Behind the Cloud
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"Behind the Cloud" is a business and leadership book by Salesforce founder Marc Benioff that chronicles the company’s growth and shares strategies for building a successful cloud-based enterprise.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Behind the Cloud canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T406241 — 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: Behind the Cloud Context triple: [Marc Benioff, authored, Behind the Cloud]
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A.
The Network
The Network is a mysterious, satirical new wave/punk side project band believed to feature Green Day members, including Billie Joe Armstrong, performing under disguises and pseudonyms.
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B.
Cautious Clay
Cautious Clay is an American singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist known for his genre-blending R&B, indie, and electronic music.
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C.
The Great Unknown
The Great Unknown is a section of Washington Irving’s 1824 story collection "Tales of a Traveller," comprising a group of tales centered on mystery and the supernatural.
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D.
Cornershop
Cornershop is an on-demand grocery delivery service, originally founded in Latin America, that connects users with local supermarkets and retailers through a mobile app and web platform.
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E.
Follow a Star
"Follow a Star" is a 1959 British comedy film starring Norman Wisdom as an inept but endearing aspiring entertainer whose misadventures lead him toward unexpected success.
- 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: Behind the Cloud Target entity description: "Behind the Cloud" is a business and leadership book by Salesforce founder Marc Benioff that chronicles the company’s growth and shares strategies for building a successful cloud-based enterprise.
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A.
The Network
The Network is a mysterious, satirical new wave/punk side project band believed to feature Green Day members, including Billie Joe Armstrong, performing under disguises and pseudonyms.
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B.
Cautious Clay
Cautious Clay is an American singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist known for his genre-blending R&B, indie, and electronic music.
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C.
The Great Unknown
The Great Unknown is a section of Washington Irving’s 1824 story collection "Tales of a Traveller," comprising a group of tales centered on mystery and the supernatural.
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D.
Cornershop
Cornershop is an on-demand grocery delivery service, originally founded in Latin America, that connects users with local supermarkets and retailers through a mobile app and web platform.
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E.
Follow a Star
"Follow a Star" is a 1959 British comedy film starring Norman Wisdom as an inept but endearing aspiring entertainer whose misadventures lead him toward unexpected success.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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business book ⓘ leadership book ⓘ non-fiction book ⓘ |
| author | Marc Benioff ⓘ |
| coAuthor | Carlye Adler ⓘ |
| countryOfPublication |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| describes |
growth of Salesforce.com
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strategies for building a cloud-based enterprise ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
disrupting enterprise software industry
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software-as-a-service business model ⓘ |
| genre |
business
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leadership ⓘ |
| hasPerspectiveOf | Marc Benioff ⓘ |
| intendedAudience |
business leaders
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entrepreneurs ⓘ technology executives ⓘ |
| ISBN-10 | 0470521163 ⓘ |
| ISBN-13 | 9780470521168 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Salesforce
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cloud computing ⓘ entrepreneurship ⓘ software-as-a-service ⓘ startup growth ⓘ |
| mediaType |
ebook
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print ⓘ |
| mentionsOrganization |
Salesforce
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surface form:
Salesforce.com
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| narrativeForm | case study ⓘ |
| pageCount | 304 ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 2009 ⓘ |
| publisher | Jossey-Bass ⓘ |
| setting | San Francisco ⓘ |
| structure | lessons and playbook-style tips ⓘ |
| subtitle | The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com Went from Idea to Billion-Dollar Company—and Revolutionized an Industry ⓘ |
| timePeriodCovered |
early 2000s
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late 1990s ⓘ mid 2000s ⓘ |
| topic |
cloud-based customer relationship management
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company culture ⓘ innovation ⓘ marketing strategy ⓘ philanthropy in business ⓘ sales strategy ⓘ |
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: Behind the Cloud Description of subject: "Behind the Cloud" is a business and leadership book by Salesforce founder Marc Benioff that chronicles the company’s growth and shares strategies for building a successful cloud-based enterprise.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.