Elevation Partners
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Elevation Partners is a private equity firm focused on media, entertainment, and technology investments, co-founded by prominent investor Roger McNamee.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Elevation Partners canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8005183 — 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: Elevation Partners Context triple: [Roger McNamee, coFounded, Elevation Partners]
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A.
Terra Firma Capital Partners
Terra Firma Capital Partners is a UK-based private equity firm known for high-profile leveraged buyouts across sectors including music, real estate, and infrastructure.
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B.
RedBird Capital Partners
RedBird Capital Partners is a private investment firm known for its significant stakes in major sports, media, and entertainment properties.
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C.
Sycamore Partners
Sycamore Partners is a private equity firm known for acquiring and restructuring retail and consumer brands in the United States.
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D.
NextEquity Partners
NextEquity Partners is a venture capital and private equity firm known for investing in growth-stage technology and innovation-driven companies.
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E.
Seidler Equity Partners
Seidler Equity Partners is a private equity firm that invests in and partners with middle-market companies across various industries.
- 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: Elevation Partners Target entity description: Elevation Partners is a private equity firm focused on media, entertainment, and technology investments, co-founded by prominent investor Roger McNamee.
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A.
Terra Firma Capital Partners
Terra Firma Capital Partners is a UK-based private equity firm known for high-profile leveraged buyouts across sectors including music, real estate, and infrastructure.
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B.
RedBird Capital Partners
RedBird Capital Partners is a private investment firm known for its significant stakes in major sports, media, and entertainment properties.
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C.
Sycamore Partners
Sycamore Partners is a private equity firm known for acquiring and restructuring retail and consumer brands in the United States.
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D.
NextEquity Partners
NextEquity Partners is a venture capital and private equity firm known for investing in growth-stage technology and innovation-driven companies.
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E.
Seidler Equity Partners
Seidler Equity Partners is a private equity firm that invests in and partners with middle-market companies across various industries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | private equity firm ⓘ |
| associatedWith | U2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coFoundedBy |
Bono
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bret Pearlman NERFINISHED ⓘ Fred Anderson NERFINISHED ⓘ John Riccitiello NERFINISHED ⓘ Marc Bodnick NERFINISHED ⓘ Roger McNamee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| focusesOn |
entertainment investments
ⓘ
media investments ⓘ technology investments ⓘ |
| foundedIn | 2004 ⓘ |
| hasReputationFor | celebrity-backed private equity ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | San Francisco NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| industry | private equity ⓘ |
| investmentStrategy |
buyout
ⓘ
growth equity ⓘ |
| keyPerson |
Bono
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bret Pearlman NERFINISHED ⓘ Fred Anderson NERFINISHED ⓘ John Riccitiello NERFINISHED ⓘ Marc Bodnick NERFINISHED ⓘ Roger McNamee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
early investment in Facebook
ⓘ
media and entertainment focus ⓘ |
| namedAfter | U2 song "Elevation" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableInvestment |
BioWare Pandemic Studios
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Facebook NERFINISHED ⓘ Forbes Media NERFINISHED ⓘ MarketShare NERFINISHED ⓘ Move, Inc. NERFINISHED ⓘ Palm, Inc. NERFINISHED ⓘ SDI Media NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatesAs | limited partnership ⓘ |
| regionServed |
North America
ⓘ
global ⓘ |
| targetSector |
consumer internet
ⓘ
enterprise technology ⓘ interactive entertainment ⓘ traditional media ⓘ |
| typicalInvestmentStage |
late-stage growth
ⓘ
mature companies ⓘ |
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: Elevation Partners Description of subject: Elevation Partners is a private equity firm focused on media, entertainment, and technology investments, co-founded by prominent investor Roger McNamee.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.