Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji
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Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji is a technology entrepreneur and engineer best known as a co-founder of Databricks, a leading data and AI platform built around Apache Spark.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13425250 — 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: Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji Context triple: [Databricks, foundedBy, Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji]
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A.
Ali Farokhmanesh
Ali Farokhmanesh is a former American college basketball guard best known for his clutch three-point shooting and pivotal role in Northern Iowa’s upset of top-seeded Kansas in the 2010 NCAA Tournament.
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B.
Behzad Farahani
Behzad Farahani is an Iranian actor and playwright known for his significant contributions to Iranian theater and cinema.
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C.
Siavash Teimouri
Siavash Teimouri is an architect best known for his role in designing the Parc des Princes stadium in Paris.
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D.
Mozaffar Karimi
Mozaffar Karimi is an actor known for his role in the film "Rendition."
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E.
Reza Mirkarimi
Reza Mirkarimi is an acclaimed Iranian film director and screenwriter known for his humanistic dramas and significant contributions to contemporary Iranian cinema.
- 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: Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji Target entity description: Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji is a technology entrepreneur and engineer best known as a co-founder of Databricks, a leading data and AI platform built around Apache Spark.
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A.
Ali Farokhmanesh
Ali Farokhmanesh is a former American college basketball guard best known for his clutch three-point shooting and pivotal role in Northern Iowa’s upset of top-seeded Kansas in the 2010 NCAA Tournament.
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B.
Behzad Farahani
Behzad Farahani is an Iranian actor and playwright known for his significant contributions to Iranian theater and cinema.
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C.
Siavash Teimouri
Siavash Teimouri is an architect best known for his role in designing the Parc des Princes stadium in Paris.
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D.
Mozaffar Karimi
Mozaffar Karimi is an actor known for his role in the film "Rendition."
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E.
Reza Mirkarimi
Reza Mirkarimi is an acclaimed Iranian film director and screenwriter known for his humanistic dramas and significant contributions to contemporary Iranian cinema.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
engineer
ⓘ
person ⓘ technology entrepreneur ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Apache Spark community
ⓘ
linked to:
Apache Spark
Silicon Valley startup ecosystem ⓘ |
| basedOn | Apache Spark ⓘ |
| coFounderOf | Databricks ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of California, Berkeley ⓘ |
| employer | Databricks ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy | electrical engineering and computer sciences ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
artificial intelligence
ⓘ
big data ⓘ cloud computing ⓘ data engineering ⓘ |
| hasGivenTalk | technology conferences on data and AI ⓘ |
| hasRole |
executive at Databricks
ⓘ
product leader at Databricks ⓘ |
| industry |
enterprise data platforms
ⓘ
software ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-founding Databricks
ⓘ
work on Apache Spark ecosystem ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | founding team of Databricks ⓘ |
| notableFor | commercializing Apache Spark for enterprises ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Databricks data and AI platform
ⓘ
linked to:
Databricks
|
| occupation |
entrepreneur
ⓘ
software engineer ⓘ technology executive ⓘ |
| worksOn |
cloud-native analytics infrastructure
ⓘ
data and AI platform strategy ⓘ |
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: Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji Description of subject: Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji is a technology entrepreneur and engineer best known as a co-founder of Databricks, a leading data and AI platform built around Apache Spark.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.