Henry Samueli
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Henry Samueli is an American engineer, technology entrepreneur, and philanthropist best known as the co-founder of Broadcom Corporation and a prominent NHL team owner.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Henry Samueli canonical | 19 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T886120 — 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: Henry Samueli Context triple: [Anaheim Ducks, currentOwner, Henry Samueli]
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A.
Eli Yablonovitch
Eli Yablonovitch is an American physicist and engineer renowned as a pioneer of photonic crystals and a leading figure in the field of photonics and optoelectronics.
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B.
Charles M. Vest
Charles M. Vest was an American engineer and educator who served as president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was widely recognized for his leadership in science and engineering policy.
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C.
Michael P. Brenner
Michael P. Brenner is an American applied mathematician and physicist known for his influential work in fluid dynamics and complex systems.
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D.
John K. Minasian
John K. Minasian was an American structural engineer best known for helping design Seattle’s iconic Space Needle.
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E.
Bernard M. Gordon
Bernard M. Gordon is an American engineer, inventor, and philanthropist known for pioneering work in high-speed analog-to-digital conversion and for major contributions to engineering education.
- 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: Henry Samueli Target entity description: Henry Samueli is an American engineer, technology entrepreneur, and philanthropist best known as the co-founder of Broadcom Corporation and a prominent NHL team owner.
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A.
Eli Yablonovitch
Eli Yablonovitch is an American physicist and engineer renowned as a pioneer of photonic crystals and a leading figure in the field of photonics and optoelectronics.
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B.
Charles M. Vest
Charles M. Vest was an American engineer and educator who served as president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was widely recognized for his leadership in science and engineering policy.
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C.
Michael P. Brenner
Michael P. Brenner is an American applied mathematician and physicist known for his influential work in fluid dynamics and complex systems.
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D.
John K. Minasian
John K. Minasian was an American structural engineer best known for helping design Seattle’s iconic Space Needle.
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E.
Bernard M. Gordon
Bernard M. Gordon is an American engineer, inventor, and philanthropist known for pioneering work in high-speed analog-to-digital conversion and for major contributions to engineering education.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
businessperson
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electrical engineer ⓘ human ⓘ philanthropist ⓘ technology entrepreneur ⓘ |
| academicDegree |
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering
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Master of Science in Electrical Engineering ⓘ PhD in Electrical Engineering ⓘ |
| almaMater | University of California, Los Angeles ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
IEEE Fellow
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Marconi Prize ⓘ National Academy of Engineering membership ⓘ |
| coFounded |
Broadcom Corporation
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linked to:
Broadcom
|
| coFounderWith | Henry Nicholas ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1954-09-20 ⓘ |
| donatedTo |
University of California, Irvine
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University of California, Los Angeles ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of California, Los Angeles ⓘ |
| employer |
Broadcom Corporation
ⓘ
linked to:
Broadcom
University of California, Los Angeles ⓘ |
| familyName | Samueli ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
communications engineering
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electrical engineering ⓘ semiconductor industry ⓘ |
| founded | Samueli Foundation ⓘ |
| fullName | Henry Samueli ⓘ |
| givenName | Henry ⓘ |
| hasPhilanthropicFocus |
Jewish community organizations
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engineering education ⓘ health and wellness ⓘ |
| industry |
communications technology
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semiconductors ⓘ |
| leagueOfOwnedTeam | National Hockey League ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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National Academy of Engineering ⓘ |
| namesakeOf |
The Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science at UCLA
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The Henry Samueli School of Engineering at UC Irvine ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | helped grow Broadcom into a leading fabless semiconductor company ⓘ |
| notableWork |
advances in mixed-signal integrated circuits
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development of broadband communications chips ⓘ |
| owns | Anaheim Ducks ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Buffalo, New York, United States
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linked to:
Buffalo
|
| positionHeld |
Chairman of Broadcom Corporation
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Chief Technology Officer of Broadcom Corporation ⓘ Professor of Electrical Engineering at UCLA ⓘ |
| residence | Southern California ⓘ |
| spouse | Susan Samueli ⓘ |
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: Henry Samueli Description of subject: Henry Samueli is an American engineer, technology entrepreneur, and philanthropist best known as the co-founder of Broadcom Corporation and a prominent NHL team owner.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Susan Samueli
subject linked to:
The Henry Samueli School of Engineering at UC Irvine