David Roux
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American businessperson
businessperson
human
investor
private equity firm
research institute
technology investor
David Roux is an American businessman and technology investor best known as a co-founder of the private equity firm Silver Lake Partners.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Roux canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1622432 — 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: David Roux Context triple: [Silver Lake Partners, foundedBy, David Roux]
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A.
Jean Raoux
Jean Raoux was a French painter of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, known for his elegant genre scenes and portraits that bridged the Baroque and Rococo styles.
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B.
Alex Courtes
Alex Courtes is a French director and designer best known for his innovative music videos and visual work with major rock and electronic artists.
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C.
Mark Gastineau
Mark Gastineau is a former American football defensive end best known as a star pass rusher for the New York Jets in the 1980s and a key member of the famed "New York Sack Exchange" defensive line.
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D.
John Sarrao
John Sarrao is an American physicist and scientific leader known for his work in condensed matter physics and for directing major U.S. research institutions, including the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.
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E.
Luc Jobin
Luc Jobin is a Canadian business executive best known for serving as president and CEO of Canadian National Railway and holding senior leadership roles in major international corporations.
- 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: David Roux Target entity description: David Roux is an American businessman and technology investor best known as a co-founder of the private equity firm Silver Lake Partners.
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A.
Jean Raoux
Jean Raoux was a French painter of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, known for his elegant genre scenes and portraits that bridged the Baroque and Rococo styles.
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B.
Alex Courtes
Alex Courtes is a French director and designer best known for his innovative music videos and visual work with major rock and electronic artists.
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C.
Mark Gastineau
Mark Gastineau is a former American football defensive end best known as a star pass rusher for the New York Jets in the 1980s and a key member of the famed "New York Sack Exchange" defensive line.
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D.
John Sarrao
John Sarrao is an American physicist and scientific leader known for his work in condensed matter physics and for directing major U.S. research institutions, including the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.
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E.
Luc Jobin
Luc Jobin is a Canadian business executive best known for serving as president and CEO of Canadian National Railway and holding senior leadership roles in major international corporations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: David Roux Description of subject: David Roux is an American businessman and technology investor best known as a co-founder of the private equity firm Silver Lake Partners.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.