Joe Lacob
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Joe Lacob is an American venture capitalist and majority owner of the NBA’s Golden State Warriors, known for overseeing the franchise’s rise into a modern basketball dynasty.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Joe Lacob canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11308530 — 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: Joe Lacob Context triple: [Golden State Warriors, ownerGroup, Joe Lacob]
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A.
Clif Smart
Clif Smart is an American academic administrator and attorney best known for serving as the president of Missouri State University.
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B.
Mike Riley
Mike Riley is an American football coach best known for his long tenure leading the Oregon State Beavers and multiple stints as a head coach in both college football and the NFL.
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C.
Neil McLellan
Neil McLellan is a British record producer and audio engineer best known for his work with electronic and dance acts such as The Prodigy.
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D.
Dave Dombrowski
Dave Dombrowski is a veteran Major League Baseball executive known for building multiple pennant- and World Series–contending teams with several franchises.
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E.
Brad Treliving
Brad Treliving is a Canadian ice hockey executive known for serving as an NHL general manager, including leading the front office of the Toronto Maple Leafs.
- 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: Joe Lacob Target entity description: Joe Lacob is an American venture capitalist and majority owner of the NBA’s Golden State Warriors, known for overseeing the franchise’s rise into a modern basketball dynasty.
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A.
Clif Smart
Clif Smart is an American academic administrator and attorney best known for serving as the president of Missouri State University.
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B.
Mike Riley
Mike Riley is an American football coach best known for his long tenure leading the Oregon State Beavers and multiple stints as a head coach in both college football and the NFL.
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C.
Neil McLellan
Neil McLellan is a British record producer and audio engineer best known for his work with electronic and dance acts such as The Prodigy.
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D.
Dave Dombrowski
Dave Dombrowski is a veteran Major League Baseball executive known for building multiple pennant- and World Series–contending teams with several franchises.
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E.
Brad Treliving
Brad Treliving is a Canadian ice hockey executive known for serving as an NHL general manager, including leading the front office of the Toronto Maple Leafs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
businessperson
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human ⓘ sports team owner ⓘ venture capitalist ⓘ |
| acquiredTeam | Golden State Warriors NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| acquisitionDate | 2010-07 ⓘ |
| acquisitionPrice | 450000000 USD ⓘ |
| boardMembership | Golden State Warriors ownership group NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| businessPartner | Peter Guber NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1956-01-10 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Stanford University
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UCLA Anderson School of Management NERFINISHED ⓘ University of California, Irvine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Kleiner Perkins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Lacob NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
sports management
ⓘ
venture capital ⓘ |
| fullName | Joseph Steven Lacob NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Joseph NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| implementedStrategy |
data-driven decision making in basketball operations
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emphasis on three-point shooting and pace-and-space style ⓘ investment in sports analytics ⓘ |
| knownFor |
majority ownership of the Golden State Warriors
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overseeing Golden State Warriors’ rise into an NBA dynasty ⓘ |
| leagueOfOwnedTeam | National Basketball Association NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableInvestmentArea |
healthcare companies
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technology companies ⓘ |
| occupation |
entrepreneur
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sports executive ⓘ venture capitalist ⓘ |
| oversawHiringOf |
Bob Myers
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Steve Kerr NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| oversawRelocationProject | Chase Center NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| owns | Golden State Warriors NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalAffiliation | Democratic Party (United States) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | partner at Kleiner Perkins ⓘ |
| residence | Atherton, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sportInvolvedIn | basketball ⓘ |
| teamChampionshipsUnderOwnership |
2015 NBA Finals
NERFINISHED
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2017 NBA Finals NERFINISHED ⓘ 2018 NBA Finals NERFINISHED ⓘ 2022 NBA Finals ⓘ |
| teamRelocatedArena | Golden State Warriors to Chase Center in San Francisco ⓘ |
| title |
co-executive chairman of the Golden State Warriors
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majority owner of the Golden State Warriors ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Joe Lacob Description of subject: Joe Lacob is an American venture capitalist and majority owner of the NBA’s Golden State Warriors, known for overseeing the franchise’s rise into a modern basketball dynasty.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Golden State Warriors