Tom Perkins
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Tom Perkins was an influential American venture capitalist and co-founder of the prominent Silicon Valley firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
All labels observed (1)
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| Tom Perkins canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9827389 — 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: Tom Perkins Context triple: [Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, foundedBy, Tom Perkins]
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A.
Ronald Perelman
Ronald Perelman is an American billionaire investor and corporate raider best known for building a vast business empire through leveraged buyouts and his long-time control of Revlon.
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B.
Kenneth G. Langone
Kenneth G. Langone is an American billionaire businessman, investor, and philanthropist best known as a co-founder of Home Depot and a major benefactor of New York University.
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C.
Stephen M. Ross
Stephen M. Ross is an American real estate billionaire and philanthropist best known as the principal owner of the NFL’s Miami Dolphins and the developer behind New York’s Hudson Yards.
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D.
David M. Rubenstein
David M. Rubenstein is an American billionaire investor, philanthropist, and co-founder of the global private equity firm The Carlyle Group.
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E.
Preston Robert Tisch
Preston Robert Tisch was an American businessman and philanthropist best known as co-owner of the New York Giants and former Postmaster General of the United States.
- 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: Tom Perkins Target entity description: Tom Perkins was an influential American venture capitalist and co-founder of the prominent Silicon Valley firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
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A.
Ronald Perelman
Ronald Perelman is an American billionaire investor and corporate raider best known for building a vast business empire through leveraged buyouts and his long-time control of Revlon.
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B.
Kenneth G. Langone
Kenneth G. Langone is an American billionaire businessman, investor, and philanthropist best known as a co-founder of Home Depot and a major benefactor of New York University.
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C.
Stephen M. Ross
Stephen M. Ross is an American real estate billionaire and philanthropist best known as the principal owner of the NFL’s Miami Dolphins and the developer behind New York’s Hudson Yards.
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D.
David M. Rubenstein
David M. Rubenstein is an American billionaire investor, philanthropist, and co-founder of the global private equity firm The Carlyle Group.
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E.
Preston Robert Tisch
Preston Robert Tisch was an American businessman and philanthropist best known as co-owner of the New York Giants and former Postmaster General of the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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venture capitalist ⓘ |
| boardMemberOf |
Applied Materials
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Compaq NERFINISHED ⓘ Genentech NERFINISHED ⓘ Hewlett-Packard NERFINISHED ⓘ Hewlett-Packard Company board of directors NERFINISHED ⓘ News Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ Philips Electronics NERFINISHED ⓘ Tandem Computers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coFounded |
Kleiner Perkins
NERFINISHED
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Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard Business School
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ |
| employer | Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Perkins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
technology investing
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venture capital ⓘ |
| fullName | Thomas James Perkins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Thomas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| industry |
biotechnology
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technology ⓘ |
| memberOf | Kleiner Perkins partnership ⓘ |
| notableFor |
co-founding Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
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early investments in biotechnology companies ⓘ role in corporate governance controversies at Hewlett-Packard ⓘ |
| notableInvestment |
AOL
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Amazon NERFINISHED ⓘ Compaq NERFINISHED ⓘ Genentech NERFINISHED ⓘ Google NERFINISHED ⓘ Loudcloud NERFINISHED ⓘ Netscape NERFINISHED ⓘ Sun Microsystems NERFINISHED ⓘ Tandem Computers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | Silicon Valley technology investments ⓘ |
| occupation |
business executive
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entrepreneur ⓘ venture capitalist ⓘ |
| positionHeld | partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers ⓘ |
| residence |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
San Francisco Bay Area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
Silicon Valley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Tom Perkins Description of subject: Tom Perkins was an influential American venture capitalist and co-founder of the prominent Silicon Valley firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.