Benoit Dageville
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Benoit Dageville is a French computer scientist and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the cloud data platform company Snowflake.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Benoit Dageville canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T825642 — 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: Benoit Dageville Context triple: [Snowflake, foundedBy, Benoit Dageville]
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A.
Sébastien Jodogne
Sébastien Jodogne is a free software developer best known for creating the open-source medical imaging platform Orthanc and for his significant contributions to open healthcare technologies.
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B.
Paul Thiry
Paul Thiry was a prominent mid-20th-century American architect known as a leading figure of Northwest modernism.
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C.
Bertrand Fagalde
Bertrand Fagalde was a French admiral best known for his leadership of French naval forces during the Battle of Dunkirk in World War II.
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D.
Alexandre De Meyer
Alexandre De Meyer is a music producer known for his work on Kanye West’s influential album "808s & Heartbreak."
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E.
Geert Bourgeois
Geert Bourgeois is a Belgian Flemish nationalist politician and former Minister-President of Flanders, known as a founding figure and key leader of the New Flemish Alliance (N-VA).
- 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: Benoit Dageville Target entity description: Benoit Dageville is a French computer scientist and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the cloud data platform company Snowflake.
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A.
Sébastien Jodogne
Sébastien Jodogne is a free software developer best known for creating the open-source medical imaging platform Orthanc and for his significant contributions to open healthcare technologies.
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B.
Paul Thiry
Paul Thiry was a prominent mid-20th-century American architect known as a leading figure of Northwest modernism.
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C.
Bertrand Fagalde
Bertrand Fagalde was a French admiral best known for his leadership of French naval forces during the Battle of Dunkirk in World War II.
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D.
Alexandre De Meyer
Alexandre De Meyer is a music producer known for his work on Kanye West’s influential album "808s & Heartbreak."
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E.
Geert Bourgeois
Geert Bourgeois is a Belgian Flemish nationalist politician and former Minister-President of Flanders, known as a founding figure and key leader of the New Flemish Alliance (N-VA).
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French person
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businessperson ⓘ company founder ⓘ computer scientist ⓘ entrepreneur ⓘ |
| activeIn | 21st century ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Silicon Valley tech ecosystem ⓘ |
| citizenship | France ⓘ |
| coFounded |
Snowflake Inc.
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linked to:
Snowflake Data Cloud
|
| designed |
Snowflake architecture
ⓘ
linked to:
Snowflake Data Cloud
|
| educatedIn | France ⓘ |
| education | PhD in computer science ⓘ |
| employer |
Snowflake Inc.
ⓘ
linked to:
Snowflake Data Cloud
|
| field |
cloud computing
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computer science ⓘ database systems ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasRole |
product leader
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technical co-founder ⓘ |
| industry |
cloud data warehousing
ⓘ
information technology ⓘ |
| knownFor | co-founding Snowflake ⓘ |
| language |
English
ⓘ
French ⓘ |
| name | Benoit Dageville ⓘ |
| nationality | France ⓘ |
| notableFor |
advocacy of cloud-native database design
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advocacy of separating storage and compute in data warehousing ⓘ |
| notableWork | development of a multi-cluster shared data architecture for Snowflake ⓘ |
| occupation |
co-founder of Snowflake Inc.
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software engineer ⓘ technology executive ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Chief Technology Officer of Snowflake Inc.
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linked to:
Chief Technical Architect at Snowflake Inc.
President of Products at Snowflake Inc. ⓘ |
| previousEmployer | Oracle Corporation ⓘ |
| specializesIn |
cloud-native data platforms
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data warehousing ⓘ massively parallel processing databases ⓘ |
| workedOn |
Oracle parallel database systems
ⓘ
linked to:
Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC)
Snowflake cloud data platform ⓘ
linked to:
Snowflake Data Cloud
|
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: Benoit Dageville Description of subject: Benoit Dageville is a French computer scientist and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the cloud data platform company Snowflake.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.