Venture Frogs
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Venture Frogs was an early-stage venture capital firm and incubator co-founded by Tony Hsieh that invested in and nurtured internet and technology startups, including the early development of Zappos.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Venture Frogs canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7088427 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Venture Frogs Context triple: [Tony Hsieh, founded, Venture Frogs]
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A.
The Frog
The Frog is a fictional criminal organization that serves as the central antagonist group in Edgar Wallace’s crime novel "The Fellowship of the Frog."
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B.
Toad Brigade
The Toad Brigade is a group of adventurous Toads, led by Captain Toad, that assists Mario on his journeys in the Super Mario Galaxy and related games.
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C.
O Sapo
O Sapo is a modernist painting by Brazilian artist Tarsila do Amaral, exemplifying her distinctive style that blends bold colors, simplified forms, and elements of Brazilian culture.
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D.
Bug! The Adventures of Forager
Bug! The Adventures of Forager is a 2017 DC Comics miniseries by writer-artist James Kochalka that follows the quirky cosmic exploits of the New God Forager in a playful, offbeat adventure.
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E.
Rootabaga Stories
Rootabaga Stories is a whimsical collection of American fairy tales for children by poet Carl Sandburg, known for its imaginative language and Midwestern folk flavor.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: Venture Frogs Target entity description: Venture Frogs was an early-stage venture capital firm and incubator co-founded by Tony Hsieh that invested in and nurtured internet and technology startups, including the early development of Zappos.
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A.
The Frog
The Frog is a fictional criminal organization that serves as the central antagonist group in Edgar Wallace’s crime novel "The Fellowship of the Frog."
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B.
Toad Brigade
The Toad Brigade is a group of adventurous Toads, led by Captain Toad, that assists Mario on his journeys in the Super Mario Galaxy and related games.
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C.
O Sapo
O Sapo is a modernist painting by Brazilian artist Tarsila do Amaral, exemplifying her distinctive style that blends bold colors, simplified forms, and elements of Brazilian culture.
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D.
Bug! The Adventures of Forager
Bug! The Adventures of Forager is a 2017 DC Comics miniseries by writer-artist James Kochalka that follows the quirky cosmic exploits of the New God Forager in a playful, offbeat adventure.
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E.
Rootabaga Stories
Rootabaga Stories is a whimsical collection of American fairy tales for children by poet Carl Sandburg, known for its imaginative language and Midwestern folk flavor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
business incubator
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venture capital firm ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Alfred Lin
NERFINISHED
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Tony Hsieh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| businessModel | equity investment ⓘ |
| coFoundedBy |
Alfred Lin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tony Hsieh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| focus |
early-stage companies
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internet companies ⓘ technology companies ⓘ |
| industry |
internet startups
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technology startups ⓘ venture capital ⓘ |
| investedIn | Zappos NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
early investment in Zappos
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supporting internet startups ⓘ |
| locationCountry |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| notablePortfolioCompany | Zappos NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operationalStatus | defunct ⓘ |
| provided |
incubation services
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mentorship ⓘ office space ⓘ seed funding ⓘ |
| roleInZappos |
early investor
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incubator ⓘ |
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: Venture Frogs Description of subject: Venture Frogs was an early-stage venture capital firm and incubator co-founded by Tony Hsieh that invested in and nurtured internet and technology startups, including the early development of Zappos.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.