Thomas Siebel
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Thomas Siebel is an American technology entrepreneur best known as the founder of Siebel Systems and later the cloud computing company C3.ai.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Thomas Siebel canonical | 4 |
| Thomas M. Siebel | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1015788 — 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: Thomas Siebel Context triple: [Siebel Systems, foundedBy, Thomas Siebel]
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A.
Leonard Bosack
Leonard Bosack is an American computer engineer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of Cisco Systems, a pioneering company in computer networking and internet infrastructure.
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B.
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.
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C.
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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D.
Edward Samuel Rogers Jr.
Edward Samuel Rogers Jr. was a prominent Canadian businessman and media executive who led Rogers Communications, one of Canada’s largest telecommunications and media companies.
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E.
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.
- 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: Thomas Siebel Target entity description: Thomas Siebel is an American technology entrepreneur best known as the founder of Siebel Systems and later the cloud computing company C3.ai.
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A.
Leonard Bosack
Leonard Bosack is an American computer engineer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of Cisco Systems, a pioneering company in computer networking and internet infrastructure.
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B.
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.
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C.
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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D.
Edward Samuel Rogers Jr.
Edward Samuel Rogers Jr. was a prominent Canadian businessman and media executive who led Rogers Communications, one of Canada’s largest telecommunications and media companies.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
businessperson
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company founder ⓘ human ⓘ technology entrepreneur ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
David Packard Award
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Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award ⓘ |
| boardMemberOf |
Hoover Institution Board of Overseers
ⓘ
linked to:
Hoover Institution
University of Illinois Foundation ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Chicago Booth School of Business
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University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign ⓘ |
| employer |
C3.ai
ⓘ
Oracle Corporation ⓘ Siebel Systems ⓘ |
| familyName | Siebel ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
artificial intelligence
ⓘ
cloud computing ⓘ customer relationship management ⓘ enterprise software ⓘ |
| founded |
C3.ai
ⓘ
Siebel Energy Institute ⓘ Siebel Systems ⓘ |
| genre | business literature ⓘ |
| givenName | Thomas ⓘ |
| hasPublished | Digital Transformation: Survive and Thrive in an Era of Mass Extinction ⓘ |
| hasRole | philanthropist ⓘ |
| industry |
artificial intelligence industry
ⓘ
cloud computing industry ⓘ software industry ⓘ |
| knownFor |
advocacy of digital transformation
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founding C3.ai ⓘ founding Siebel Systems ⓘ work in customer relationship management software ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
ⓘ
Business Council (United States) ⓘ
linked to:
The Business Council
|
| notableProject |
development of CRM software at Siebel Systems
ⓘ
enterprise AI applications at C3.ai ⓘ |
| notableWork | Digital Transformation: Survive and Thrive in an Era of Mass Extinction ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
ⓘ
business executive ⓘ entrepreneur ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
chief executive officer of C3.ai
ⓘ
chief executive officer of Siebel Systems ⓘ founder of C3.ai ⓘ founder of Siebel Systems ⓘ |
| residence |
California
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linked to:
California, United States
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: Thomas Siebel Description of subject: Thomas Siebel is an American technology entrepreneur best known as the founder of Siebel Systems and later the cloud computing company C3.ai.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Thomas Siebel