Max Hodak
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Max Hodak is an American entrepreneur and technologist best known as the co-founder and former president of Neuralink, a company developing brain–computer interface technology.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Max Hodak canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T146174 — 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: Max Hodak Context triple: [Neuralink, foundedBy, Max Hodak]
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A.
Kevin Yagher
Kevin Yagher is an American special effects and makeup artist and director best known for his work on horror and fantasy films and for creating iconic genre characters.
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B.
Joseph Buloff
Joseph Buloff was a Lithuanian-born American actor and director known for his work in Yiddish theater and on Broadway.
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C.
Michael Klein
Michael Klein is the father of Canadian author and activist Naomi Klein.
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D.
Charles Begole
Charles Begole was an American mountaineer best known as one of the first climbers to reach the summit of Mount Whitney in the 19th century.
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E.
Michael Filerman
Michael Filerman was an American television producer best known for developing and producing popular prime-time soap operas during the 1970s and 1980s.
- 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: Max Hodak Target entity description: Max Hodak is an American entrepreneur and technologist best known as the co-founder and former president of Neuralink, a company developing brain–computer interface technology.
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A.
Kevin Yagher
Kevin Yagher is an American special effects and makeup artist and director best known for his work on horror and fantasy films and for creating iconic genre characters.
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B.
Joseph Buloff
Joseph Buloff was a Lithuanian-born American actor and director known for his work in Yiddish theater and on Broadway.
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C.
Michael Klein
Michael Klein is the father of Canadian author and activist Naomi Klein.
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D.
Charles Begole
Charles Begole was an American mountaineer best known as one of the first climbers to reach the summit of Mount Whitney in the 19th century.
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E.
Michael Filerman
Michael Filerman was an American television producer best known for developing and producing popular prime-time soap operas during the 1970s and 1980s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
businessperson
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entrepreneur ⓘ human ⓘ technologist ⓘ |
| areaOfExpertise |
hardware startups
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neuroprosthetics ⓘ neuroscience-related engineering ⓘ |
| basedIn | San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ |
| businessSector |
biotech startups
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neurotechnology startups ⓘ |
| coFounded | Neuralink ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Duke University ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
biotechnology
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brain–computer interface ⓘ medical devices ⓘ neurotechnology ⓘ |
| founded | Science Corp ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasActivity |
building high-bandwidth brain–machine interfaces
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founding deep-tech startups ⓘ |
| hasEmployer |
Neuralink
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Science Corp ⓘ |
| hasPublicProfile |
LinkedIn
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Twitter, Inc. ⓘ
surface form:
Twitter
personal website ⓘ |
| hasRole |
company president
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startup founder ⓘ technology investor ⓘ |
| industry |
healthcare technology
ⓘ
technology ⓘ |
| knownFor | Neuralink ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| leftPosition | president of Neuralink ⓘ |
| notableFor |
early leadership at Neuralink
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public commentary on neurotechnology ethics ⓘ |
| notableWork | development of implantable brain–computer interfaces ⓘ |
| occupation |
engineer
ⓘ
entrepreneur ⓘ technology executive ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
CEO of Science Corp
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co-founder of Neuralink ⓘ president of Neuralink ⓘ |
| residence |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
|
| studied | biomedical engineering ⓘ |
| twitterHandle | @max_hodak ⓘ |
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: Max Hodak Description of subject: Max Hodak is an American entrepreneur and technologist best known as the co-founder and former president of Neuralink, a company developing brain–computer interface technology.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.