Benioff
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Benioff is a surname most prominently associated with Marc Benioff, the billionaire co-founder and CEO of Salesforce.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Benioff canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T406208 — 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: Benioff Context triple: [Marc Benioff, familyName, Benioff]
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A.
Gakkel Ridge
Gakkel Ridge is a slow-spreading mid-ocean ridge located beneath the Arctic Ocean, forming the tectonic boundary between the North American and Eurasian plates.
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B.
Krakatoa
Krakatoa is a volcanic island in the Sunda Strait famous for its catastrophic 1883 eruption, one of the most powerful and destructive volcanic events in recorded history.
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C.
Bardeen
Bardeen is a surname most notably associated with John Bardeen, the American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics twice for his work on the transistor and superconductivity.
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D.
Japan Trench
The Japan Trench is a deep oceanic trench off northeastern Japan where the Pacific Plate subducts beneath the Okhotsk Plate, forming part of the Pacific Ring of Fire and generating powerful earthquakes and tsunamis.
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E.
Kay
Kay is a common diminutive or nickname for the given name Catherine.
- 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: Benioff Target entity description: Benioff is a surname most prominently associated with Marc Benioff, the billionaire co-founder and CEO of Salesforce.
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A.
Gakkel Ridge
Gakkel Ridge is a slow-spreading mid-ocean ridge located beneath the Arctic Ocean, forming the tectonic boundary between the North American and Eurasian plates.
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B.
Krakatoa
Krakatoa is a volcanic island in the Sunda Strait famous for its catastrophic 1883 eruption, one of the most powerful and destructive volcanic events in recorded history.
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C.
Bardeen
Bardeen is a surname most notably associated with John Bardeen, the American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics twice for his work on the transistor and superconductivity.
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D.
Japan Trench
The Japan Trench is a deep oceanic trench off northeastern Japan where the Pacific Plate subducts beneath the Okhotsk Plate, forming part of the Pacific Ring of Fire and generating powerful earthquakes and tsunamis.
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E.
Kay
Kay is a common diminutive or nickname for the given name Catherine.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cloud computing company
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family name ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| coFounderOf | Salesforce ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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United States of America ⓘ United States of America ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Southern California ⓘ |
| familyName |
Benioff
self-linksurface differs
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Benioff self-linksurface differs ⓘ Benioff self-linksurface differs ⓘ Benioff self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cloud computing
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customer relationship management ⓘ quantum computing ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Marc Benioff ⓘ |
| givenName | Marc ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
David Benioff
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Hugo Benioff ⓘ Marc Benioff ⓘ Paul Benioff ⓘ Victor Benioff ⓘ |
| industry | customer relationship management software ⓘ |
| isBillionaire | true ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | German ⓘ |
| notableFor |
co-creating the television series Game of Thrones
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co-founding Salesforce ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessman
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entrepreneur ⓘ novelist ⓘ philanthropist ⓘ physicist ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ seismologist ⓘ television producer ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
chairman of Salesforce
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chief executive officer of Salesforce ⓘ |
| usedBy |
David Benioff
ⓘ
Hugo Benioff ⓘ Marc Benioff ⓘ Paul Benioff ⓘ Victor Benioff ⓘ |
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: Benioff Description of subject: Benioff is a surname most prominently associated with Marc Benioff, the billionaire co-founder and CEO of Salesforce.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Marc Benioff
subject surface form:
David Benioff
subject surface form:
Hugo Benioff
subject surface form:
Paul Benioff