Silver Lake Waterman
E184469
Silver Lake Waterman is a growth investment strategy of the private equity firm Silver Lake, focused on providing flexible capital to later-stage technology and technology-enabled businesses.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Silver Lake Waterman canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1622469 — 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: Silver Lake Waterman Context triple: [Silver Lake Partners, hasDivision, Silver Lake Waterman]
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A.
Waterman
Waterman is a historic luxury pen and writing instruments brand known for its high-quality fountain pens and elegant design.
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B.
Blanco
Blanco is a Spanish-language surname most notably associated with Mexican football legend and politician Cuauhtémoc Blanco.
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C.
Lightwater
Lightwater is a village and civil parish in the English county of Surrey, known for its residential character and proximity to heathland and countryside.
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D.
Leach
Leach is the birth surname of classic Hollywood actor Cary Grant, who was born Archibald Alexander Leach.
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E.
Martz
Martz is a surname most notably associated with Mike Martz, an American football coach known for his innovative offensive strategies in the NFL.
- 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: Silver Lake Waterman Target entity description: Silver Lake Waterman is a growth investment strategy of the private equity firm Silver Lake, focused on providing flexible capital to later-stage technology and technology-enabled businesses.
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A.
Waterman
Waterman is a historic luxury pen and writing instruments brand known for its high-quality fountain pens and elegant design.
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B.
Blanco
Blanco is a Spanish-language surname most notably associated with Mexican football legend and politician Cuauhtémoc Blanco.
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C.
Lightwater
Lightwater is a village and civil parish in the English county of Surrey, known for its residential character and proximity to heathland and countryside.
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D.
Leach
Leach is the birth surname of classic Hollywood actor Cary Grant, who was born Archibald Alexander Leach.
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E.
Martz
Martz is a surname most notably associated with Mike Martz, an American football coach known for his innovative offensive strategies in the NFL.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
growth capital platform
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growth investment strategy ⓘ investment strategy ⓘ |
| affiliatedWith | Silver Lake NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
private equity
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technology investing ⓘ |
| capitalStructureFlexibility |
debt
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equity ⓘ hybrid instruments ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
growth investments
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providing flexible capital ⓘ |
| geographicFocus |
Europe
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North America ⓘ global ⓘ |
| hasParentFirmType | private equity firm ⓘ |
| investmentHorizon | medium to long term ⓘ |
| investmentStage | later-stage ⓘ |
| investmentType |
credit-like solutions
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growth capital ⓘ minority investments ⓘ structured equity ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Silver Lake Partners ⓘ |
| partOf | Silver Lake NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| provides |
capital for acquisitions
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capital for expansion ⓘ capital for shareholder liquidity ⓘ flexible financing solutions ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Silver Lake Kraftwerk
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linked to:
Einstürzende Neubauten
Silver Lake Partners ⓘ Silver Lake Sumeru ⓘ |
| sectorFocus |
digital media
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internet ⓘ software ⓘ technology-enabled services ⓘ |
| strategyGoal |
provide non-control capital solutions
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support growth of later-stage technology companies ⓘ |
| targetsIndustry |
technology
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technology-enabled businesses ⓘ |
| typicalUseOfProceeds |
growth initiatives
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strategic acquisitions ⓘ working capital ⓘ |
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: Silver Lake Waterman Description of subject: Silver Lake Waterman is a growth investment strategy of the private equity firm Silver Lake, focused on providing flexible capital to later-stage technology and technology-enabled businesses.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.