Marc Benioff
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Marc Benioff is an American billionaire entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of cloud software company Salesforce.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Marc Benioff canonical | 21 |
| Marc Russell Benioff | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T40512 — 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: Marc Benioff Context triple: [Time, owner, Marc Benioff]
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A.
Mitchell Kapor
Mitchell Kapor is an American entrepreneur and software pioneer best known for founding Lotus Development Corporation and co-creating the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet, as well as for his philanthropy and advocacy in technology and civil liberties.
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B.
Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg is an American technology entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as the co-founder and CEO of Facebook (now Meta Platforms).
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C.
Marc Andreessen
Marc Andreessen is an American entrepreneur, software engineer, and venture capitalist best known as the co-creator of the Mosaic web browser and co-founder of Netscape and the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.
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D.
Edward Zuckerberg
Edward Zuckerberg is an American dentist and technology enthusiast best known as the father of Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg.
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E.
Andrew S. Grove
Andrew S. Grove was a Hungarian-American engineer, businessman, and longtime Intel CEO who played a pivotal role in shaping the modern semiconductor industry and personal computing.
- 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: Marc Benioff Target entity description: Marc Benioff is an American billionaire entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of cloud software company Salesforce.
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A.
Mitchell Kapor
Mitchell Kapor is an American entrepreneur and software pioneer best known for founding Lotus Development Corporation and co-creating the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet, as well as for his philanthropy and advocacy in technology and civil liberties.
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B.
Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg is an American technology entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as the co-founder and CEO of Facebook (now Meta Platforms).
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C.
Marc Andreessen
Marc Andreessen is an American entrepreneur, software engineer, and venture capitalist best known as the co-creator of the Mosaic web browser and co-founder of Netscape and the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.
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D.
Edward Zuckerberg
Edward Zuckerberg is an American dentist and technology enthusiast best known as the father of Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg.
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E.
Andrew S. Grove
Andrew S. Grove was a Hungarian-American engineer, businessman, and longtime Intel CEO who played a pivotal role in shaping the modern semiconductor industry and personal computing.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
billionaire
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business executive ⓘ entrepreneur ⓘ human ⓘ philanthropist ⓘ |
| advocatesFor |
LGBTQ+ rights
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equal pay ⓘ homelessness solutions in San Francisco ⓘ |
| authored |
Behind the Cloud
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Trailblazer ⓘ |
| boardMemberOf | Salesforce ⓘ |
| businessModelPioneerOf | cloud computing software-as-a-service (SaaS) ⓘ |
| coFounded | Salesforce ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1964-09-25 ⓘ |
| degree | Bachelor of Science in Business Administration ⓘ |
| donatedTo |
UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland
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surface form:
UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals
University of California, San Francisco ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Southern California ⓘ |
| education | University of Southern California ⓘ |
| employer | Salesforce ⓘ |
| familyName | Benioff ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy | business administration ⓘ |
| founded |
Benioff Ocean Initiative
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Salesforce (through family philanthropy) ⓘ
surface form:
Salesforce Foundation
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| fullName |
Marc Benioff
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Marc Russell Benioff
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| gender | male ⓘ |
| genreOfWriting | business literature ⓘ |
| givenName | Marc ⓘ |
| hasNetWorthStatus | billionaire ⓘ |
| knownFor |
advocacy for stakeholder capitalism
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philanthropy in healthcare and education ⓘ promoting software as a service business model ⓘ |
| memberOf | Business Roundtable ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | co-founding Salesforce ⓘ |
| notableWork | development of Salesforce CRM platform ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessperson
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entrepreneur ⓘ philanthropist ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
San Francisco
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surface form:
San Francisco, California, United States
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| positionHeld |
chairman of Salesforce
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chief executive officer of Salesforce ⓘ vice president at Oracle Corporation ⓘ |
| previousEmployer | Oracle Corporation ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| residence |
San Francisco
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surface form:
San Francisco, California, United States
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| spouse | Lynne Benioff ⓘ |
| supports |
Democratic Party
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surface form:
Democratic Party (United States)
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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: Marc Benioff Description of subject: Marc Benioff is an American billionaire entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of cloud software company Salesforce.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Marc Russell Benioff