John Doerr
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John Doerr is a prominent American venture capitalist and early investor in major technology companies such as Google and Amazon.
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| John Doerr canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9827410 — 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)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Doerr Context triple: [Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, hasPartner, John Doerr]
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A.
Vinod Khosla
Vinod Khosla is an Indian-American engineer, billionaire venture capitalist, and co-founder of Sun Microsystems known for his influential role in Silicon Valley and early-stage technology investing.
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B.
Steve Levine
Steve Levine is a British record producer best known for his work in the 1980s with artists such as Culture Club and The Beach Boys.
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C.
Peter Thiel
Peter Thiel is a German-American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and political activist best known as a co-founder of PayPal and an early investor in Facebook.
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D.
Michael Moritz
Michael Moritz is a Welsh-born venture capitalist, former journalist, and longtime Sequoia Capital partner known for early investments in companies like Google and for his major philanthropic contributions to education and the arts.
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E.
Ben Horowitz
Ben Horowitz is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and co-founder of the influential Silicon Valley firm Andreessen Horowitz, known for his leadership in tech investing and his writings on startup management.
- 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: John Doerr Target entity description: John Doerr is a prominent American venture capitalist and early investor in major technology companies such as Google and Amazon.
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A.
Vinod Khosla
Vinod Khosla is an Indian-American engineer, billionaire venture capitalist, and co-founder of Sun Microsystems known for his influential role in Silicon Valley and early-stage technology investing.
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B.
Steve Levine
Steve Levine is a British record producer best known for his work in the 1980s with artists such as Culture Club and The Beach Boys.
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C.
Peter Thiel
Peter Thiel is a German-American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and political activist best known as a co-founder of PayPal and an early investor in Facebook.
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D.
Michael Moritz
Michael Moritz is a Welsh-born venture capitalist, former journalist, and longtime Sequoia Capital partner known for early investments in companies like Google and for his major philanthropic contributions to education and the arts.
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E.
Ben Horowitz
Ben Horowitz is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and co-founder of the influential Silicon Valley firm Andreessen Horowitz, known for his leadership in tech investing and his writings on startup management.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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venture capitalist ⓘ |
| awardReceived | U.S. National Academy of Engineering membership NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1951-06-29 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | St. Louis, Missouri, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| boardMemberOf |
Alphabet Inc.
NERFINISHED
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Amazon.com, Inc. NERFINISHED ⓘ Google NERFINISHED ⓘ Intuit NERFINISHED ⓘ Sun Microsystems NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| degree |
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering
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MBA ⓘ Master of Science in Electrical Engineering ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard Business School
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Rice University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Kleiner Perkins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Doerr NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
clean energy investing
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technology investing ⓘ venture capital ⓘ |
| givenName | L. John NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
advocacy of OKRs management framework
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early investment in Amazon ⓘ early investment in Google ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Kleiner Perkins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | John Doerr NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | philanthropy in climate and education ⓘ |
| notableIdea | Objectives and Key Results NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableInvestment |
Amazon
NERFINISHED
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Beyond Meat NERFINISHED ⓘ Bloom Energy NERFINISHED ⓘ Compaq NERFINISHED ⓘ DoorDash NERFINISHED ⓘ Google NERFINISHED ⓘ Intuit NERFINISHED ⓘ Netscape NERFINISHED ⓘ Slack NERFINISHED ⓘ Sun Microsystems NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Measure What Matters
NERFINISHED
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Speed & Scale NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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entrepreneur ⓘ venture capitalist ⓘ |
| positionHeld | chairman of Kleiner Perkins ⓘ |
| previouslyWorkedFor | Intel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | California, United States ⓘ |
| spouse | Ann Doerr 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: John Doerr Description of subject: John Doerr is a prominent American venture capitalist and early investor in major technology companies such as Google and Amazon.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.