Larry Ellison
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Larry Ellison is an American billionaire entrepreneur and co-founder of Oracle Corporation, known for his major influence in the software industry and high-profile philanthropic and business activities.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Larry Ellison canonical | 31 |
| Lawrence J. Ellison | 2 |
| Lawrence Joseph Ellison | 2 |
| Executive Chairman of Oracle Corporation | 1 |
| Larry Ellison (through Oracle racing syndicate) | 1 |
| Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T57096 — 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: Larry Ellison Context triple: [The Giving Pledge, hasNotableSignatory, Larry Ellison]
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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.
Marc Benioff
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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C.
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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D.
Stephen D. Bechtel Jr.
Stephen D. Bechtel Jr. was an American engineer and business executive who led the Bechtel Corporation into becoming one of the world’s largest engineering and construction firms and was widely recognized for his contributions to industry and public service.
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E.
Larry Page
Larry Page is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and former CEO of Google and its parent company Alphabet Inc.
- 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: Larry Ellison Target entity description: Larry Ellison is an American billionaire entrepreneur and co-founder of Oracle Corporation, known for his major influence in the software industry and high-profile philanthropic and business activities.
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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.
Marc Benioff
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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C.
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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D.
Stephen D. Bechtel Jr.
Stephen D. Bechtel Jr. was an American engineer and business executive who led the Bechtel Corporation into becoming one of the world’s largest engineering and construction firms and was widely recognized for his contributions to industry and public service.
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E.
Larry Page
Larry Page is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and former CEO of Google and its parent company Alphabet Inc.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
billionaire
ⓘ
businessperson ⓘ entrepreneur ⓘ human ⓘ philanthropist ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award ⓘ |
| coFounderOf | Oracle Corporation ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| dateOfBirth | 1944-08-17 ⓘ |
| education |
University of Chicago
ⓘ
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign ⓘ |
| employer | Oracle Corporation ⓘ |
| familyName | Ellison ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cloud computing
ⓘ
database technology ⓘ software industry ⓘ |
| founderOf | Oracle Corporation ⓘ |
| fullName |
Lawrence Joseph Ellison
ⓘ
linked to:
Larry Ellison
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Lawrence ⓘ |
| industry |
enterprise software
ⓘ
information technology ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Oracle Corporation
ⓘ
enterprise software industry influence ⓘ relational database software ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| netWorthRanking | one of the richest people in the world ⓘ |
| notableFor |
aggressive business strategy
ⓘ
high-profile lifestyle ⓘ |
| notableWork | development of Oracle Database ⓘ |
| occupation |
business executive
ⓘ
investor ⓘ software entrepreneur ⓘ |
| ownerOf | Oracle Team USA ⓘ |
| owns | majority of the island of Lanai ⓘ |
| philanthropy |
Larry Ellison Foundation
ⓘ
education-related donations ⓘ medical research donations ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
New York
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| positionHeld |
Chief Executive Officer of Oracle Corporation
ⓘ
Chief Technology Officer of Oracle Corporation ⓘ Executive Chairman of Oracle Corporation ⓘ
linked to:
Larry Ellison
|
| residence |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
Hawaii ⓘ Lanai ⓘ
linked to:
Lānaʻi
|
| sportsInterest | sailing ⓘ |
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: Larry Ellison Description of subject: Larry Ellison is an American billionaire entrepreneur and co-founder of Oracle Corporation, known for his major influence in the software industry and high-profile philanthropic and business activities.
Referenced by (38)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Larry Ellison
linked to: Larry Ellison
linked to: Larry Ellison
subject linked to:
Lawrence
subject linked to:
USA 17 trimaran
linked to: Larry Ellison
subject linked to:
2013 America’s Cup
subject linked to:
2013 America’s Cup
subject linked to:
board of directors of Oracle Corporation
linked to: Larry Ellison
subject linked to:
board of directors of Oracle Corporation
linked to: Larry Ellison