Steven Spielberg.
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D.
Steven
Steven is the given first name of Steve Albini, the influential American musician, recording engineer, and producer known for his work with numerous alternative rock bands.
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E.
Steven
Steven is the given first name of former Major League Baseball first baseman and ten-time All-Star Steve Garvey.
- 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: Steven Target entity description: Steven is the given name of Steven Shih Chen, the Taiwanese-American internet entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of YouTube.
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A.
Steven
Steven is the birth name of Steve Jobs, the influential co-founder and longtime leader of Apple Inc.
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B.
Steven
Steven is the given first name of Steve Albini, the influential American musician, recording engineer, and producer known for his work with numerous alternative rock bands.
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C.
Steven
Steven is the given first name of American film producer and New York Giants co-owner Steve Tisch.
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D.
Steven
Steven is the given name of renowned American filmmaker Steven Spielberg.
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E.
Steven
Steven is a masculine given name of English origin, often used as a variant of Stephen.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| alternateName | Steve Chen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| attendedHighSchoolIn | Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Asian Excellence Award for Innovation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
|
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| coFounded |
AVOS Systems
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
YouTube NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coFounderWith |
Chad Hurley
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jawed Karim NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Taiwan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1978-08-18 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign ⓘ |
| employer |
Google
ⓘ
PayPal NERFINISHED ⓘ YouTube NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Taiwanese ⓘ |
| familyName | Chen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy | computer science ⓘ |
| genre | technology entrepreneurship ⓘ |
| givenName | Steven NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild | child (name not public) ⓘ |
| immigratedTo | United States of America ⓘ |
| industry |
online video
ⓘ
technology ⓘ |
| knownFor | co-founding YouTube ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
Mandarin Chinese ⓘ |
| leftUniversity | University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign before graduation ⓘ |
| listedIn | Time 100 Most Influential People (2006) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | PayPal Mafia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movedTo | Illinois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Taiwanese-American ⓘ |
| nativeName | 陳士駿 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent | sale of YouTube to Google in 2006 ⓘ |
| notableProject | development of YouTube video-sharing platform ⓘ |
| notableWork | YouTube NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
internet entrepreneur
ⓘ
software engineer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Taipei NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Chief Technology Officer of YouTube ⓘ |
| religion | Buddhism (reported) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | San Francisco Bay Area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse |
Jamie Chen
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Park Ji-hyun NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startupInvolvement | AVOS Systems NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startupRole | technical co-founder ⓘ |
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: Steven Description of subject: Steven is the given name of Steven Shih Chen, the Taiwanese-American internet entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of YouTube.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.